Hasbeen,
Considering 2016 was the hottest year on record, such a drop doesn't have the significance you think it has. But I'm curious to know where you got that figure from, as it doesn't seem to be on the NASA website yet.

>There is real proof that CO2 can not cause anything like the effect claimed by the IPPC
Source?

When someone posts an article,
replete with fake knowledge and no understanding,
it is best to smile,
or chuckle loudly,
and totally ignore the posting.

Peter Smith's article sums up the long term trickery of the climate crooks; how the science was never “settled”, and how new 'science’ is introduced each time nature refuses to comply with with the models and predictions.

I added that we are in the grip of mass hysteria of the kind better suited to the Dark Ages. People have stopped thinking for themselves, and people who don't think for themselves don't think at all.

Our useless political class keeps throwing our money at the myth because they find it easier to roll over rather than fight. The are ‘getting the price of electricity down’ even though our bills clearly show that they are doing no such thing. In the last few days, an aluminium producer had to close down and wait until there was sufficient power for them to restart. We continue to export coal to India and China so that they can build and operate HELE coal-powered stations while we play, like children, with windmills and hope the sun keeps shining; and we subsidise rent-seekers on top of their gouging prices for delivering inefficient, unreliable electricity.

There seems to be no end to the skullduggery. If one leftist hoax doesn’t work, they simply invent another one.

And, while all this expensive, detrimental to Australia's economy, lunacy proceeds, the inept energy minister, Freydenberg (chief fantasist on reducing electricity prices) is arguing with his fellow 'conservatives’ (Guardian talk for anyone slightly to the right of Karl Marx) about emissions targets. If Australia emitted nothing, it would not make an iota of difference to the climate or temperatures. Even Australia's chief scientist acknowledges that, you science-lovers.

Aidan do your own research you lazy coot, it will do you good.

Do a decent job of it & it just may stop you continuing to be a "useful idiot".

Just to help there were 167 peer reviewed papers published in Germany alone last year. Go have a look.

Nice rain in Adelaide, despite Tim Flannery. Life goes on. Hot dry summers, cool wet winters. Just the same as it has always has been. Just the same as it will continue to be, with a few minor variations most people forget from year to year.

The Liberals had their little get together over the weekend. The 'vital' things for the hoi polloi membership: shifting our embassy to Jerusalem and privatising the ABC. Both motions carried but sneered at by co-'dicktators' Turnbull, Morrison and Bishop.

Not a word about the hideous cost of electricity, subsidising windmill and sunshine crooks, or Chinese bribery of politicians. Not that was publicised, anyway.