Hot (Down) Under the Collar

onJan 6, 2006 @ 11:03 PST

The Melbourne Age reports that Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology shows the average national temperature in 2005 was 22.89, 1.09 degrees hotter than the average between 1961 and 1990 – and the hottest year on record. The Bureau further reported that:

“Since 1979, only four years have not been above the 1961 to 1990 average, the world standard for temperature averages. Australian average temperatures have risen 0.9 degrees since 1910, in line with global trends.”

To give that news some context, consider that the average daytime summer temperature in Darwin was already 42 degrees Celsius or 107.6 Fahrenheit.

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Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’

ByTaylor Noakes

onDec 8, 2025 @ 04:00 PST

The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

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Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play

ByEmily Sanders

onDec 7, 2025 @ 10:04 PST

Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.