The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a map and warning about Cyclone Yasi:
SEVERE TC YASI IS A LARGE AND VERY POWERFUL TROPICAL CYCLONE AND POSES AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY WITHIN THE WARNING AREA, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN CAIRNS AND TOWNSVILLE ( Read more... )

Imre S. proves to be a very bad, but very funny, man.

Before and after pictures of flooded Brisbane: a fairly mild indicator of the devastation across Queensland.

Evidence of medieval warm period in Antarctica.

According to Greenland ice core data, only 9,099 years of the last 10,500 were warmer than 2010. (There is a reason “the Little Ice Age ( Read more... )

It is mid-December in Melbourne and I have been wearing long sleeve tops and a jacket in the middle of the day to keep warm. (Changing from 'global warming' to 'climate change' was clearly an excellent PR move, even if apparently not enough to maintain public support.) Australia is currently wet and cold. I know it is the traditional Australian ( Read more... )