Well, rain everywhere.
Flash floods again hit suburbs across Sydney. Hail and wild winds were predicted. But the rainfall was the result of storms and we were spared the hail and the wind.
And have you noticed one outfit that have gone silent? The global warming apologists.
Remember the world was going to burn. We were going to fry up and dry up.
Kevin signed the Kyoto Protocol and that was going to do something about greenhouse gas emissions.
But of course as you know the Kyoto Protocol has no mandatory targets for developing countries.
Indeed, on the eve of that Bali conference China's Vice Foreign Minister said: "Most developing countries are in the process of industrialisation and urbanisation and they face the arduous task of eliminating poverty. Their need for increased energy and greenhouse gas emissions is inevitable, and they need a reasonable process of continued growth."
Kyoto is like the Aboriginal apology, it does nothing for the cause with which it's associated.
But a report by the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change recently quoted an American expert saying that deaths from weather-related events, a measure of the impact of climate change on people, peaked in the 1920s and has been falling since then.
And indeed it found that annual deaths from weather extremes in the period from 1990 to 2006, considered by the apologists to be the most dangerous period from the impact of global warming, were down by 87 per cent on the 1900 to 1989 average.
As Peter Westmore indicated recently in News Weekly, our TV screens are covered, as they have been recently, with footage of climatic extremes, cyclones, tornadoes, floods and droughts.
But as he says, all this means is that modern communication allows us to see what is happening in parts of the world which until recently we couldn't see.
And as he says, in spite of the endless repetition of the mantra that the world is facing imminent disaster from global warming, the latest scientific evidence doesn't back up the hype.
Global mean temperatures rose slightly from 1978 to 1998, but for the past nine years temperatures have actually fallen.
And as Dr David Whitehouse, a solar astronomer from the United Kingdom suggested, an explanation for this has nothing to do with man-made global warming.
As Peter Westmore reports, a recent article in the UK Independent quoted Dr Whitehouse as saying, "Something's happening to our sun. It has to do with sunspots, or rather the activity cycle their coming and going signifies."
And sunspots are associated with additional solar radiation which heats up the earth.
And he said, "Looking back through sunspot records reveals many periods when the sun's activity was high and low, and they are related to warm and cool climatic periods."
He said that with the absence of sunspots, it's possible the earth might be entering a cooler period.
Well, all that's being ignored.
All we know is that the global warming alarmists have suddenly gone silent.
Let's hope we're not going to be wasting more money on solving a problem that may not exist.
