By Jo Nova
The Northern Territory will become unlivable says the ABC, mindlessly parroting the latest activist-blob voodoo.
The ABC Blob News spent nearly $3 million dollars of our money today but didn’t spend ten minutes cross checking the latest scare.
Extreme heat will make Northern Territory unlivable within 40 years, activists warn
By Matthew Qvortrup, ABC
The Climate Justice Alliance, a coalition of health, housing, environmental and social service organisations, says rising temperatures and increasingly severe heatwaves present a direct and immediate threat to people across the Territory, particularly in the Top End.
Environmental advocate Ned Bible from Jesuit Social Services said the scale and speed of warming meant urgent, coordinated action was needed from all levels of government.
“Without urgent action, extreme heat will make the Northern Territory unlivable in less than 40 years,” Dr Bible said.
If only the ABC spent two minutes searching the historic temperature records on the BoM site they’d see that while temperatures have risen since the 1940s, Darwin has long good records and it was hotter 120 years ago. And before anyone says “non standard equipment” the answer is “No” — Stevenson screens were installed in Darwin by 1894 and they recorded many annual mean temperatures above 33 °C in the next ten years. Temperatures today have only just returned to to that with the help of hot airport tarmac, population growth, electronic sensors and radar interference. If any data needs correcting in this graphs, it’s probably the recent readings which might be in shrunken 60L screens, with electronic equipment that records one second records and gusts of hot air off the tarmac.
The temperatures in Darwin fell, and it’s taken nearly 90 years to recover:
Sources: BOM Data for Darwin post office and for the Airport.
The ABC lie by omission
They show the recent graph but not the historic one.
And that cooling trend has been known for 75 years — it also stretched across a vast area of Australia including Alice Springs, Hay and Bourke, and was written up in a peer reviewed paper by Deacon et al in 1952.
Jennifer Marohasy analyzed the data from Darwin and concluded that what the BOM had done to the original data was “indefensible”.
If they don’t rewrite history, they just ignore it…
The Climate Justice Alliance seem to think climate change will hurt the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples disproportionately more than everyone else. But haven’t they been here for 40,000 years? If so, their ancestors survived the Holocene when the world was so much warmer that the seas were 1.5 metres higher around Australia. I hear the air-conditioners were not too good either.
The cruellest thing we can do to anyone in a heatwave is make their electricity unaffordable because we’re trying to change the weather.
If we sold off the ABC we could buy a billion dollars worth of airconditioning for the poor.
REFERENCES
Deacon, E.L. (1952) Climatic Change in Australia since 1880, Australian Journal of Physics, Volume 6, Pages 209-218. [PDF]
ABC “News” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/climate-change-will-make-nt-unlivable/106301158
Ned Bible (?) from Jesuit S.S. (?)
Hide the decline at all costs!
Who’ll think of the crocodiles 🐊
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Tourist coaches for Japanese tourists used to have signage “Smile Crocodile”.
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That’s Doctor Ned to you, Bub. 🙂
“Vanessa (Ned) Bible is an environmentalist, social justice advocate, academic, peacebuilder, and historian. Ned has a passion for social and environmental justice and has been involved in community activism and organising since the age of 17. “
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AGW seems to work for the Jesuit Social Services as a means to generate funds for welfare and social support to underprivileged people or those affected by unfortunate events. Their catch cry is “climate resilience”. There’s a correlation with the UN’s agenda 21 in that climate change (TM) should corral money from wealthy companies and countries into funds that will supposedly reach the so-called victims.
Bringing a justice lens to climate resilience
“Climate Partnerships is about strengthening resilience in ways that are practical, locally led and grounded in justice. By supporting organisations to understand how climate change intersects with social inequity—and equipping them with the tools to act—the project is laying the groundwork for more coordinated, inclusive and effective approaches to supporting climate and disaster resilience.“
https://jss.org.au/news-and-media/our-stories/13678/
I don’t think JSS are corrupt, merely confounded by all the AGW BS and developing funding strategies accordingly. But the ABC shouldn’t be citing these sorts of organisations as climate prophets in the news. Especially when many mammals, plants, corals, etc have been demonstrating “climate resilience” for thousands of years.
