It is coal miners not hoaxers like Jonathan Moylan who are
costing us the Earth, says Doug Evans. He says it’s time for us
to connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather
events. WITH CLIMATE CHANGE blogging, sometimes it’s hard to
separate out the important themes from the general deluge of bad
news — then suddenly there’s so much to write about, you don’t
know where to start. So extreme are the maximum temperatures
produced by the dome of hot air stalled over the Australian
interior, the Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour
to its temperature contour maps – ‘hot pink’ – for maximum
temperatures between 52ºC and 54ºC. In the following night time
NASA satellite image of Australia, the lights of the various
State capital cities and main towns can be seen where you would
expect to find them, but the other patches of light – especially
those in the sparsely inhabited outback of Western Australia –
show the locations of the more than 140 wildfires raging at the
time of the photo. Alway