Your link is referring to July, the article from my link referred to August. Quite a swing then, and if you haven't noticed much the same can be said for Sydney in terms of the current rainfall pattern of unusually lengthy periods between rain and the unusually lengthy periods when it does rain.
Personally, I believe that our weather is being manipulated by humankind, but not in the terms continually pushed by alarmist media, however there has been no rise in sea levels that I can see from my home, for as long as I have lived in this area (some decades), nor do old photographs show any notable changes.
My link directly quotes from NOAA records, and being an American publication, one would expect that they are accurate. The cold summer has been reported elsewhere...as I said before .
"The NOAA Daily Weather Records for today, August 25, report that in the last 30 days there have been 331 U.S. “High Max” records set. However, there were 2,104 (more than six times as many) “Low Max” records set. The same NOAA page reports in its “Year to Date” section that 2014 has seen 7,053 High Max records set, but nearly three times that number (19,178) of Low Max records were set during the same period...
Going back a full year, NOAA further reports that in the last 365 days there have been 13,051 High Max records, but Low Max records (28,182) more than double that. Of course, we continue to see blazing headlines and breathless broadcasts from the establishment news media regarding every new high temperature record, but a near total blackout of the news of low temperature records.
Dr. Judith Curry, formerly in the AGW alarmist camp, is among the many experts who not only acknowledge the pause, but even note there actually has been a cooling trend for the past decade or so. And there is reason to believe, they say, that this trend will continue for maybe a decade or more. Writing in her Climate Etc., blog this past June 14, Curry, who is a professor of climatology and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, noted:
Attention in the public debate seems to be moving away from the 15-17 yr "pause" to the cooling since 2002 (note: I am receiving inquiries about this from journalists). This period since 2002 is scientifically interesting, since it coincides with the ‘climate shift’ circa 2001/2002 posited by Tsonis and others. This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 yr. "pause""
As you can see, it is soo easy to manipulate data to influence. Don't be taken for the ride.
