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I watched the coronation of King Charles III last night with my 92-year-old mother. She is from the same generation as the late Queen Elizabeth II, both of them having lived through World War II in London. The air raids, the bombings, the not knowing … [Read more...] about The Coronation & The Guardian, Temperatures, Misinformation (Part 2)

I have just sent the following to Environment Reporter, The Guardian | Australia Hi Graham (Readfearn) I received an email from you late yesterday indicating you are writing a story, which I assume you are publishing in The Guardian this … [Read more...] about The Guardian, Temperatures, Misinformation (Part 1)

Since Graham Lloyd’s article ‘Mercury Rising in BOM probe row’ was published on the front page of The Weekend Australian earlier this month, there has been some confusion regarding the availability of the parallel temperature data. These are the … [Read more...] about Bureau Can’t Dodge Differences in Temperature Data

In the five years following the installation of probes in automatic weather stations (AWS) as they replaced mercury thermometers across Australia, the annual frequency of extremely hot days increased by an average 18.7%. This new analysis by … [Read more...] about Australia-wide assessment: climate change or instrument change?

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has replaced most of its mercury thermometers with platinum resistance probes in automatic weather stations. My assessment of nearly twenty years of parallel data from Mildura, and just three years of … [Read more...] about Mercury Thermometers Versus Probes in Automatic Weather Stations