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Climate policy silence: Can't our leaders handle the heat?

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Opinion
The Drum
By Greg Jericho

Posted 18 May 2016, 12:38pm


Photo: April marked the seventh month in a row
the monthly temperature record had been broken.
(MBBirdy/ Getty Images)

We're way past the point of pretending the world isn't warming, so the question really should be why the
major parties are so silent on their climate policies during an election campaign, writes Greg Jericho.

One aspect of having an election during winter is that even though temperature records are being broken, climate change is largely out of voters' minds.

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Since 1880 the record average temperatures for January-April has been set 17 times (including 1880). The average increase in the record has been .07C, and there has never been an increase in the record of more than 0.2C. And yet in the first four months of this year the average temperature was 0.38C above the previous best - an increase 5.3 times greater than the average increase:
Embed: January-April record temperature averages

It would be like someone coming along and breaking the individual test cricket innings record by 124 runs rather than the average improvement of 24 runs.

The temperature in April also meant that the previous 12 months was the warmest 12 month period on record - beating the previous best which was set in March, which beat the previous best which was set in February, which beat the previous best which was set in January, which beat the...

It's all getting a bit monotonous, and makes one almost pine for the days when you could say "the world hasn't warmed since...".

So clear is the evidence now on temperatures rising, that to say that the world isn't warming requires a level of ignorance so brutally departed from reality that the polite thing would be to at least include mentions of dragons, white walkers and the kingdom of Westeros in your fantasy tale to give it some interest.

Climate change deniers still futilely hold to the view that the world hasn't warmed since 1998 and yet had we in 1998 thought to forecast ahead to 2016 based on what had occurred over the previous 30 years, we still would have undersold just how much the world would warm.

that's just warming up ..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-18/jericho-climate-policy-silence/7424598

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