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There has been a win win for sanity in The Netherlands: Historical Victory for Clintel in the Climate Debate
KNMI, the Dutch meteorological office, has finally, after many years, restored some past heatwaves to the historical record. Heatwaves, that is, that they had “adjusted” out of existence. It took years, and there is still a long way to go, but it’s a major victory.
Australia next??? One of my favourite quotes is from an Ernest Hemingway novel: “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. gradually and then suddenly.”.
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Darwin is in the tropics. It has a tropical savannah climate.
Of course it’s hot, and remote.
That’s why a lot of people don’t want to live there, apart from the high crime rate.
(Sarc.) But isn’t Australia shutting down its energy supply going to make the weather in Darwin cooler and more comfortable? (/Sarc.)
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33 C mean summer temperature?
THE HORROR!!!!
Meanwhile, Phoenix Arizona has a mean summer temperature of 42 C and it’s 1.7 million residents seem to cope with it just fine. In fact, many American retirees move there for the hot and dry climate, which is far easier on creaky old bones than the frigid climates of the northern parts of the United States. Same goes for Florida, though it is a bit cooler and a lot more humid.
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Steve, the temperature alone doesn’t tell the full story for Darwin, it’s a tropical heat, high humidity, often 90+ % with mid 30’s Celsius in summer. After 22 years in similar north Queensland conditions, I never got fully comfortable with tropical summer heat.
The stupidity of these articles by the alarmists is that most of Asia, South America and Africa along the equator latitudes are next level again for heat and humidity but plenty of people live in those areas.
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Darwin is by far Australia’s northernmost city, of course it’s hot.
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It may be worth noting after the ABC’s latest offering that Darwin was formerly known as Palmerston…🤦♂️
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It’s interesting that Darwin’s record high temp is the lowest of all the capital cities – yes, even Hobart.
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Yep. Tropics
32 to 35 degrees is about as hot as it can get if you are adjacent to the ocean.
Willis Eschenbach’s writings: Tropical thermostat.
Tempest rise too a certain point, thunderstorms develop; cooling.
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I am waiting for a reaction from commercial solar installation advocates and in particular the NT build said to be for supply of electricity to Singapore.
Around middle of 2025 the Albanese Labor Government joined 14 countries from Indo-Pacific Region to sign an agreement supporting the building of nuclear power stations and plants in signatory countries including Indonesia;
https://x.com/Nuclear_BP/status/1869062919230734511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869062919230734511%7Ctwgr%5E7ce08b6a558cb2a2358547a501354961e141a6c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
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Any enterprising Darwinites out there, who might like a “challenge”?
Locate and photograph any “official” weather stations.Stevenson screens in large, bitumen-paved government car-parks?.
Or, something as creative as that Sydney station that extra additional sunlight courtesy od a conveniently-draped large piece of reflective material?
That sort of thing.
Calibration and servicing logs might also be revealing.
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Bruce,
The weather station that we miners set up at Jabiru in 1973 or so complied fully with written standards. Mining was stopped there 5 years ago because Aboriginal activism. The town of Jabiru that we built has been handed over and from what I hear is not quite as sparking as it was back then. I have no idea about data quality now and I must say that I am no longer interested. Geoff S
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My favourite Darwin graph is from NASA GISS where they actually show the adjusted v4 data prior to 1950. The original raw data (v2) site has now been withdrawn. The adjustments are for all to see.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=ASN00014015&ds=14&dt=1
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Adjust, clean, homogenise, repeat. Voila! Crisis.
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Et voilà, they even use the term “homogenize” on the graph. They must have got the data from BoM.
Australian Governments are always enthusiastic adopters of the world’s worst ideas.
As far as I know, the BoM’s ACORN-SAT data set, was the first in the world to base official meteorological data on a hand-adjusted “homogenised” data set, adjusted to confirm to the Official Narrative.
BoM (Bureau of Meteorology/Misinformation) has not published and refuses to do so, the precise methodology by which temperatures are adjusted therefore the adjustments are not reproducible by others and therefore not science. They are politics. And the adjustments tend to cool the past and warm the present.
