3rd January - Today's News: Australian Navy Begin Bushfire Evacuations

Mallacoota evacuations begin as thousands trapped by bushfires are transported to Navy ships

In SA, fire crews battle emergency blazes on Kangaroo Island and in the Adelaide Hills

WA's alert for fire threatening Balladonia motel downgraded but Eyre Highway still closed

How Australia bushfires spew two-thirds of national carbon emissions in one season

And rainfall figures lowest in 113 years for some Queensland farmers

Met Office: Last decade UK's 'second hottest in 100 years' - coming slightly behind the previous decade.   So it's getting colder ...... ! 

Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C - as with last week's record UK temperature it was down to foehn winds, which have, of course, always occurred in the past too.

Passengers turn into snowmen in icy video filmed after a road accident in Norilsk, northern Siberia - although reading the accounts this doesn't sound like a particularly unusual occurrence!

And a pre-hurricane climate change analysis gets major revision after the storm - and it turns out climate change had much less of an influence on the impact of 2018's Hurricane Florence than initially thought.   It also shows that scientists do check their methodology and are happy to admit their mistakes.