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   Hadley has updated its v4 SST series to the end of Sept 2021.   
      
   The group is in the process of upgrading from the v3 to v4 product in   
   their global climate monitoring data but with all the pandemic stuff   
   I'm no longer sure where we are with that. I notice the v3 SST series,   
   that I normally follow and have cooked up some of my own s/w to use as   
   a baseline, has not been updated at the same time. Maybe we've   
   switched to v4 now?   
      
   The global SST has averaged around .71C above normal making Sept 2021   
   the 4th warmest in the past 172 years. Not bad for a La Nina squared.   
      
   The top 10 lists for v4 across the various regions of interest are as   
   follows:   
      
   GLOBE:   
   2015 0.82941   
   2019 0.73526   
   2014 0.71373   
   2021 0.71319	<-- new #4/172   
   2016 0.69842   
   2020 0.68883   
   2018 0.65663   
   2017 0.61850   
   2013 0.55462   
   2012 0.54827   
      
   NHEM:   
   2015 1.07844   
   2019 1.06293   
   2020 1.03922   
   2021 0.99885	<-- new #4/172   
   2014 0.97640   
   2016 0.93284   
   2018 0.87637   
   2017 0.83855   
   2003 0.73244   
   2012 0.70662   
      
   SHEM:   
   2015 0.58899   
   1997 0.50357   
   2016 0.48130   
   2014 0.44951   
   2018 0.44557   
   2021 0.42744	<-- new #6/172   
   2017 0.41447   
   2019 0.41336   
   2009 0.39700   
   2012 0.39395   
      
   TROPICS:   
   2015 0.99894   
   1997 0.70758   
   2019 0.66217   
   2016 0.65680   
   2021 0.64122	<-- new #5/172   
   2009 0.63504   
   2017 0.62559   
   1987 0.59557   
   2018 0.59358   
   2014 0.58455   
      
   --   
   We fact checked Barnaby Joyce on the relative size of fossil fuel exports.   
   Here's what we found   
   RMIT ABC Fact Check, 20 Oct 2021 21:44Z   
   Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce says that coal and fossil fuels are Australia's   
   largest export. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.  ...   
   "[R]esources" exports significantly exceed fossil fuel exports.   
   In the most recent (pandemic-affected) financial year, iron ore exports   
   exceeded the value of fossil fuel exports. On this basis alone, Mr Joyce's   
   claim is problematic.   
   ["Doesn't stack up". Mr Joyce conflated all coal, oil and NG exports   
   rather than recognize the quite different markets for each].   
      
   NSW records 372 new cases of COVID-19 and one death   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 22:42Z   
   Across the state, 92.5 per cent of those aged 16 and over have now had at   
   least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 82.3 per cent have had 2 doses.   
      
   Family wins two-year battle against Public Trustee to keep brother's   
   financial independence   
   ABC Sunshine Coast, 20 Oct 2021 20:21Z   
   Two years and $80,000 later, Sue Nunn stops the Public Trustee of Queensland   
   from charging a family member 40 per cent of his disability pension to   
   administer his finances.   
      
   BREAKING (21 Oct): The delay in Victoria's covid numbers is   
   explained. The state has announced 2232 new Delta cases in the past 24   
   hrs -- the 2nd highest number on record in AUS.  There were also 12   
   deaths.  Trends show both numbers are doubling every 10 days or so.   
   The state is still expected to open up tomorrow morning.   
      
   [La Ninno!]   
   Clean-up underway in Coffs Harbour after supercell storm causes widespread   
   damage   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 21:21Z   
   ABC Morning Briefing, Emergency services reported more than 700 calls for   
   help as the region was lashed by giant hail and damaging winds.   
   [TV news has been describing a scene of piled-up hail -- some of it   
   stones 5cm or larger -- as "snow" that will no doubt feed the   
   hillbilly meme the world is heading into a New Ice Age, esp in NSW.   
   Hail, of course, is a summer thang and generally requires low-level   
   warm moist air to be up-drafted into the higher atm that is   
   permanently below freezing].   
      
   BREAKING (21 Oct): NSW has seen an up-tick in Delta cases with 372   
   detected in the past 24 hrs.  There has also been 1 death from the   
   virus.  Health officials say there are 523 covid patients in hospital   
   with 132 in intensive care.  Meanwhile, reporters are mildly curious   
   why Victoria has not announced its daily numbers this morning.  For   
   months they were released before 9am and they are now more than 15   
   mins late.   
      
   Mandatory jab for 1 mn WA workers evokes both serious concern and   
   broad support   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 21:59Z   
   A WA govt decision to mandate the COVID-19 vaccination for 75   
   per cent of the state's workforce draws a mixed response from unions   
   and employers.   
      
   BREAKING (21 Oct): Vic has hit its 70% fully-vax target 5 days early   
   and the world record 265 days of lockdown will end in the small hrs of   
   tomorrow morning.   
   [Daily cases are trending up and over the last 4 wks doubling every   
   ~12 days.  Daily deaths are doubling every ~8 days. The 14-day   
   smoothed curves are now showing 2200+ cases/d and ~16 deaths/d].   
      
   [Nuttin Two Hyde!]   
   Government blocks bid to investigate Christian Porter over legal fee   
   donation   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 07:35Z   
   The Coalition blocks a bid to have former attorney-general Christian   
   Porter investigated over his financial disclosures, despite the Speaker of   
   the House having argued there was a case for further scrutiny.   
   [This is the first time in AUS history the Parliament has overruled   
   the Speaker when he said there was a case to investigate "unusual   
   sources of funding" for an MP].   
      
   Shopping centre roof collapses as golf ball-sized hail, ferocious winds slam   
   into NSW city   
   ABC Mid North Coast, 20 Oct 2021 07:33Z   
   The SES fields 100s of calls after a savage hailstorm lashes Coffs   
   Harbour and its surrounds, damaging homes and businesses and leaving some   
   residents wishing they had snow chains for their tyres.   
      
   [Profitable Pendemic!]   
   Leaked contracts reveal Pfizer's power to 'silence' govts and '   
   maximize profits', consumer group alleges   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 07:33Z   
   Under secretive contracts, pharmaceutical company Pfizer has the power to   
   block countries from donating their COVID-19 vaccines to other nations, and   
   can demand that govts put up their public assets as collateral.   
      
   Grains set for more bumper crops, prices to remain strong amid global shortages   
   ABC Rural, 20 Oct 2021 08:31Z   
   The latest grains cropping forecast from Rabobank predicts the current   
   winter crop will hit just under 53 mn tonnes, just slightly off 2020's   
   highs.   
      
   NSW vaccine development will strengthen resilience to further pandemics,   
   govt says   
   ABC News, 20 Oct 2021 13:03Z   
   The NSW govt takes the next step in creating a national mRNA vaccine   
   manufacturing hub to help bolster the state's resilience against future   
   pandemics.   
      
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