The issue of “homogenisation” has been extensively commented and linked on Jo’s pages so I won’t add further references.
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Before ACORN-SAT there was a data set called High Quality data. It included most of the ACORN-SAT sites but it was Lismore (Centre St) that interested me. When I checked the HQD yearly means with the original raw data, I found that pre-1950’s had been adjusted down by up to one degree. When the site disappeared, out came ACORN-SAT (no Lismore now). I checked Bourke, Jan 1939 data against the original raw data and 29 days’ daily temps had been adjusted down by up to a degree. There were two 28 degree days and these were adjusted up by 0.1C. This reduced the monthly mean by 0.6C. The whole new data set is corrupt and the BoM needs to answer serious questions about these adjustments.
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“Australian Governments are always enthusiastic adopters of the world’s worst ideas.”
Remember when our govt adopted that useless Cuisinaire, coloured rods garbage for maths, my eldest got stuck with it.
It was tried and failed in France so we adopted it.
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Shocking colour choice on that graph, especially the unadjusted in yellow? While easier to see if you select the data, without that, it kinda hides the original data, and like most unadjusted data it shows it was much hotter before 1940 and before the adjustments. I can’t see many cooler temps adjusted up, just seems all the warmer ones adjusted down but the earlier warmer temps down and the later cooler up just supports the cause.
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I believe these are desperate attempts by members of the Blob to continue the climate scare aware that in the rest of the world it has become yesterdays story. We know, and many more are catching on, that climate happens and there is nothing we can do about it. We can make life more comfortable but that will take some reasonably priced air conditioning. I note that NSW is gaining six more big batteries. How wonderful, how useless, how expensive.
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From what I can see it has and is working.
They are not catching on.
Haven’t you heard, ‘warming causes colding’?
I’ve been nibbling at friends and associates for years.
Trying to raise awareness.
Now my little part of the world is experiencing bitter sustained cold, heavy snow, and and hard as rock packed ice.
Along with near doubling of energy costs due to our state’s commitments to Net Zero
But no matter.
No matter how many pacific islands remain the same size as they were in WWII.
No matter how high beach front real estate prices go.
(I saw a bumper sticker just yesterday that declared “I visit light houses to cry” … ’cause they are being destroyed by CC SLR.)
Human activity is still the cause of “Climate Change” … no matter how many of the scientist’s and politician’s predictions and promises fail.
And no matter which direction the ‘change’ goes.
Baked in for foreseeable generations.
Evil genius propagandistic branding.
Mass brainwashing.
Pandemic being the masterpiece.
And us poor climate skeptic souls had front row seats to the tragedy.
They’re trying to fix it so those of us whose brains resist washing are declared thought criminals.
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” Haven’t you heard, ‘warming causes colding’?”
It must work like the old kerosene frigs, heat gives you cold.
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And the idea at least as much tending as a kerosene frig
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Thanks to Jo Nova for trying to add some sanity to the Darwin temps and the links.
BTW the NT rainfall record today is like chalk and cheese compared to 1900 to 1972 and much higher rainfall now from 1973 to 2025.
Why is it so and who’s complaining?
https://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=nt&season=0112&ave_yr=0&ave_period=6190
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I think everyone should send the ABC a link to Jo’s article and tell them to retract and apologize for poor research and bias inaccurate reporting.
Here’s a link I found:
https://www.ajust.com.au/businesses/australian-broadcasting-corporation-abc-complaints
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The complaint link above is and AI and wants to charge $8 to lodge the complaint with the ABC Ombudsman, charged now and refunded in fully if the ABC doesn’t provide a substantive response to the complaint!!
When I got to the end, I borked at putting in my credit card details – I don’t trust AI
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Or make a free Official complaint at:
https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/requests/new
I don’t know how the AI complaint process via CoIA’s commercial link would be any more listened to than a conventional complaint though.
ABC tends to ignore complaints, and the Lib/Labs support them as propaganda instruments of Government policy and the Official Narrative. At a cost to taxpayers of $3 million per day.
