Now they want you to believe beach-weather is “deadly”

By Jo Nova

News is just a non-stop Psy-Op now

Sydney is getting five warm days in a row and the Sydney Morning Horror is warning that it could be deadly. Even newspapers in Belgium think their readers need to know there’s a warm spring in Australia — 10 – 15 degrees above average. It’s not even a record. Not even “the hottest in history” — just by golly, a bit warmer than a similar September heatwave, you know, nine years ago.

It was 35.6 degrees in September 2000 — so after 23 years of global warming, it’s not even hotter.

Sydney Morning HeraldSydney is due to hit 30 degrees on Sunday and Monday, but will reach new highs of 32 on Tuesday and Wednesday. The city hasn’t experienced consecutive days of 30-degree-plus weather in September since 2014. This week will be 10 degrees hotter than Sydney’s August average.

Driving a car could be deadly today too, but we don’t put it in a headline. The psychological effect is to generate fear of warm weather.

What is exciting is that Sydney didn’t even reach 32C last summer, at all, so after one of the least warm not-hottest 12 months on record, Sydney is finally getting some beach weather. But don’t mention that in 163 years there has not been a longer period where Sydney didn’t break 32 degrees C.

In Belgium “Australia is holding its breath” in fear of summer:

In the capital Canberra it can reach 28 degrees on Monday. There the record for September is at 30 degrees.

According to the meteorological institute, it is very exceptional that a heat wave is observed so early in the year. Summer is expected to be the hottest since 1996. Australia is therefore holding its breath for a summer like the one from 2019-2020. Then large parts of the country were burned to ashes by forest fires, killing some thirty.

The biggest killer in Sydney is moderate cold:

The Sydney Morning Herald is a bigger public danger than the heatwave because they only report the half of the news that suits them:

Western Sydney University senior researcher Thomas Longden said short sharp heatwaves, like the one Sydney is experiencing, are the most dangerous because the body struggles to acclimatise and people are less likely to change their behaviours to stay cool when the weather shifts suddenly. His work has found about 2 per cent of deaths in Australia each year are heat-related.

Even in sunny warm Australia about six times as many people die of the cold as of the heat. (Cheng et al) When will the Sydney Morning Herald point out that expensive electricity in winter kills far more people than a warm week in Spring? Indeed, the best cure for heat deaths is air conditioning. What we need is the cheap coal fired power grid we used to have (the one without all the unreliable expensive generators added on).

The number of people killed by 30 degree days in Sydney is almost nothing. (Gasparrini et al). When will “journalists” do some research instead of phoning up the local tame professor of global nonsense?

The news has become a gaslighting advert to justify more subsidies and profits for industrial giants, the deep state and asset managers with $9,000 billion dollars to buy media companies.

Good friends don’t let good friends read The Sydney Morning Herald without a health warning.

REFERENCES

Cheng et al (2019) Impacts of heat, cold, and temperature variability on mortality in Australia, 2000–2009, Science of The Total Environment,Volume 651, Part 2, 15 February 2019, Pages 2558-2565, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.186

Antonio Gasparrini et al.  (2015) Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational studyThe Lancet, May 2015 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62114-0.  Full PDF.

h/t David of Cooyal in Oz, and Bella

[*Typo “trillion” corrected to billion, dang – Jo].

 

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95 comments to Now they want you to believe beach-weather is “deadly”

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    James Murphy

    At this rate…
    A “heatwave” in Australia will soon be any temperature above -15 degC, and lasting for more than 10 seconds.
    Category 5 cyclones will be any low pressure system with wind speeds of 5 knots or more, sustained for 15 minutes
    “Extreme bushfires” will be a bit of smoke off a bbq at the local park.

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      Ronin

      And any small smokey grass fire will be labelled ‘ a raging wildfire’.

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      Muzza

      It has already started with the lowest bushfire risk being raised from ‘Low’ to ‘Moderate’, while peaking at ‘Catastrophic’. Language used as a weapon to support dodgy ideologies.

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        Mantaray

        Muzza. But who actually fears any of this? The beaches will be packed with masses unafraid of Global Boiling, and most will drive to the seaside in fossil-fueled vehicles.

