Today's my day off.
But I'm trapped in the study as a heat wave beats down. The study is a very small
room in our very small apartment. But
the only room that our even smaller air conditioner can handle cooling on this
44oC and rising day. So instead of going shopping, to yoga, for a swim or a walk – I'm writing about climate
change!
Not that I need do the writing, actually. Because an excellent bunch of scientists
from the Australian Bureau of Metereology (or the BOM as I like to call them as
in “it’s da BOMb”) have done the writing for me here. But as they are scientists, writing in an age
where being a scientist seems to be a license for people to persecute you, the article is not super short nor snappy. So, the summary (with some ‘colour’ from me)
is:
- The first two weeks of January 2013 now hold the records for the hottest Australian day on record, the hottest two-day period on record, the hottest three-day period, the hottest four-day period and, so on up to the hottest 14 day period on record (for Australia-wide average daily temperatures)