It’s still worth complaining though as the ABC Ombudsman compiles statistics.
https://www.transparency.gov.au/publications/communications-and-the-arts/australian-broadcasting-corporation/australian-broadcasting-corporation-annual-report-2023-24/accountability/abc-ombudsman—content-complaints-
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Plus there are the BOM adjustments to the temperature record, particularly at Darwin.
Willis Eshenbach noticed that 16 years ago!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/
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Thanks for that link Peter C and I haven’t read that Eschenbach post for years.
They really didn’t mess about when they adjusted the Darwin temp data.
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Extreme heat will make Darwin un_inhabitable
like rising seas will leave New York deep _
under_water.
Say _ what was that predicted use by date?
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Peter C,
Why quote international sources?
I could name a dozen Australians, most well qualified scientists, who were sounding alarms early. Some go back to 1992, horror at Phil Jones adjusting data and refusing to share. Geoff S
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Geoff
Doesn’t hurt to quote “noticed from outside” sources IMO
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the Jesuits are at it again lol
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Who has got at the Jesuits? They taught me through schooling in the ‘60s and I certainly didn’t end up as woke as this lot.
It might have been in the first few weeks of being taught Biology that we learnt the importance of CO2 and all life’s dependency on this relatively rare gas compound.
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Anyone that actually listens to theses idiots has NEVER studied history.
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Is it just me, but I’ve noticed ABC news editors have become even more desperate recently to find every last alarming story about climate change no matter how silly or irrelevant. Only the true believers take any notice.
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Hi Ken,
Seems that only an open inquiry into BOM will cause improvement.
There was going to be an enquiry, but the Lib’s Greg Hunt MP, from the unelected World Economic Forum, got it stopped. There are more “influencers” like him still hanging around, some advising Labor, who will be further obstacles on the path to truth and reality.
We need contacts with a couple of people with money, open minds and good lawyers to assemble a law suit and start the prosecution process.
BOM are not being open or honest with the climate change data. Geoff S
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“The Climate Justice Alliance, a coalition of health, housing, environmental and social service organisations”
Meet our Members – No Results Found
Why is the(ir) ABC citing unqualified and unknown climate and immigration activists as a valid scientific source?
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As Tony noted at No.9
the Jesu!ts are at it again
No one expects the Cl!mate !nquisition!
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Supports their narrative. They have a go to list of these sorts of groups and bad hair academics they can plug into stories as needed. Balance or other views don’t come into their thinking.
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Noted, and filed with:
Ice caps disappearing by 2015
NYC being flooded by sea level rise
Dams not refilling
Drought being the “new normal”
Boiling, acidic oceans
Increasing natural disasters
Children wont know what snow is
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None of them happened. All pro-science climate “sceptics” were proven correct, LoL.
Science-based scepticism about these claims was labelled by the Left as “far right misinformation” or “climate denialism”.
Such views would have been censored had the Government passed its “misinformation” laws.
But pro-science views might be censored anyway if they reclassify science as “hate speech”.
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Darwin, hot ? .. never.
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Ronin,
I remember moving to Gove in July 1978 and going to watch a Rugby League game.
A lots of people were wearing jackets and cardigans.
I was ready to take my shirt off, it was so warm.
The next year, I was also rugging up. Same temperature, but I had become aclimatised.
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Climate Justice Alliance
The Blob spawns heroically named little groups all the time.
… hundreds and hundreds, they come, they go – and always too soon, as Marlene Dietrich sang.
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yarpos and Ken Stewart
It’s still being pushed. e.g. recently claimed that melting Arctic ice WOULD endanger Edinburgh Castle. (those who haven’t been there, the rock on which it stands is 135 Metres above sea level).
And the Glaciers in Glacier Park, Montana have shrunk since 1862 but some are still there – despite predictions they would disappear
in 30 years (several times in the 1920’s)
in 50 years (several times in the 1950’s)
in 20 years in 2000 (leading to signs being added for the Park visitors)
in 10 years in 2001 (after the signs being removed)
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When will someone blame the real culprit of global warming? Air conditioning.
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A good summary from Steve Malloy about Gore’s BS and fantasy via his AIT movie.
Yet this clueless donkey nearly became US President, but settled down and racked in hundreds of millions with the movie.