        When it comes to weather exaggerations and shrieking, just think of all those washing powders where every year there’s new improved version which will leave your whites whiter and your colours brighter. Just like new!

        Rest assured they will be ever improved and your clothes will look newer than just like new…..next time around

        The media gets clicks, or eyeballs, or ears by inventing new scary stuff…and it has ever been thus. Why fret about what stupid people might believe?

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      Ian George

      A heatwave used to be 5C above average for 5 consecutive days. Now it’s 3 consecutive days at whatever they deem as higher than normal, including night time temps.
      ‘The Bureau of Meteorology defines a heatwave as three or more days in a row when both daytime and night-time temperatures are unusually high—in relation to the local long-term climate and the recent past. There is no single temperature threshold for a heatwave in Australia.’

      Way to go, BoM.

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        Looks like Mr. H. Dumpty [his pals call him Humpty]] now works for the BoM;
        ‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. It is a question of who is to be Master.’
        IIRC – you get the drift, even if it is not an exact quote.

        Auto – with apologies to C.L.Dodgson

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    John Hultquist

    30°C
    Holy Horse Slobber (HHS)!
    I was in a house where the mother of a small baby — both minimally clothed — thought that temperature was just right. Maybe she was from a place in the tropics. I wasn’t here a long time, but I don’t think she died.

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    Grant Boydell

    If heat is the problem, why do so many Southerners move to Queensland (and bring their stupidity with them)?

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      If heat is the problem then why is SE Asia, India and parts of Africa booming? Maybe it has something to do with the work ethic of the people.

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      Ronin

      “If heat is the problem, why do so many Southerners move to Queensland (and bring their stupidity with them)?”
      Also if heat was a problem, we’d all be moving to New Zimbabwe in droves.

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      John Connor II

      But Qld is the melanoma capital of the world, way ahead of even the USA.
      Heat isn’t the problem, UV is.

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        John Connor II

        Ultraviolet radiation levels are at record highs according to a report released by the Canadian Ministry of Environment on April 22, the level of harmful ultraviolet radiation this year is said to be the highest ever, because the earth’s protective ozone layer is getting thinner.

        The report says ultraviolet radiation shining on the earth increased by 4% this summer and, as a result, exposure to the sun can be more dangerous than ever. The report says cases of skin cancer, sunburn, cataracts and other conditions are increasing corresponding to ultraviolet radiation levels.

        Scientists recommend that people avoid the sun between 11pm and 2pm, when the radiation is most intense. At the same time, they advise people to use sunscreen all year round because it prevents ultraviolet rays, wears hats and sunglasses when out in the sun.

        Statistics show that the rate of skin cancer has increased from 3-5% per year in recent years.

        https://scienceinfo.net/ultraviolet-radiation-levels-are-at-record-highs.html

        When UV-C comes through, then I’ll worry.

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    Dave of Gold Coast, Qld.

    May be the time to remind the MSM they are supposed to inform us not terrorise us. The fakery, exaggeration and outright lies have been the real pandemic for years. Whether Covid, climate or vaccines we have been lied to in the past 3 years like never before. cannot really accept anything from them now.

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      Lawrie

      The easiest way to let them know is to not buy their newspapers nor watch their TV stations. The SMH “sell” many of their papers by leaving them in hotel lobbies for free. Very few young people read the rags and very few watch the “news” so the impact is minimal. Just like the survey Jo highlighted a few days ago it is not just Republicans ignoring the MSM and the science but anyone with a working brain.

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      Bruce

      NEVER forget that the LSM and its rabid band of churnalists, see themselves as “opinion-shapers” and King Makers and by logical extension, King BREAKERS.

      They get some of their biggest psycho-sexual jollies from hearing the punters parroting back the insane drivel incessantly pumped out by the “professionals”. Probably also type their trash with only one hand on the keyboard.

      Harsh?

      Several decades of close observation says; NO.

      Sadly, all these decades of propaganda are paying off; When “average” punters start referring to the “Oz” as “right-wing”, there may be trouble at mill.

      Corporate Statism is more their milieu.

