Actually ttbn it is not as hot close to the equator, as there is more evaporation to keep it cool. Most of Oz is hotter, when the breeze comes out of our central desert. This is why Adelaide has some very high temperatures, & why SE Queensland had a few high 30s recently, with westerlies.

I spent 6 years within 600 miles of the equator, & never saw a temperature above 32. Of course it was very humid, so if working you would sweet a lot. I would go through a number of head bands to keep the sweet out of my eyes. My office was air conditioned, but I rarely saw it.

Nights were the problem, with minimum temperatures of 24 all year, you needed an air flow to sleep. High islands with a spine of ranges above 5000 Ft are great. They generate a land breeze at night, with cool drifting down from the heights & out to sea.

It is the doldrums, so not much breeze otherwise, & a mechanically generated one is required, but it is a great place to live.

IN studies I see relating to climate change, I see repeatedly something about the "island effect" ( hope I'm getting the term right). Basically with all the data for climiteologists change is a factor they are trying to compensate for, which is that in developed areas like cities, and around cities, the tempatures are higher then areas away from cities.

Over and over I hear about needing to adjust the pridictions said of climite change because this factor of higher temperatures near cities harms the reliability of climate change data.

Based on this I think a growing focus to make the tempatures better should be on city development to include more areas in it to be heat sinks for that city. More parks maybe? I don't know what would compensate for large buildings, paved roads, and concrete everywhere; all of which change the local enviornment and cause more heat in the local area. But if anyone is worried about hotter days to come, perhaps city development projects should be part of the issues discussed. CO2 is not the only thing that man does to change the enviornment, but it is the only factor focused on with climate change and global warming. If anyone wants to really make a change then scrap the unreliability of climite change theatrics "the end is near," and instead focus on real enviornmental issues and studies that deal with changing our enviornments, reducing pollution, as well as focusing on solutions for water needs. City development with the focus of reducing the island effect for heat would fit into those issues that are noticed but ignored by climate change scientists.

A lot of land is drying out because too much rainwater runs off too quickly before there is time for it to be absorbed. We need to store way more water than we do presently. Recharge the aquifers as much as possible & harness built-up area run-off. More dams are a no-brainer !
Get the theorists out of the way & let the pragmatists run the show. Problem solved !

By golly, the climate crooks have a lot to answer for with their non-stop scare-mongering and the effect it has had on believe-anything people like Nathan.

Hasbeen,

I'm not unfamiliar with the topics, and I'll stick with with 32 degree dry heat over the same with high humidity any day. In fact, I will stick with the weeks of 40 plus my part of the world is heading for this summer over the tropics any day. That's if the bumholes don't keep upping the price of power, while lying that the price is coming down!

I received another couple of sheets of totally incomprehensible garbage from AGL the other day trying to convince me just how kind and fair that their and the government's trashing of our electricity market is.

Here's a list of just some Liberal politicians calling themselves 'moderates' thinking that they are hiding the fact that they are actually Leftists: Tim Wilson, Dave Sharma, Jason Falinski, Kaye Allen, Angie Bell, and Trent Zimmerman.

These Leftists - over whom Morrison clearly has no control - have signed up to a mob calling itself Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action Group. This mob also has the likes of extreme Leftists Ged Kearny, Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie in it.

Conservatives beware: if you continue voting Liberal these days, you might as well vote Labor or Greens

Nathan,

As a kid, I moved from Wagga to Darwin. I didn't miss the sub-zero temperatures riding to school during the winter. And got used to the humidity in Darwin, and eventually loved the place.

You adapt. You get used to it. The half-degree rise in Adelaide's maximum-ever from 1939 to this year is evidence of warming, at least around Adelaide, perhaps from the much larger heat-island effect, perhaps from extra CO2 in the atmosphere, perhaps from natural causes. It would be nice if we could differentiate each of those contributors, and perhaps many others.

Joe