Struth, the ignoramuses are really out in force tonight! Criticising the ABC for a claim it didn't make, and getting sillier from there on in!

If you ask any climate scientist about the hot weather, they'll tell you that although global warming will increase the frequency and severity of extreme hot weather events, that doesn't mean that particular events can be directly attributed to global warming.

Global warming may cause localised cooling in some regions due to changes in ocean currents - indeed that's one of the reasons for the lack of resistance to the neocons' insistence on using the "less threatening" term climate change. But AIUI the only gw induced cooling predicted for Australia is that directly caused by tropical cyclones!

It sounds like what's happened is a cold front's been through. These frequently involve the temperature literally dropping 10ºC in ten minutes, so a 14ºC downward change in daily maxima is unremarkable even on adjacent days, let alone with a day in between.

more precisely : do you think the GW theory is about a cloud of cO2?

//What I want to know is that if we had a lot of CO2 in the air, making it so hot on Thursday, where the hell did all that CO2 go, to allow it to be so cold today?//

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

no now that the temperatures have proved the warmist wrong the heat is now hiding in the oceans. Fairytale upon fairytale.

Love these doomsday experts, if something happened in the past it will happen in the future, very scientific.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/australia-has-a-history-of-being-hit-by-tsunami-and-it-could-happen-again/news-story/b18d7090efc145937cf15dd94a43fe8c

Australia has a history of being hit by tsunami and it could happen again

WHILE Australia is seen as a geologically stable continent, experts have revealed Australia is at risk of a devastating tsunami.

WHILE Australia is seen as a nation largely immune from the risks of earthquakes, experts have revealed that Australia is susceptible to a devastating tsunami.

Given that more than 85 per cent of Australians live within 50km of the coast, the consequences could be devastating.

Geoscience academics say tsunamis have reached Australia multiple times in the past century, lashed by waves caused by earthquakes as far away as South America.

“In 1960 a large earthquake happened in Chile and we recorded tsunami waves in Sydney,” University of Newcastle coastal science senior lecturer Hannah Power said. “You know how far away Chile is?”

Her research has led to detailed modelling of tsunami risk and flooding in Australia.

Ms Power pointed to tsunami activity in Sydney in the 1960s.

“In 1968, the operators of the Glebe Island Bridge reported unusual currents and sailors at Middle Head in Sydney reported unusually large waves,” she said.

Speaking to Australian Geographic, tsunami expert Ted Bryant said there was evidence of “monumental” tsunamis over the past 10,000 years washing over Sydney Head, which protects the harbour, and mega waves washing reaching the Blue Mountains.

Ms Power was reluctant to agree with Bryant’s hypothesis.

“The data used to come up with those hypotheses is based on sediment that, he infers, was placed there by historical placements,” she said. “There’s some uncertainty around that.”

HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF TSUNAMIS IN AUSTRALIA

Historical evidence uncovers a story of thousands of tsunamis hitting Australian shores and washing over Sydney Heads, the imposing headlands that border Sydney Harbour.

Earthquake and volcanic activity in neighbouring regions such as New Zealand and Indonesia has triggered tsunamis travelling to Australia in the past.

//the heat is now hiding in the oceans//

If it's hiding, how do they know it's there?