According to the Bureau of Meteorology, 2010 was Australia's coldest year since 2001. Since logic tells us the planet can't be getting hotter and colder at the same time, we can confidently pronounce global warming dead, buried and comprehensively beaten.However, according to the Bureau of Meteorology 2010 was
Australia’s coolest year since 2001 and Australia’s warmest 10 years on record...The BOM are referring to global, not local data which is surprisingly consistent and substantially in agreement.
...The past 10 years have been the globe’s hottest on record with an anomaly of +0.46 °C. Increasing global mean temperatures derived from instrumental measurements are consistent with other independent indicators of climate change, such as reductions in ice and snow cover, and rises in global sea levels.
One comment made is that the climate scenarios have been too conservative and that the reality is exceeding expectations,
A new analysis of the Northern Hemisphere's "albedo feedback" over a 30-year period concludes that the region's loss of reflectivity due to snow and sea ice decline is more than double what state-of-the-art climate models estimate.Climate change is very much alive.