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    David Maddison

    What waa once called “warm weather” back in the day is now called a “deadly heatwave”.

    People have lost all sense of historical perspective and reality.

    They have also lost touch with the weather. It’s
    possibly because people, especially children, no longer spend much time playing outside.

    Children spend most of their time indoors playing mind-destroying computer games while many adults now work from home as a result of a change in work habits during and after the plandemic.

    I am not alone in Melbournistan knowing that I have to use the cooling in my house very little in summer, Melbournistan summers are noticeably cooler than they used to be. If anything there is a cooling trend not a warning one.

    We might not know true weather and climate trends because of data fraud at Australia’s Bureau of Meterology (what they call “homogenisation”) plus huge numbers of poorly sited and badly managed weather stations e.g. next to freeways, in the middle of concrete expanses, within jet blasts, and also a failure to qualify and compare fast response digital thermometry with older slow response mercury max. and min. thermometers.

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      And the ABC is at the top of the ‘Climate Alarmist’ League Table here in Sunny Australia.

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        Mantaray

        Johnny. The ABC has been plummeting in all types of ratings…and in their own allegedly-important trust rankings.

        Already written the following a hundred times; why worry about what paranoid hypochondriacs and neurotic charlatans think about anything?

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    H P

    That’s nothing compared to the hysterics I’m hearing from the BBC just now about Antarctica melting!

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      Mantaray

      HP. Therefore cruises to “see the wonders of Antarctica” will be finding it very difficult to get passengers….

      The Guardian July 2023:

      “Antarctic tourism is booming – but can the continent cope?”… “A record 105,331 people visited Antarctica over the 2022-23 season. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian”

      Ok, so BBC liars are just like ABC liars. And?

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    Serge Wright

    Let them use the deadly claim, because everyone living in Sydney will be thinking this is climate heaven after 3 years where we could hardly venture outside without the cardie. With low humidity and cool nights, this is the perfect outdoor weather of the type people pay thousands to flock to on their holidays. The only increased death risk is from outdoor misadventure or perhaps falling off your chair laughing at the crazy claims being made by people who should be locked away in padded cells for the next 50 years.

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    Zigmaster

    Heat waves don’t kill but expensive unreliable electricity does. If people stay inside and the air conditioning works there is zero chance of death from heat. The problem is the demand for electricity is highest when everyone has their air conditioning on and if it coincides with a cloudy windless day blackouts are inevitable. Add in the plugging in of the electric car and cooking with electricity instead of gas the demand pressures on the grid will cause a shortfall and blackouts.
    The Libs should play into the confected fear campaign by highlighting not the danger of a heat wave but the danger of expensive unreliable electricity and push the argument for nuclear.

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      Ronin

      Boofhead Bowen and his Bevy of Blundering Blockheads have come out and stated that going nuclear will cost us all $387B, wow, how much are the subs costing, or how much will they waste on useless nondispatchable ruinable fairy power.
      $387B is a bargain, especially spread over 30-40 years.

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    Robert Swan

    This week will be 10 degrees hotter than Sydney’s August average.

    Luckily it’s September: mid-September.

    I had a factoid in my head that Sydney’s April and September average maxes were the same: 23 C. I’ve been noticing the used-car-salesman/weatherman on the ABC has recently been using a 20 C baseline when telling us how much hotter it is than usual. Was doubting my memory, but now it looks like *he’s* using the August average too. Typical “finger on the scales” stuff.

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    Neville

    This is a better and more accurate summary of the Gasparrini et al 2015 study showing 13 selected countries and it’s clear that moderate cold and cold are far deadlier than heat and moderate heat around the world.
    And Australia is the same, just look at FIG 2.

    https://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/79cee7d6-8e9d-4659-a6cf-f334e1403498/gr2.jpg

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      Neville

      Sorry should be moderate cold and extreme cold in 3rd line and also extreme heat and moderate heat in the next line.

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    Greg in NZ

    Thirty degrees? I can only dream of 30C! It maxed-out at 18C yesterday with a roaring nor’wester and people flocked to the beach (though not many were swimming). Even with an extra mythical 1.5 degrees Celsius, we wouldn’t have hit 20, and Sydney would’ve been 31.5 – ho hum fairly average pleasant. JUST STOP THE PSY-OP!