But I suppose he’s happy with all the temp data adjustments over the last 20 years.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/02/steve-milloy-20-years-after-an-inconvenient-truth/
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There has been no increase in how hot the hottest heatwaves have been each year in the BOM Darwin temperature data since the 1880s.
Places like Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide get heatwaves from hot winds blown in from central Australia. Locations like Darwin and Alice Springs are already hot, with nowhere nearby as a source of hot winds to blow in to make heatwaves there.
Next, Darwin is in the Tropics, so the sun is overhead twice a year giving an effect like 2 summers each year. Those other cities get this effect only once a year.
Look at the data. See these effects before your very eyes, then weep at those who preach guesswork instead of data.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/DRWVMELB.xlsx
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And look at the difference in those graphs at the same point in 1940. The PO 31.1C, the airport, 32.6C!!!! No runway heating there… FFS!
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‘ … their ancestors survived the Holocene when the world was so much warmer …’
It was their dream time, hot and very wet, but the shocking aspect is that CO2 was in the basement.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033422000144
This of course is heresy and no scribe would promote the idea.
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So, have a good look at the Darwin versus Melbourne heatwaves graphs that I just linked. I have put them all on the same scale for valid comparison, likewise used only the last 100 years. If you multiply the y = number by 100 you get the trend in deg C per century. It is so tiny that it has to be regarded as noise, natural ups and downs.
There is essentially no increase in how hot the hottest heatwaves became.
Darwin shows very little change on the graphs around the dotted mean, one year is like the next, while Melbourne has much more scatter. There is a mechanism at work in Melbourne but not in Darwin. It is likely that this is caused by the hot winds from the hot Centre, that bring less heat to Melbourne some years than others.
See as well how overall (esp in 1-DAY heatwaves) Melbourne gets hotter than Darwin each year. Why is this so, given that Melbourne is 2,000 km further from the Equator? Yes, it is that blown in hot wind effect again. Heatwaves need to be considered in a context beyond the textbook analysis of local ambient temperatures at a location.
Both Darwin and Melbourne have been treated by BOM as if there are major errors in the historic temperatures records. There probably are. The Darwin weather station was relocated from the Post Office to the airport. I have used 1941 as the crossover, other years give differences. No matter the crossover year, to “adjust” to remove the jump you must know how much to add or subtract plus over which past years, whether to use just one value to adjust or to taper it over several or even many years …. there is no adjustment that is scientifically valid because every possibility one can find involves guesswork.
Likewise, Melbourne has a site relocation from LaTrobe St in central city to Olympic Park, a few km to the East, around 2014. Overlaps show that the city site was reading about 2 deg C higher Tmax than Olympic Park, which is a likely reason for the relocation. What is 2 deg when these Charlies quote 0.1 deg for setting record hottest evers?
BOM claim they can work out a correction with data from nearby stations. Good luck with that, here isan example of what is available.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/melbminus25tav.jpg
M
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Sheesh! These false prophets from the ABC and soothsayer charlatains are a blight on decency. They’re hard to get rid of, like a pernicious malignancy. I’m looking forward to the day that their ABC gets defunded and has to go subscription.
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There is a Kakadu amateur snapshot to illustrate this article. I have been to Kakadu 40 times for research since
1972. The photo shows a few dead or wasting trees as evidence that there was once a forest there.
It is, in my informed opinion, a snapshot of the remnants of a small local water channel. These ephemeral channels form as annual floods recede, some of them lasting a few seasons, some a few decades, some long ago became part of the long term drainage system. Trees can grow beside them when the ground around them stays moist. When there is a change to their banks as from another flood, they can become drier and the trees die. They are like tiny, impermanent billabongs.
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During the 1970s I regularly visited NT via Darwin Airport and was driven to the then remote area now Kakadu National Park when the gravel road passed Humpty Doo Hotel and the wildlife observation centre location today was a natural lagoon area, and then to a construction camp where the now highway has been constructed, a major bridge project and construction equipment supplied by the company I was employed by in Sydney.
Hot weather, heatwaves and very high humidity in the wet season was regular normal expectations
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Our northern regions are unbearable at times, like Singapore, which has not recorded a temperature above 37C. They call it ‘going troppo’.
