Anyone who doubts changing and absurd weather patterns, only need to look at what occurred in Australia over Christmas. It's the middle of summer here, and on Christmas Day the residents of Melbourne had their first white Christmas in history. Yup, in the middle of summer, when the temperatures average in the low 30s (Celsius) in that city in December, it snowed. I don't mean a little bit, I mean streets turned white and needed ploughing snow. In my home city of Brisbane, which is in the state of Queensland (known as the Sunshine State as we have pretty much year 'round sunshine), Christmas Day was a scorcher in the high 30s Celsius (which was actually quite a few degrees lower than it has been in past years, and one of the "coolest" Christmases in a long time), yet the very next day I was walking around my apartment wearing a jumper, track pants and socks, and it was bloody cold.

But remember, there is no global warming......