Australia records fourth-warmest year in 2020, despite La Niña

Climate scientist says another top 10 year is a ‘no shit, Sherlock’ moment, as temperatures across the country were 1.15C above average

Last year was the fourth warmest on record for Australia, continuing a run of record warm years over the past decade, according to provisional data released by the Bureau of Meteorology.

Across the country, temperatures in 2020 were 1.15C higher than average, putting the year behind 2005, 2013 and 2019, which remains the hottest year on record.

https://www.desmogblog.com website… See, It’s cooling already. Sydney is freezing in the middle of summer. Mind you, the other side of the country/continent is baking in the sun… One can argue and postulate that in the next decade the temperature will increase by about 0.5 degrees Celsius, bringing the figure at about 1.9 degrees above average by 2030. By 2050 the trend which is accelerating according to the laws of bad luck, will be 2.5 above average and by 2100 (5 decades beyond this) the average temperature gaining 0.6 degrees per decade will be, wait for it, 5.5 degrees Celsius above average or 4.35 above present temperatures. Happy cycling. At 3 degrees above average, the poles and Greenland melt about 30 times faster than present rate. See level rise: 1.5 metres by 2100. If you live in Bangladesh or in New York, buy some big boots. Some scientists are doing some estimates that aren’t too bad: By the end of this anthropologic warming, SHOULD WE STOP RELEASING MORE GREENHOUSE GASES (CO2, methane and NOx) today or tomorrow, the problems will be half of what was there in the mid Cretaceous — that is to say sea level will be at 28.75 metres above present by 2359. Should we carry on with our emissions, god knows how high this is going to go, as god is not very clued about such things as biblical floods. We know that sea level can rise at least 75 metres with a full blown warming and this is no shit. But we can calculate and we will know by 2032, what full crap we’re facing..." target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/01/australia-records-fourth-warmest-year-in-2020-despite-la-nina


This is small potatoes would say most denialists. What’s 0.33 degrees Celsius per ten years between friends? And this article in The Guardian comes from Graham Readfearn who runs, or is part of, the https://www.desmogblog.com website… So there. 

See! It’s cooling already. Sydney is freezing (22 to 29 degrees Celsius) in the middle of summer. Mind you, the other side of the country/continent is baking in the sun (38-45)… One can argue and postulate that in the next decade the temperature will increase by about 0.5 degrees Celsius, bringing the figure at about 1.9 degrees above average by 2030. By 2050 the trend which is accelerating according to the laws of bad luck, will be 2.5 above average, and by 2100 (5 decades beyond this) the average temperature gaining 0.6 degrees per decade will be, wait for it, 5.5 degrees Celsius above average — or 4.35 above present average temperatures. Happy cycling. At 3 degrees Celsius above average, the poles and Greenland melt about 35 times faster than present rate. Sea level rise: 1.5 metres by 2100. If you live in Bangladesh or in New York, buy some big boots. And please don't mention the weather...

Some scientists are doing some estimates that aren’t too bad: By the end of this anthropologic warming, SHOULD WE STOP RELEASING MORE GREENHOUSE GASES (CO2, methane and NOx) today or tomorrow, the problems will be half of what was there in the mid Cretaceous — that is to say sea level will settle at 28.75 metres above present by 2359. Should we carry on with our emissions, god knows how high this is going to go, as god is not very clued about such things as biblical floods. We know that sea level can rise at least 75 metres with a full blown warming and this is no shit. But WE, humans, can calculate and we will know by 2025 or by 2032, what full crap we’re facing...