Is Penny Wong or Right (3)

On ABC (Australia) Rural, Penny Wrong...er Wong had this to say

"Meanwhile, Senator Wong says the heatwave gripping south-east Australia is part of what scientists predicted would happen.
Temperatures have soared into the mid-40s across Victoria and South Australia, and the hot weather is forecast to continue for the rest of the week."
In South Australia it is the hottest for 70 years! Back to the 1930's which NASA's GISS has said was the hottest decade in the last 100 years!
"Eleven of the hottest years in history have been in the last 12..."
Really, Penny, when Dr. R.K. Pachauri head of the IPCC made the same statement, he had to retract it!

And following on from my post Is "Penny Wong or Right (2)" where she said on 4BC radio "and... and... and I... to be honest with you.. think that most Australians do have a view that this (AGW) is real ..." a poll in the Australian newspaper as at today's date records: Are the heatwaves in Victoria and South Australia evidence of global warming?
Yes 8%
No 70%
Don’t know 23%

Wong...er Wrong again, Pen!

Hottest January Day

For all those predicting that temperatures are rising, please note that Tomorrow (14/1/09) is the 70th Anniversary of Sydney's hottest January day. This was before major industrialisation, before every home had a refrigerator, TV, computer, video, gameboy, electrical washing machine. People used hand powered push mowers and very few families had a motor car. Hardly anyone flew around the world. What do you think our CO2 output was then?

And Obama is going to call CO2 a "dangerous pollutant" contributing to global warming?

Our hottest January days have been  14/1/39        45.3º;  

                                                                  13/1/ 1896  42.5º; 

                                                                  27/1/1960   42.4º;  

                                                                   4/1/1942    41.9º;  

                                                                    5/1/1863   41.6º.

Not one of the top 20 hottest January days is after 1977 when we really started pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

Remember that very hot New Year's day a few years back? Not there.

Boy oh boy and we are going to tax CO2?? Stupidity!