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    Tides of Mudgee

    “short sharp heatwaves, like the one Sydney is experiencing, are the most dangerous because the body struggles to acclimatise and people are less likely to change their behaviours to stay cool when the weather shifts suddenly.”.

    Gosh, I wonder why so many people hit the beach then. Tell ’em they’re dreamin’. Right up to standard Sydney Morning Psy-Op. ToM

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    David Maddison

    High heat doesn’t tend to kill people if they remain hydrated and out of direct sun but cold does tend to kill people, hence large numbers of people dying due to unaffordable electricity and gas due to “green” (sic) energy policies.

    Even the once-reputable but now fully woke “The Lancet” admits that far more people die of cold than heat.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.htm

    Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings, published in The Lancet, also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells.

    Humans are better hot-adapted rather than cold-adapted unless you happen to be an Eskimo or Neanderthal.

    And even the far Left “The Guardian” admits people die from fuel poverty.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/27/dying-cold-europe-fuel-poverty-energy-spending

    Thousands of people in the UK are dying from the cold, and fuel poverty is to blame

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/06/excess-winter-deaths-caused-by-cold-homes-in-great-britain-up-by-about-a-third

    Excess winter deaths caused by cold homes in Great Britain ‘up by about a half’

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      wal1957

      I noticed the way they wrote those lines…
      I wonder how it would play with the public if they wrote those lines as we would normally….

      Excess winter deaths caused by cold homes in great britain up by about 30%
      and…
      Excess winter deaths caused by cold homes in Great Britain ‘up by about 50%

      Laying it out this way appears to be more truthful. Unfortunately the “journalist” also understands that this would also expose the death rate in its truest form.
      Psychologically, up by a half is not as truthful or scary as up by 50%

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    Amr Marzouk

    Hello from Manly beach where we have been living on a knife edge these last few days.

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    David Maddison

    The problem with “climate scientists” (sic) who “research” (sic) climate and “journalists” (sic) who write about climate is that they never look out the window, let alone step outside their climate-controlled work places to find out what’s really going on.

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    another ian

    Read all for an elaboration of this –

    “How Trust Is Lost – HCQ, Authority, Corruption, Abuse”

    One man’s journey

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/09/17/how-trust-is-lost-hcq-authority-corruption-abuse/

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    Agri Cola

    Back in 1983 cotton was generally planted in the first week of September in the Gunnedah district of norwest NSW because the weather generally began warming from then and soil temperatures began to rise. Imagine my horror when on the 15th of September we had a frost. Admittedly it was one of the latest ever recorded but the event is etched in my memory.

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    Emory Bucknor

    You may need to sit down. The fact that extremely cold weather can kill you doesn’t exclude the fact that extremely hot weather can kill you.

    I know. It’s amazing, isn’t it?

    Anyway, reminding people about the impacts of extremely hot weather, especially on vulnerable groups like the elderly, infirm and very young, makes more sense for summer.

    And seeing as we are heading into an Australian summer – and not an Antarctic winter or similar – reminding people of the effects of extreme heat seems timely.

    Are you okay? Do you need to talk with anyone about this?

    https://wsroc.com.au/media-a-resources/releases/eight-tips-to-beat-the-summer-sizzle

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      wal1957

      Your lack of comprehension of the article is….amazing!

      Take a bex and lie down.

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      Gerry

      What is your definition of “extremely hot weather” ?

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        Honk R Smith

        What is your definition of “extremely hot weather”?

        Ah, definitions of words, seems a thing these days.
        Vaccine
        Woman
        Force
        Insurrection
        Fact

        I’m also a bit confused about when weather is climate and when it’s not climate but weather.
        Hot=climate=extremely.
        Cold is just weather.

        If the glaciers beginning advancing, do we win?

        -Lying Dogface Pony Soldier … but I prefer Loretta

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      Richard C (NZ)

      >Get ‘Heat Smart’— Eight tips to beat the summer sizzle! – Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC)

      Why Western Sydney?