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The Climate Justice Alliance, a coalition of health, housing, environmental and social service organisations can be among the first ngo’s and quango’s to be DOGE’d when Australia gets a real, committed conservative government who understands the core beliefs of Australia’s value producers.
Add in the ABC, SBS & NIAA for a financial pruning and compulsory audits and these leeches will have to seriously determine how much of their funding goes to areas they said was their core business when demanding public funds. That should 9hopefully)leave very little for unaccountable Marxists gaslighting with this endless stream of disinformation.
Their collective wages alone channelled in Ag & Industry, would be welcome in driving down the Chalmers Deliberate Inflation Scheme.
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Fabian Society of UK and associated other branches including Australian Fabian Society of Labor membership, Marxists
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Dennis,
You might like this blast from the past, Hawke and Fabian.
Geoff S
http://www.geoffstuff.com/fabian.pdf
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Environmental advocate Ned Bible from Jesuit Social Services.. great surname!
They are not scientists so sorry not listening…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYIZpa3bPA. Michael Schellenberger is worth a listen though, he certainly is one of the few who actually does research anymore.
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Jason Chaffetz isn’t a scientist either, he’s a former US Congressman 2009-2017 where he was the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
He has a prescient paragraph in his book The Puppeteers.
‘The fact is, these leftist solutions don’t work. This dichotomy shows up in education policy, energy policy, election reform, environmental regulations, and even intelligence operations. Only when we recognize the true goal can we understand how priorities get set. That’s why, for example, the demand to defund the police is deafening when it means taking a top-down federal approach to hiring more leftists to do more training to do more crime “prevention.” But when it comes to conservatives protesting at the Capitol, Canadian truckers protesting in Ottawa, lawful gun owners exercising their Second Amendment rights, or energy companies meeting critical demand, suddenly justice and law enforcement become critical priorities and no punishment is harsh enough. These inherent contradictions are important. They help us distinguish genuine concern from political opportunism.’
Left wing governments around the West have used that paragraph as a guidebook on defunding the middle class and attempting to destroy democracy.
If not for Trump, the world would be on a fast track to oblivion. He’s shown what standing up to climate grifters does to enhance a sovereign nation.
The hard working people of Australia are asking, where’s our no nonsense, straight talking leadership? If not soon the ideologues like Chalmers, Albo, Bowen and Wong can keep producing ludicrous soundbites about the far right and inflation as deflections until the education department produces more mindless useless idiots to galvanise the gains of 2m ‘grateful’ immigrants.
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Darwin is too close to the ocean to ever get much above the open ocean sustainable temperature limit of 30C.
Once an air column establishes cyclic convective instability it will go into convective overshoot if the surface temperature exceeds 30C. Convective overshoot results in very high altitude ice that is not always visible from ground level. However that is very small particles because it was formed at very low pressure and it descends slowly. The surface will cool to about 28C before the surface gets full sunlight again.
Cyclnes will cause convective overshoot as well. The wake of a cyclone will have a temperature around 28C as well.
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Perth is on the Indian ocean, Sydney and Brisbane the Pacific and Adelaide the Southern. Even Hobart and Melbourne are coastal.
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From the BOM data, the PO from 1882 to 1942 Max TEMP 32.6 C AND min TEMP 23.6 C. The more recent Airport temp from 1941 to 2026 MAX temp 32.1 C and MIN temp 23.3 C.
Here’s the link…..
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https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_014016.shtml
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Sorry I should’ve said that this was for Darwin data from 1882 to 2026 and over the two sites.
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Don’t anyone dare mention Greg Hunt. (sorry, just did). The LNP Minister in government who blocked the enquiry into the BOM, which Tony Abbott had suggested. Also, wont mention his role in the Australian COVID bollocks. (damn, there I go again )
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Hopefully, these idiots will soon believe that all of the country will be uninhabitable and move elsewhere.
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A serious critique would calculate the covariance matrices or pairwise differences of the Darwin and neighbouring stations to test for statistical discontinuities. Have Jennifer or Jo attempted this? If not, this is just vague hand-waving.
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Did you read the article? Did you also click the link to Jo’s coverage of Marohasy’s previous work?
