Adelaide hits a staggering 45.6C, heat records breaking day aftyer day in Australia...

NVDL: Although it's getting less and less ironic (something we can ill afford by the day), let's say that thing altogether now:

'Do you think this stuff might have something...may have some connection...to that other thing...something about the global climate or something... they were gabbing on all the time...what was it called again...?'

I believe by the time we are forced to adapt and change to the worsening climate, we'll really have used up our resources, and choices to do so. It will be a scramble for survival (for food, water, amenable living temperatures) in some parts of the world - it already is. That's a different scenario to luxurious living. It becomes a desperate state of hanging on, and we have no idea how much worse this could become, and for how long. We all took a terrible gamble that it probably wasn't worth worrying about. Because it suited us to live with selfish indulgences. Now the pendulum begins to swing the other way as it always must.

clipped from www.independent.co.uk Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave. On Friday, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record, while even normally mild Tasmania suffered its second-hottest day in a row, as temperatures reached 42.2C. Two days before, Adelaide hit a staggering 45.6C. After a weekend respite, more records are expected to be broken this week. Ministers are blaming the heat – which follows a record drought – on global warming. Experts worry that Australia, which emits more carbon dioxide per head than any nation on earth, may also be the first to implode under the impact of climate change.