I went to the BOM and asked them for thier explanation of the tempretures and you are all wrong! It seems that the bombing of the post office, a tree, old iunstuments and the move to the airport actally lead to an artificial cooling int he adjusted temps, and the darwin recors are not used in continental climate analysis.
"As it turns out this is not really relevant to analyses of Australian climate change because the annual climate data reported by the Bureau (such as at http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/trendmaps.cgi) do not use the Darwin record, anyway. "