If you had read the article you would have seen the chart of other stations producing similar patterns, and the link to the study.
Or if you clicked the link to the other Jo article you would have seen that Marohasy made a chart adding Richmond to the Darwin graphic, per the extent of similar pattern across a large area.
Or you could have clicked on a few BOM stations to satisfy your own curiosity. Instead of coming here and trying to throw up doubt, when you likely knew the answer from the article. Or you could have shown how it was wrong, if you could. But attempting to sow a seed of doubt is easier and the only option.
Some stations across the top
Charters towers
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=034002&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Alice Springs Post office to 1950
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=015540&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Alice Springs airport 1950 to present
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=015590&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Old Halls Creek
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=002011&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Winton
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=37051&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Burketown
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=029004&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
Tibooburra
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=046037&p_nccObsCode=36&p_month=13
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Strop,
In the next week I will present an article with 46 of these graphs using original raw data.
I selected the 46 stations with the longest records, all starting before 1910 and still going in 2025. No cherry picking.
In summary, they average a national warming rate of about 0.7 deg C per century if you use Taverage. Just using Tmax, I get 0.6 deg C per century.
If I delete Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and 3 others with the highest Tmax and Tmin warming rate, likely UHI candidates, then I get even less warming, 0.5 deg C per century.
Thank you for your interest, Strop.
Cheers
Geoff S
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” If not, this is just vague hand-waving.”
Why would you think that Simon? Your neighbouring stations will have quite different conditions affecting the temperature, so neither can be blamed on ‘climate’. Of course statistical discontinuities in BOM data is a feature, not a bug.
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Simon,
I have studied such matters at various weather stations. One example. If you try pairwise station corrections for Melbourne, here is a graph of possibilities.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/melbminus25tav.jpg
Why do you not give a technical discussion here about how pairwise selection and mathematical derivation might be possible and accurate?
I am challenging you to make a positive contribution.
Geoff S
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Gosh. Darwin unlivable.
Give Singapore and Dubai a heads up that they are going to need better air conditioning.
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They’ve got airconditioning!
I’ve been in huge shopping centres in Singapore where I’ve soon felt too cold. Often set to 16 or 17 degrees C for massive indoor spaces. Those guys are not concerned about saving a few dollars on the power bill, gotta stay comfortable!
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Has AI helped to find the little boy Gus who disappeared at the SA sheep station?
Here’s the latest on the case and more on tonight’s news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXaZIbT2RtY
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“If we sold off the ABC we could buy a billion dollars worth of airconditioning for the poor.”
That’s every single year.
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As a denizen of Moree (Gulp!) from over 80+ years ago, with both mother’s and father’s habitation going from their childhoods, I can remember my mother slowly frying an egg on our kitchen metal-topped table! (Something that I suspect the present ‘experts’ would have not the slightest notion about.)
It might be useful for ‘the experts’ to check the meticulous weather records kept by ‘First Fleet’ officer, Lieutenant William Dawes about the ‘unprecedented’ weather from 1788 for about four years. (But I suspect that alarmist would not look: Truth is just so offensive!)
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“Extreme *e*t will make Darwin unlivable”.
Is that ‘left’ or ‘heat’?
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FWIW – fits here IMO
”
Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt”
“One of the most annoying things about climate doomsayers is the certainty with which they make their dire predictions, while simultaneously making excuses for all their past prognostications that failed to materialize. Let’s revisit a few.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/04/climate-alarmists-are-often-wrong-but-never-in-doubt/
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This is an adaptation of a famous quote by the Russian physicist Lev Landau, who said that “Cosmologists are often in error but seldom in doubt”.
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The Northern Territory IS unliveable and it has been so since before any Europeans set foot there.
Population of NSW 8,400,000 circa
Population NT 230k
You tell me if NT is liveable. It is not. And it will not be anytime soon unless gold is found and oil is extracted to run the power stations to run the air-conditioning systems and desalination plants.
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It is worth noting that in 1960 the population of Dubai was around 40k. Now somewhere around 4.0M.
And if that place isn’t the end of the earth you can see it from there.
You are right though. The NT will need something unexpected to become a major population centre.
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