Letter From Australia (About the Heat)

People Without Memories Become Easily Duped

Australia has been suffering under a heat wave.  New Zealand is having one of its hottest and driest summers on record.  On cue the climate changers start beating their little drums with all the frenetic pace of the Energizer Bunny.   "See, we told you.  Global warming.  All this heat.  It's proof that the climate is changing."  Blah, blah, blah.

With one minor problem.  Just a small one.  Usually these extreme weather events are reported with a little codicil, often announced sotto voce, that runs like this: "we are experiencing the hottest summer ever since . . . "  What follows after the little preposition "since" skewers the credibility of the climate changers.

Miranda Devine takes up the case: