Fluffus clouds passing low through the city of Sydney, like "fog" patches. Unlike fog though, fluffus clouds are low altitude dependant, are not at ground level and are not dispersed by windy conditions. Picture by Gus Leonisky

 

It's more than time for climate denialists to admit that the surface of the planet is warming up, despite a few snowflakes presently falling in some parts of Japan... The temperature in Moscow is around 9 degrees Celsius above January-average though it could (or not) become bitterly cold tomorrow with minus 30 or so... Let's see.

New types of clouds have appeared in our Sydney skies. Gus calls these "Fluffus". Fluffus are a type of fractus cloud. Fractus clouds are unshaped cloudy water vapour about to turn into either cumulus or stratus, often seen below stratus... But fluffus stay fluffus all day long or disappear as the temperature goes up. They often stream silently across during the night pushed by a very thin layer of wind about 100 metres above ground... Fluffus are unshaped non-transparent water vapour puffs at low level in the atmosphere, mostly under a clear sky. The clear sky is due to the atmosphere above not being saturated despite higher water vapour content than average. 
I believe the measurement of dew points at various altitude levels above "fluffus" would indicate a warmer temperature than average. Science would soon tell us that CO2 is part of this process. 
Add a tiny amount of detergent in a bowl of water and the "normal" surface tension of water disappear (this characteristic can be used to catch fruit flies: add vinegar to water and a dollop of detergent in a bowl and Bob's your uncle. The flies are attracted by the vinegar, but the detergented water has no "surface tension" and the flies sink. Without detergent in the water, most insects, including fruit flies can "walk" on the surface as if it was concrete). 
Add a tiny amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and it changes the dew point significantly enough. 
The dew point is the water condensation level resultant from the combination of pressure, concentration of water vapour (humidity) and temperature in the atmosphere.
CO2 does not add to pressure nor the humidity (except indirectly) but slightly raises the temperature level at which water vapour becomes "cloudy". In return this increase of temperature can often increase the level of water evaporation, itself leading to formation of cloudy vapour (or not). The higher the temperature, the more water vapour the atmosphere can contain without turning it into clouds. In this case we often end up with clear skies, with a higher than average temperature level and a higher humidity. For example Sydney today at 11:43 is presently 28.6 degrees Celsius (about 2.5 degrees Celsius above average) with a 66 per cent humidity making it "feel Like" 31.2. There were "fluffus" coming from the North-East earlier in the day. They soon vanished under the extra heat. Blue skies. The minimum overnight temperatures have already been 4 degrees Celsius above average and the maximum daytime temperature has been staying at least 2 degrees Celsius above long term average. 
And it's not going to cool down. 
It's likely that not a single day of January in this year of grace 2015, will reach below long term average. This "anomaly" is likely to continue through February, March, April... Etc. You know your months of the year from your old 2014 Leunig calendar (an announcement was made on Leunig's website: “Fairfax have decided not to produce a Leunig calendar for 2015..." but they did one anyway   http://www.theageshop.com.au/leunig2015) . 
Further south, South Australia and Victoria are presently experiencing the horrendous conditions in which bush-fires are born: strong winds, high temperature (above 40) and low humidity — all under clear skies. So far several houses have burned and the prognosis is grim, even for Tasmania, yet again...We all remember these pictures of a family huddled together in water under a jetty when a glowing-red bush-fire was passing through above. 
Our Primal Minster Tony Abbott, like most (99.99 %) Liberals (CONservatives) is a climate denialist (mostly fantasist) so he can help his mates — the carbon diggers/burners. Or whateverers. "Coal is the future of humanity" says Tony without blinking. He means it or we are supposed to believe he means it... He could not care less.
One Gus could say Tony is an idiot but far from it (though I could mean it). He is a liar with the conscience of a thief. Tony Abbott is a deliberate scientific ignoramus. His "direct action plan" to mitigate "global warming" (which he does not "believe" in) is seriously designed to pay back, under the cover of a climate scheme, to his mates — the carbon dioxide producers especially in the energy sector — all the penalties they were "punished" with (for good reasons) by Labor's Carbon Pricing policy — which worked well to reduce Australia's emission of CO2 — despite claims to the contrary by Tony's henchmen... Idiots and deliberate ignoramuses.
So what could make Tony Abbott revert to a Carbon pricing policy and admit he was wrong on this subject?... Well, not even his own house burning down in a firestorm, not even a new average of four degrees Celsius above the present and not even a record of high temperature in Sydney going from 45.8 to 49 degrees Celsius would help him change his mind. He is determined to be an ignorant git. He wants to burn the planet down with coal because Australia has plenty of it. But as Joe Hockey should realise, the more coal you sell in a limited market, the faster the price falls... Tony's "government" (silly regime) literature puts climate change at "climate variability". No sir, you are an idiot, an liar and a thief. An idiot. There I can't stop myself saying it...
Global warming is real. Present global warming is the direct resultant of humans burning fossil fuels. The present global warming is racing at warp speed compared to previous climate change on this planet.
Don't be a silly dork, Tony. Go away. shoo...