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- The Bureau of Meteorology finds Australia is still getting colder a century later Sat, 22 Jan 22, 4:05amSurprisingly, the World War I era temperatures are still changing. Mornings that seemed nippy at the time are now susceptible to frosts.
- Australians wiped out the flu and avoided 50,000 other cases of sickness and disease Wed, 12 Aug 20, 12:24amLessons from Coronavirus Lockdowns and border closures mean many diseases have been prevented It’s peak season for flu here in Australia and there’s almost no sign of it...
- Lockdowns work: Influenza cases are 85% down across 17 countries Thu, 14 May 20, 2:23amLockdowns appear to be reducing all flu-like diseases This years flu season is smaller than the last five years Good news: due to the pandemic it’s likely many people are not catching Influenza and other respiratory...
- ACORN adjustments robbed Marble Bar of its legendary world record. Death Valley now longest hottest place Wed, 26 Feb 20, 3:23pmFor generations it was a Guinness Book of Records type thing. Now it’s gone. In 1924 Marble Bar set a world record of the most consecutive days of 100 °F (37.8 °C) or above, during an incredible period of 160 days...
- Cricketers to freeze: Boxing Day Tests in Melbourne cooling since WWII Wed, 1 Jan 20, 4:55pmPeacetime maximums on Boxing Day are just not what they used to be The ABC is afraid that Boxing day cricket may “go extinct” due to the heat. Chris Gillham at WAClimate.net graphed the December 26 test temperatures...
- Raw Data Bombshell: no change in Very Hot Days in Australia since World War I Wed, 20 Nov 19, 2:21amWhat a bombshell. The original data at 60 of the oldest sites across Australia shows there are no more Very Hot Days now than there were early last century. That’s no trend in 40 degree days for 100 years.
- Who knew? The Australian Bureau of Met just made last summer hotter, and history colder (again) Wed, 2 Oct 19, 2:04amThe cheapest way to prevent man-made global warming is stop the BOM altering the data First the BoM had “high quality” data. Then, with fanfare, after we asked for an audit they had the miracle of ACORN circa...
- Albany robbed of its coldest ever April day, BOM adjusts temp up 15 degrees C?! Sun, 5 May 19, 6:20pmFriday April 19th set more records than anyone realized. Not only was it the earliest recorded snowfall at Bluff Knoll, but it was also the coldest ever April day in Albany and many other towns in south-west Western Australia....
- Two-thirds of Australias warming due to “adjustments” — according to 84 historic stations Wed, 8 Apr 15, 12:52pm1954 Yearbook Brisbane Here’s an update to the digging through our historic records we discussed a month ago, we can now include nearly twice the stations and the difference between temperatures originally recorded...
- Mystery black-box method used to make *all new* Australian “hottest” ever records Sun, 3 Mar 13, 7:28pmThere were not many long term sites (in black dots) in the centre of Australia in 1930. This summer the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) invented a whole new metric to measure average national heat, which might be all very well...
- Cherry-picking sea level rises in Perth (a city which happens to be sinking) Wed, 19 Dec 12, 4:24am“Gale Force” cherries coming your way…
- Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable. Surprise! Thu, 15 Mar 12, 5:29pmThe BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 -95% of all Australian sites in the pre-Celsius era (before 1972) did not comply with...