      Western Sydney is particularly exposed to extreme heat due to local geography and weather patterns, including the prevalence of hot westerly winds and lack of cooling sea breezes.

      Oh, so not global boiling then.

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      David Maddison

      The Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils whom you cite is hardly a scientific or objective organisation.

      But it goes without saying that people need to take certain precautions in the hot Australian summer, and always have done.

      The only difference is that, back in the day, such precautions were considered to be “common sense”. Today, due to the tragic dumbing-down of the education system, people need to be told these things, although still don’t seem to take notice in many cases.

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      R.B.

      A hot day in September in Sydney is related to dry air coming from inland. 30°C is not going to kill anyone. I’ve worked all day in the hot sun up to 40°C as a teenager, on a vineyard in Mildura. 40 was the cutoff of too hot to walk behind a tractor picking up 7-8 kilo buckets of grapes and throw them into a bin, 18 tons the most I did by myself on a single day.

      Maybe waiting for a real hot day would be sensible.

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      el+gordo

      ‘Prepare a blackout kit: Power outages are common during heatwaves and can affect key services like public transport, water and phone services. Your kit could include a torch and batteries, first aid kit and mobile power pack.’

      I’ll pay that, power outages have been mooted.

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    Peter Fitzroy

    26 hospitalised from trying to run the Sydney marathon in extreme heat 🥵 . (SMH, Telegraph) that was in line with the SMH, BOM warnings. Also, let’s not talk about the past northern hemisphere summer 🌺, which was quite deadly due to heatwaves, like the one being experienced atm.

    On a snide note – not only is this particular story being posted earlier (now in the middle of spring 🌼) but the frequency has increased as well.

    I’m looking forward to the annual – it was hotter in the desert, in the middle of summer once, a long time ago, post.

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      David Maddison

      What’s so odd about people requiring hospitalisation when they inappropriately participated in an extreme sports event on an excessively hot day?

      And 26 hospitalisations out of about 17,000 participants? It’s a rate of 0.15%, from people who likely should not have been running in the first place.

      I hope taxpayers didn’t have to pay for their ambulance and hospital services. That’s self-inflicted stupidity.

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        John Connor II

        Hydration is one part, regulating minerals the other.
        A lot of people taking up exercise are at risk of heart attacks from sweating and water loss, which depletes Magnesium and Potassium, key heart action regulators.
        The body eventually acclimatises to the regime and becomes more proficient at conserving them, reducing the risk, but drinking water alone isn’t enough.
        I much prefer cold or extreme cold to heat. I’ve climbed up ice covered mountainside goat tracks mid winter in shorts and a tshirt with a windchill temp of -19C and still been soaked in sweat and not even feeling the cold. 4 hours of that in fact.
        The cold is dangerous if you don’t move enough. Gotta keep that blood moving.

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      el+gordo

      You will note that the Northern Hemisphere summer was hot and wet, it has the hallmarks of global warming.

      In the Southern Hemisphere we should expect the same, even with El Nino sitting in the wings.

      Getting to the chase, a greenhouse gas in the Stratosphere has caused the blip.

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      R.B.

      It’s 42 km!

      A paper found that there are 0.6 to 1.9 fatalities due to cardiac arrest per 100 000 marathon runners. London has 1.3. There was a good chance of death on Sunday regardless of the weather. A man died of heat stroke in 2014 London Marathon, and it barely got over 16°C.

      No reported cases of people dying, in any marathon, from dehydration. Hyponatremia is the big killer.

      How many of these just walked it?

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      R.B.

      Extreme heat! It didn’t crack 30 until 12. I’m guessing most were walking by then.

      It was 18% relative humidity, which is pretty dry. Too warm for extreme activity for some, but the Hawaiian Ironman Championship ends with a marathon usually around 30 over 50% humidity.

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    Ronin

    “Joggers in the bridge to wherever need ambulance attention”, well that happens when you’ve spent all your short life in airconditioning.

