Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia's Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales
Outback Outlook Australia's weather map for Sunday continues to look red hot. At least it's not purple. Australian Bureau of MeteorologyAt high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Continuing Australia's trend of being majorly unpleasant this week, it got so hot in the Outback town of Oodnadatta a few days ago that you couldn't even pump gas. On Monday, temperatures in the town reached 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.76 degrees Fahrenheit), and drivers who stopped for gas were stymied when unleaded fuel became unavailable because it was vaporizing in the heat. Oodnadatta already has a claim on hot weather in Australia. It holds the country's all-time heat record from from January 1960, of 50.7 degrees Celsius. This week broke Oodnadatta's record for most consecutive days with temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius, with seven days of intense heat, and today temperatures are set to climb to 47 degrees Celsius....