guardian | Last week it was announced that June was the warmest June on record
– making it the 14th consecutive month of a record being set. It comes
at a time our government and many in the media remain wilfully resistant
to efforts to combat climate change, and at a time when the data should
worry everyone.
One of the best things about the election result has been the cabinet reshuffle, which has seen Greg Hunt no longer the minister for the environment.
I once called him the emptiest suit in the history of Australian
politics, and maybe that was wrong because given how he exited the role,
perhaps a better descriptor is the biggest troll in Australian
politics.
On leaving the job Hunt, told reporters that “I feel as if my work is done.”
No minister for the environment could look at the data of global
temperatures and think their work is done – especially if the majority
of their work involved pushing the con of Direct Action onto the public.
The temperature data is now at such a point that it requires absurd
levels of conspiracy theory to suggest climate change is not occurring.
Last week the US agencies, Nasa and Noaa announced the June figures.
We shouldn’t be too shocked about them – according to Noaa it was the
14th consecutive month in which a new record had been set. The news from
Nasa is not as horrible – June was just the ninth consecutive
record-setting month.
About the best you can say about June is that at least it wasn’t as big a record as the previous months have been this year:
