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Interactive map: Australia’s scorching August

03 Sep 06:00am

Filed under: Climate Change, Queensland, Records, Weather

It’s “proof” to climate change believers, “just weather” to sceptics – but to everyone it’s the arrival of summer. In winter.

View The Punch - August weather in a larger map

Weather records are often trivial matters, a question of a few tenths of some obscure measurement here and there. Last month’s heat highs streaked away from the norms like Usain Bolt taking on a field of suburban club runners.

Unless you work for Channel 10, weather people typically aren’t an excitable bunch. But the Bureau of Meteorology is calling the August heat “highly unusual” and “exceptional”, and this week issued a Special Climate Statement, its first since the heatwave that fried the southeast in February. The interactive map above shows some – just some – of the dozens of records around the country that were burnt.

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iansand says:

12:08pm | 04/09/09

The problem is that the news cycle is 24 hours, but changes in climate take a little longer. The media need colour and movement to keep themselves off the dole queues so are prepared to give oxygen to the stoopitest statement. Journalists are also out of their intellectual depth with… Read more »
Archibald says:

11:08am | 04/09/09

Mr. Pastry is correct. All unemployed virgins please attend your local employment centre urgently. Read more »

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Don’t believe the hype: music is doing better than ever

by Nick Crocker

06 Aug 05:40am

Filed under: Bands, Cds, Mp3s, Music, Music Industry, Records

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“There is nothing wrong with the music business, there is a problem with the CD business.” - Chuck D

Chuck D, Flavor Flav and a guy with really bad goatee

If you reduced the last decade’s discussion about the music industry to a single word, it would be decline.

And yet, observing music consumption over the same period, the opposite is true. More people are listening to music in more ways than ever before.

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D says:

03:00pm | 07/08/09

Hi I’m an indie muso, label. 5 years ago I assembled a working model for online mp3 retail, largely following advice that Phil Tripp & IMMEDIA! were blogging about at that time. I actually got it all set up before iTunes Aust & the majors came online - they were… Read more »
Andrew McMillen says:

09:27pm | 06/08/09

“Music industry people know what needs to be done and how things need to change, but you can’t implement that kind of shift within a multi-billion dollar industry still overly reliant on CD sales.” This point is central to the discussion. Digital distribution disrupted the business with which the record… Read more »