SCIENCE Are summer heatwaves caused by climate change?*

Every summer, when scorching desert winds from central Australia blow into the southern or eastern states, Australians are regaled with claims that the heatwaves are caused by global warming, aka “climate change”. A most informative analysis of the causes of summer heatwaves in Australia was published recently by Dr Roy Spencer, an award-winning meteorologist from the United States, who publishes the global temperature dataset obtained by satellites that are constantly circling the …

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