If you can't stand the heat..

So the news from Australia is that the hottest average (Summer) maximum temperature record has been broken, again. Previously the record (in 2013) was 40.3 centigrade, but this was broken on Tuesday with a new high of 40.9. Yesterday saw that smashed and a new high of 41.9 centigrade (107 F) was reached, a whole degree higher which is pretty unusual for an average value. This is doubly worrying since Australia is already in the grip of a bush fire epidemic, these average temperatures will only make that situation there worse. What with all the ever mounting evidence for climate-change and the lack of progress shown on the international stage you have to conclude that our species has a fundamental flaw, I call it our "delusion gene", comforting answers to uncomfortable questions are irresistible to us..

Tim Minchin sums things up in the picture he posted on his Twitter feed today..