Last year was the hottest, but there is hotter to come

Last year, 2013, was the hottest on record.

And now, as the ABC reports:  “UN climate change report card: Scientists predict Australia will continue to get hotter”.

A recent Melbourne meeting looked at historical records and noted that by the end of this century the record breaking temperatures of last year will among the cooler years.

“Scientists believe the world,” the report noted, “is still on track to become more than 2 degree Celsius warmer – and that potentially means whole ecosystems could be wiped out”.

According to the ABC story in the worst-case scenario (some that now seems unavoidable) for the Murray-Darling Basin, south-east and south-west Australia could mean a significant drop in agricultural production.