Thank you Ebbie, much appreciated.

and in the meantime, those pop psychofabulators applying complex pre-emptive psychology to analyse the motives of someone making an argument can in itself be a form of projection.

But what the hell.

Since 1960 the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 °C . The long term trend in temperature is clear, but there is still substantial year to year variability of about plus/minus 0.5 °C.
Some areas have experienced a warming of 1.5 to 2 ºC over the last 50 years. Warming has occurred in all seasons, however the strongest warming has occurred in spring (about 0.9 °C) and the weakest in
summer (about 0.4 °C).

• The number of days with record hot temperatures has increased each decade over the past 50 years
• There have been fewer record cold days each decade
• 2000 to 2009 was Australia's warmest decade on record

- source: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology which has been observing and reporting on weather in Australia for over 100 years, and the CSIRO which has been conducting atmospheric and marine research for over 60 years.


all the best,

freda