Yesterday was the hottest recorded winter's day in Australia at many locations around the country. Sure, we are only a few days away from the beginning of Spring, but the signs are ominous. Taken together with all the other weather-related occurrences around the world, and their often tragic attending consequences, the picture of a changing climate seems almost irrefutable.

There are still people arguing against the notion that human-induced climate change is real, but both the science and the facts on the ground in real-time argue otherwise. I think it is almost a pointless exercise to debate folks who would deny the nose on their own faces, which is essentially what they are doing, so I don't.

I wish that it weren't so, but wishing is not the same as believing that it isn't.