Ditto. Wherever you go, wear this cap as a reminder to the world that you care.

The city has only one day of 41-degree heat in November - a reading of 41.8 degrees set on 25 November 1982 - in 156 years of bureau records.
"The sea breeze is expected to play some part today but not a big part," Andrew Haigh, a severe weather meteorologist at the bureau, said. Sydney's top so far has been just shy of 29 degrees.
Still, the coastal winds will be welcomed, with the eastern suburbs remaining about 5 degrees cooler than inland areas such as Penrith.Fuelling the extreme warm spell is a large hot air mass that is moving eastwards.
On Thursday, western NSW may see temperatures reach 44 degrees in towns such as Wilcannia, while a large area of South Australia is likely to climb to 45 degrees or warmer, the bureau predicts...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-weather-city-to-wilt-in-41degree-heat-as-hot-westerlies-keep-sea-breezes-at-bay-20151118-gl2lq1.html#ixzz3ru2j3Mts Follow us: @smh on Twitter | sydneymorningherald on Facebook


GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL. EXTRA CO2 IS THE CULPRIT. FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE CULPRITS. 

There are some intelligent people out there who cannot cope with the concept that global warming is induced by CO2. They have many theories about the warming of the surface of the planet, because now, apart from a few idiots at News Limited, they cannot deny that the planet is is warming up. The surface of the planet IS WARMING UP.

So they blame the sun, the elliptic wobbles of the earth around the sun and the price of fish, including volcanoes. Anyone in their right scientific minds would know that volcanoes have a tendency to COOL the atmosphere rather than warm it up.

As well the earth wobbles, understood as the Milankovich cycles are well known — and accounted for in the models of global warming. The sun, well what can we say? The sun strength varies but NOT ENOUGH BY FAR to change the climate by as much as what is calculated now in a basically stable average period.

But these denialists stick to their guns with waffle-piffle. They know more in their tight little pants that an army of scientists "who are paid to find faults in burning fossil fuels by lefty government". 

Nothing one can do anything about this deliberate ignorance, except push on and and on and on about the EXTRA CO2 added to the natural CO2 cycle.

But these "we-do-not-want-to-rock-the-boat intellectuals" don't want to feel "guilty".

Idiots. It's not a question of guilt. It's a question of measurement and quantitative analysis. THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS 100 PER CENT CORRECT. Extra CO2 is the main (with other warming gases such as methane, etc. in small percentages) culprit in warming the planet in our era, beyond the natural variation. Simple.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten's decision to float a possible 45 per cent cut in Australia’s carbon emissions by 2030 is a "mad" thought bubble, according to Coalition frontbencher Christopher Pyne.

Mr Shorten unveiled the plan today along with a pledge to work towards carbon neutrality — meaning all emissions would need to be offset — by 2050.

"The Climate Change Authority recommended a baseline emissions reduction of 45 per cent by 2030, on 2005 levels," Mr Shorten told the Lowy Institute.

"Today I announce Labor will use the Climate Change Authority's recommendation of a 45 per cent reduction as the basis for our consultations with industry, employers, unions and the community."

Labor will announce a final policy next year.

Mr Shorten is also promising a review of his party's long-term climate change goals every five years.

Industry Minister Christopher Pyne claimed such a target would cause a jump in electricity prices.

"It is a mad policy," Mr Pyne told Channel Nine.

"Bill Shorten's policy, his thought bubble, 45 per cent reduction, would require them to introduce or reintroduce a carbon tax at double the rate of the carbon tax before.

"He wants to smash household budgets and smash the economy."

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/turnbull-optimistic-about-climate-change-talks-in-paris/6978918

Tallied together, the emissions reduction announced by Shorten are still not enough.

Meanwhile, Pyne, the CONservative minister for burning coal, gas and oil in hell, is mad...

Meanwhile, the ABC FactCheck tells us about "Cleaner Coal" coming from Australia... In fact, all coal is dirty in creating emissions of CO2, and a variable amount of other pollutants. The proportion of coal burned to the amount of energy created could be a measure of "Cleanerability", but most of the "clean" coal is used in industry such as steel making (still pumping CO2 mind you), while the lesser clean coal is burned for power (electricity). There is no such thing as "clean coal".

If coal is good for humanity, then someone has forgotten to tell the world’s poorest countries. In a strongly worded statement that came out on the first day of talks at the Paris climate summit, the leaders of 30 of the world’s poorest countries said they wanted the world to be 100 per cent renewable by 2050.

The level of ambition on renewable energy and the climate target will be a key theme of these talks. There is a major push by poorer nations for their – and the world’s – energy needs to be supplied by renewable energy, as part of their insistence that the climate target be tightened to prevent average warming of more than 1.5C degrees.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said it was part of the push for a “fairer”, more “climate-proactive world.” The basic message is that they see themselves as most vulnerable to climate change, and don’t want more coal fired generation that could worsen their prospects.

This, of course, is in stark contrast with the marketing campaign of the global coal lobby – and its echo chambers in governments like Australia’s – could not be more profound.

Indeed, when Environment Minister Greg Hunt was challenged at an OECD event about the approval of the controversial Carmichael coal mine, a project that could emit more than many country’s total emissions, he retorted:

“I am not a neo-colonialist. I think the poorest should be able to make their own decisions.”

And some of them have. The call by the 30 developing countries was followed by a separate announcement on Tuesday that African countries intended to install 10GW of new renewable capacity by 2020, and up to 300 GW by 2030. The majority of this will come in solar and wind, rather than hydro. France is contributing a total of nearly $10 billion.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/paris-cop21-poor-countries-want-100-per-cent-renewables-not-coal,8448

Please Mr Hunt, let me tell you gently: DON'T ENCOURAGE INDIA TO BURN MORE OF OUR COAL, SOME OF WHICH ADANI MIGHT RESELL ON THE BLACK MARKET.

Our coal will go against our reduction of CO2, wherever it is burned in the world.