Some weather stats for 2012 have just been released in Canberra.
Overall, the 10 years to 2012 was the fifth-warmest decade in Australia's history, while, globally, last year was the ninth hottest on record.
I'm not sure what that means, or what we do about it, maybe its just variable weather doing wht the weather does.
But given that four previous decades have been warmer in Australia, it hardly supports the doomsday scenario that requires a whole government department to administer.
