BBC: Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, officials have said. Temperatures were 1.2C above the long term average, the warmest since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual report. The year also saw a record-warm winter that led into the most devastating fires in Sydney since 1968, it said. The warming in Australia was consistent with global climate trends, where rising temperatures were influenced by greenhouse gases, it added. According to the bureau,...