It’s the time of year in Australia when we have the usual suspects crowing about the breaking of temperature records being proof of man-made global warming.
Let’s have a quick look at how ridiculous this is.
No one disputes that since the last ice age the world has generally been getting warmer. Let’s pretend that this increase had happened at a steady rate, like this:
If this were the case, every year would break every previous year’s temperature records.
Obviously the increase isn’t as uniform as that, but the fact is that in a warming world, temperature records will be broken whether man has anything to do with it or not.