australia's hottest 60 years study

Let's see how the science skeptics respond to this one. Will it be

The University of Melbourne's and CSIRO's scientists are part of a conspiracy to justify carbon tax

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The University of Melbourne's and CSIRO's scientists are not qualified to do these studies and make predictions

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The data that the University of Melbourne's and CSIRO's scientists use is nonsense.

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It's the sun or some other natural phenomena that Melbourne's and CSIRO's scientists are too thick to recognise

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The University of Melbourne's and CSIRO's scientists trying to impose on or freedom of choice

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Something else

The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for a reduction in manmade carbon emissions.

In the first major study of its kind in the region, scientists at the University of Melbourne used natural data from 27 climate indicators, including tree rings, corals and ice cores to map temperature trends over the past 1,000 years.


Australia's peak scientific body, the CSIRO, has said temperatues will rise by between 1C and 5C by 2070 when compared with recent decades. It predicts the number of droughts in southern Australia will increase in the future and that there will be an increase in intense rainfall in many areas.

Australia's hottest 60 years study