I would like to see how the climate change alarmists explain why a record set back in 1906, before the heavy infux of industry, before sealed roads, before high rise buildings, before multiple cars on the road, etc etc still sat ds fast today, when the sky is apparently falling in.

It really makes you wonder if this climate change stuff really is just a money making myth.

The warmist brigade have shot themselves in the foot on many occasions. Obviously the journo who wrote the story is a warmist.

The wheels have fallen off the little red global warming wagon because of exaggeration, corruption of data and outrageous predictions.

Take the ramblings of Flannery for example. I recall PM Rudd, shortly before he left with his entourage to Copenhagen, claiming that a few hot days in Adelaide was proof of global warming.

Most people now realize 'we was had' and quite a few made a lot of money from the scam.

I accept that the climate does change but humans have nothing to do with it, the changes are beyond our influence. Bit like earthquakes or the tides.

yes..if only the numbers reflected what the new WORLD CURREncy[carbon credit czars]..NEED*..what to..do..

HIT PAUSE..[REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT COSTS]..

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/26/the-pause-of-global-warming-risks-destroying-the-reputation-of-science/

REMOVE DANGEROUS INPUTS..[REVEALING THE PART OF THE STORY THAT MAY..BE Inconvenient?]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/28/el-nino-sea-monitoring-system-may-fail-half-dead-already/

NOAA lost 10% of their US temperature readings between 2012 and 2013. At the current rate of decline, the US will no longer have a climate by early next decade.

US Climate Should Be Gone By 2020
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/us-climate-should-be-gone-by-2020/

TOO EASY..Forget tweaking or sexing up the data
loose it..OR FAKE IT till they can tax the very beath we exhale

YET ANOTHER Inconvenient study
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/28/inconvenient-study-arctic-was-warmer-than-the-present-during-the-medieval-warm-period/

10 degrees/below..yet they claim...no snow
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/with-russia-10c-below-normal-climate-geniuses-announce-that-global-warming-threatens-the-winter-olympics/

ALL GORE'S REAL AGENDA
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Al_Gore%3A_Africa_needs_%E2%80%9Cfertility_management%E2%80%9D_to_prevent_overpopulation_and_%E2%80%9Cextreme_weather%E2%80%9D/32431/0/38/38/Y/M.html

its not over fishing..its global warming
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/science-technology/global-warming-making-fish-suppers-3086598

met orifice GOT IT WRONG 13 YEArs out of 14
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547950/Weather-expert-accuses-Met-Office-warm-bias-getting-annual-predictions-wrong-13-14-years.html

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/climategate.php

Dear Yuyutsu,

Here is the link to the actual story.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/city-hits-10-days-of-40s-on-a-run/story-e6frg8y6-1226816202393#

I probably could have worn “City hits 10 days of 40s on a run” if they were talking about the number of 40 plus degree days over the summer. But then they go on to say “Adelaide, which had its 10th consecutive day over 40C”. Fail!

As an attack on sloppy journalism Joe's post stands, but then again this has been pretty standard fare from the one of the most biased, inaccurate rags in the country. What does not stand is using it to attack those who know Global Warming is a scientific fact and who seek to highlight the implications it presents for our future.

The two journalists do not mention climate change in the article. Theirs was a story about a bunch of scorchers this summer, nothing more. No debate on why we might be seeing such high temperatures, just reporting on the hot weather. Both work for a newspaper who has taken an almost fervent stance against the notion of global warming. But you lot are up in arms about it. How dare they you chant in unison! So any reporting about a hot summer is warmist claptrap? Just think about that for a moment. Are you guys so defensive about your stance that it is a hanging offence for even the Australian to mention exceptionally hot weather? You really do have it bad don't you.

Actually I need to concede Joe didn't raise GW in his post though perhaps more by accident than design. This could well have just been about sloppy reporting but you have chosen to tie it into the GW debate, with little justification.

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So sloppy reporting aside let's get down to brass tacks.

In the summer of 1905-6 there were 10 days of plus 40 degree days in Adelaide.
http://tinyurl.com/k8fthlu

6 in January and 4 in February.

This summer 2013-14 there have also been 10 days of 40 plus temperatures.
http://tinyurl.com/l4htu25 (Click year at top of table to get 2013 data).

2 in December, 6 in January and thus far 2 in February.

The average of the plus 40 days for the summer of 1905-6? 41.7 degrees.

The average of the plus 40 days for the summer of 2013-14? 43.3 degrees.

Averages aside, anyone going to bet their house that Adelaide doesn't post another 40+ day this month to break the absolute record?

Tell you what, I'm happy to put a hundred bucks up, to a charity of the others choice, for a bet that Adelaide will experience another 40 plus day to to set a new record this summer, any takers? First come first served.

Finally can we at least now agree that anything coming from The Australian has to be taken with a rather large grain of salt. I know that for ages this has been the go to source for many of you deniers, but you really must face facts, its a shocker.

There is more to global warming than a few hot days. You should be more concerned about the rising sea levels. You have to be in a bad way to read the Australian.