Age: What is it about the temperature that some of us find so hard to accept?
The year just ended was one of the hottest on record. In NSW it was the absolute hottest, in Victoria the second-hottest, and in Australia the third hottest.
The first step in getting people to at least agree that its getting hotter is to stop talking about how to prevent it. Muddying the two, as we do all the time, gets peoples backs up.
The measure is compiled by the Bureau of Meteorology. It dates back to 1910....