Simple question seems impossible to answer

Economics editor, Peter Martin, asks in The Age today a simple question that apparently has a complex and elusive answer.

He wants to know why some of us refuse to believe the world is getting hotter, even though the evidence is right there in black and white.

The opinion piece in today’s Age: “Climate change: Why some of us won't believe it's getting hotter” reflects Martin’s puzzlement even though the year just ended was one of the hottest on record. In NSW it was the absolute hottest, in Victoria the second-hottest, and in Australia the third hottest.