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    Sigh…Hearing acquaintances spouting slogans with more and more vigor. They are not going to back down to rational arguments, as the fear dial is screwed up to ridiculousness. What’s going to come first, a miraculous AH HA! moment, or jackboots? Anyway as I am tending toward the later, I’ve started looking at downloading the whole Jonova site, and was wondering if anyone could recommend one of the many aps to do it. And what sort of Gb am I looking at, so I can work out when I can fit it into my download limit, or go to a friend’s unlimited? WUTH is another. Electroverse has already lost a lot of his content. Dunno if it will help? We’re well on our way to illiteracy anyway.

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      Thank you. That’s a thoughtful offer. Compressed back up is running at about 11Gb as a Zip and Sql.

      I’ll email you.

      Actually, we are pushing the current bandwidth a bit and I should probably do a fundraising to increase that.

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        red edwards

        Jo, I can easily afford 11 GB storage, and being on the other side of the world, I can download during slack times. Let me know. Nothing like off-site backup. . .

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      Gee Aye

      You can cherish and immortalise the 3.5k posts by me

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    Steve of Cornubia

    The ABC & MSM don’t really care whether we believe this nonsense. All that matters is that they keep shouting about it, thus providing governments with the illusion of an excuse to take more of our money off us to ‘fix it’.

    As always it is illuminating to follow the money and, while it undoubtedly passes through the hands of a few rich people, it mostly continues moving all the way to China.

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    Neville

    By now we should all be aware of the most extreme heatwave index for the USA from 1930 to 1936, but what about the very low temperatures from 1956 to about 1975?
    And co2 levels were about 315 ppm in the 1930s extreme heatwave index and about 330 ppm in the later very cool ’56 to ’75 period.
    I wonder if the USA deaths recorded were unusual for either period? I can’t find any data so far.
    Have a look at the two periods at the OWI Data link. Any ideas about the cause of the two extremes?

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/heat-wave-index-usa

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    Kalm Keith

    Hyperventilating about this newly arrived, and totally unexpected beach weather is sooo 2023: oh dear, watch out for your skin.

    A friend just sent this link to a great reminder of what needs to be acknowledged and then what should be done.

    It’s what Trump did when he was President and the reason he was not allowed back in. Trump brought basic industry back to the U.S. and gave many Americans jobs they’d never had and they felt engaged with society.

    O’Biden, not wanting to upset the Chinese, quickly returned his country to the pre Trump situation, and worse.

    https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/143/442/586/original/81eb37cbe76fc552.mp4

    The content is great, but you may want to look away while he’s speaking.

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    Uber

    It’s been the most glorious stretch of weather we’ve had possibly in a couple of years. Long may it continue. The pool heater is running, causing tonnes of CO2 emissions so that the trees can thrive and provide us with shade.

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    Graeme No.3

    My memory of warmth in Sept. in Sydney was right.
    A temperature over 30℃ isn’t uncommon in Sept in Sydney, indeed it is hard to find any year were there isn’t one.
    The highest seems to be 34.2℃ (1980 Sept 25) NOTE also 31.3℃ (1980 Sept 8) 33℃ (1980 Sept 30)

    Next is 33.5℃ (1919) 32.8℃ (1907) 32.4℃ (2022) I find it hard to see any GlobalWarming© in there.
    https://australiasevereweather.com/links/temprec/syd-d09.htm

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    Philby

    Cold as a mother in law’s kiss
    right on the south coast of victoria. Spring is trying to break through but winter chills still remain. It is much colder than when we were younger. Warming nonsense

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    The biggest killer is the MSM generated bogeymen, (bogeypersons). Guaranteed to kill off any kind of fun or enjoyment of life.

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    R.B.

    Sydney Observatory had a almost 3 degree higher maximum on the 26th Sep 1965 than Saturday. Hot days in September are not unusual, and it probably would not have broken 30 using the old equipment. Sep that year had two days well over 30 and one at 29.7°C, so likely would have been a third over 30 under today’s conditions.

    It got up to 31.4 on the 17th of September 1928, so just as hot as Saturday (if not hotter in order to record a similar max). It was a part of a 4 day heatwave of 29.8, 31.4, 28.7 and 29.5°C. Likely that after the building of the bridge, the Cahill Expressway that curls around the Observatory and the massive glass hotel just east, change to electronic equipment and screen as well as dubious practices, that the same weather would have lead to 4 days above 30 in row in mid September almost 100 years ago. It could have been 6 in total.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    East Australia heat must be skewing Southern Hemisphere temperature, you’re probably thinking (or not):

    Daily 2-meter Air Temperature – Southern Hemisphere
    https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=sh

    Maybe a little but there’s much bigger factors at play.

    Choose Area: Antarctica.

    Huge swing, far greater than anywhere else on the planet.

    Anomaly went from -2.9 to +5.3. SH only went from +0.2 to +1.0.

    World getting an assist from Tropics too – which has gone completely troppo.

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      el+gordo

      Antarctic sea ice at historical lows, what is the cause?

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        Kalm Keith

        Sea ice is the product of warming poles. Extra warmth enables greater lateral deformation of the ice field which leads to the ice reaching the end of solid land support where it “breaks off.

        Perhaps a lack of sea ice is due to a reversal of that process; i.e. cooling of the ice pack increases the “stiffness” of the ice structure and reduces plasticity and associated lateral distortion.

        Cold weather = no floating ice.

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        Neville

        So tell us EG why sea levels today are much lower than most of the Holocene and why were Eemian temperatures and SLs so much higher than the Holocene?
        Of course Eemian co2 levels were about 280 ppm.
        BTW Daniel Fitzhenry can’t find anything unusual about Fort Denison NSW SLs from 1914 to 2019.
        And it’s his job to properly understand the SL data over that long period of time. IOW where’s their so called dangerous global warming and so called Human EXISTENTIAL threat?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjOmsqIibk&t=1s

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          el+gordo

          ‘ … why were Eemian temperatures and SLs so much higher than the Holocene?’

          The Eemian and interglacials preceding it were warmer than the Holocene because of the Younger Dryas, which stunted its growth.

          It was an unmitigated disaster for the Northern Hemisphere hunter gatherers, however, on their emergence they discovered a more settled way of life.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        El G >Antarctic sea ice at historical lows, what is the cause?

        SAM. Wind blows sea ice towards shore.

        Antarctic sea ice regime shift associated with decreasing zonal symmetry in the Southern Annular Mode
        Schroeter, O’Kanel, and Sandery (2022)
        https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-151/tc-2022-151-manuscript-version3.pdf

        335 As the dominant mode of large-scale atmospheric circulation in the Southern Hemisphere, SAM has a strong impact on sea ice, particularly in the West Antarctic region (Lefebvre and Goosse, 2005; Lefebvre et al., 2004; Holland et al., 2017; Doddridge and Marshall, 2017; Stammerjohn et al., 2008; Schroeter et al., 2017; Raphael and Hobbs, 2014; O’kane et al., 2013b).

        Historical lows go back aways:

        323 It is clear that the long-term circumpolar sea ice increase has been abruptly interrupted by the record low sea ice between 2016- 2019, with the rate of decline over those few years equalling the rate of decline over 30 years in the Arctic (Handcock and Raphael, 2020; Parkinson, 2019; Eayrs et al., 2021). However, several studies using ice cores and whaling records also identified sharp sea ice declines in the decades preceding the satellite sea ice record, particularly in the late 1970s just prior to 325 the launch of the satellite record (Kukla and Gavin, 1981; De La Mare, 1997; Curran et al., 2003; De La Mare, 2009; Cotte and Guinet, 2007).

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        Ronin

        Antarctic sea ice at historical lows, what is the cause?”

        Skewed reporting due to gaslighting.

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    Dave in the States

    The news has become a gaslighting advert ..

    I don’t know how long that has been happening down under but in America it really started getting out of control in about 2015. The national news even back in the 70’s was an indoctrination session, but since about 2015 it extends right down to the local level. There has also been a change of the type of language used. It’s not neutral language. It’s always trying to envoke an emotional reaction in the listener. Since about 2018 there’s always a climate propaganda segement about 5 minutes in. I change stations. I won’t listen to that BS.

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    exsteelworker

    So reading the article about the LNP Duttons modular nuclear power systems and the cost, $389 billion, the msm, ALP, GREENS are gasping and falling over each other demanding Dutton explain the cost. So $398 billion for 24/7 baseload power with zero CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, compared to who knows the amount of $$$$$ for ALP/GREENS/TEALS renewables energy future which will never be 24/7 baseload and cover the whole country in ruinables. Australia, dumb and dumber.

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      Ronin

      Sounds like a good deal to me, no need to run all those tens of thousands of kilometers of HV power lines through farmers paddocks.

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    Neville

    Here’s a few more studies about heatwaves and deaths and there doesn’t seem to be any correlation with co2 levels.
    And 19th century and early 20th century deaths in New York city were higher than later 20th century and 21st century deaths.
    And again much higher heatwaves in the USA during the 1930s and much cooler temperatures from 1956 to about 1975.
    It seems that co2 levels impact could be SFA.

    http://notrickszone.com/2018/08/06/us-instrumental-records-indicate-more-heat-waves-occurred-in-the-1930s-than-today/

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    Penguinite

    The wonders of this third rock from the sun never ceases to amaze me! Not only are we just the right distance from the sun to obtain its heat in just 8 minutes. We are rotating at just the right speed for the flora and fauna to obtain appropriate beneficial effects for just right amount of time for us to exist. But wait there’s more. The earths Axis is set at approximately 21-23 degrees which provides for seasonality. The whole thing is a miracle!

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      el+gordo

      The moon moderates earth’s wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. So yes, its a miracle and the gods are smiling upon us.

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    liberator

    Do you think the readers of idiotic news “stories”‘like this look at them and laugh? Think how stupid it is, even the oldies who are most at risk would be looking at this and thinking what a bunch of sooks, and saying they they have no idea whats hot, and back in our days we didn’t have ac’s etc…

    Seriously even the BOM is issuing a heat wave alert. FFS. Its not even hot, it may be a little warmer at an earlier time of the year, but deadly, really?

    Now if we had 10-20 days 40 + degrees I’d be concerned, not that I might die because of the heat’, but because I hate the heat, anything over 20 is just too hot for me.

    Loved our winter just passed, hate the summer. Most humans have fans, ac’s etc in our homes, our offices, our cars , some are even lucky enough to have a pool. We can escape the heat for most part. If its going to be so deadly gosh, our renewables may not cope as everyone turns on their cooling devices, and then where will we be?

    I’ll be a climate refugee, I’m eventually moving to Tassie to avoid the globull boiling

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    Neville

    Jo Nova posted on Australia’s past heatwaves etc in 2019 and there certainly was evidence of very hot temperatures over 100 years ago and during the late 19th century.
    It certainly seems to be part of our forgotten history, if you take any notice of Labor and the Greens loonies.

    https://joannenova.com.au/2019/01/forgotten-history-50-degrees-everywhere-right-across-australia-in-the-1800s/

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    How do we fit CO2 into the present situation? There is a blocked high in the Tasman, pumping warm air from the Coral Sea, over the Queensland coast, to as far west as well into WA. High pressure means no clouds, so the interior surface, that the winds are blowing over is hot. The anticyclonic air then sweeps south, giving the southern states a taste of an air dryer. Looks like a great set up for bush fires, maybe in a windy October?

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    PeterPetrum

    I am in the South of France at the moment (after a three year Covid holiday delay) and the temperature today is forecast to be 28°C. I read that the temperature in Blackheath NSW was – 28° today! Can’t wait to get home next week to a decent summer at last.

    Oh! But I forgot – catastrophic bush fire season a “certainty”.

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    Ireneusz Palmowski

    The Great Barrier Reef is not under threat.
    https://i.ibb.co/Zcb8FF2/mimictpw-spac-latest.gif

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    Ireneusz Palmowski

    The Niño 3.4 index remains at +1.2 C.
    https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino34.png

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    gary

    I live in Belgium and had the misfortune of having to read this article in my local newspaper. The mainstream media doesnt do any research in to what it publishes. It’s pathetic…

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    Mickey Reno

    It’s just like in the movie “On The Beach!” Survivors should just start a death race Gran Prix.

    /facepalm

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