This was so predicted. Science Ppl, IT WORKS.

Right, so I and my fellow epic roadtrippers on our Sydney <> Perth drive totally dodged this bullet.

Freaky orange dust storm hits Western Australia

Photo Credit: Brett Martin

"It is the heatwave that laps east and west and seems hard to dislodge. Even tropical cyclone Narelle, wandering off the north-west coast of Western Australia, has so far failed to budge the giant heat cell over the continent: http://ow.ly/gIhI4. 

Photo: This spectacular gust front associated with cyclone Narelle was captured about 25 nautical miles north-west of Onslow in Western Australia on Wednesday. The red tinge results from dust picked up from the Pilbara" Excerpt from: The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 2013



Not like scientists haven't been predicting this kind of scary-apocolyptic-esque crap for several years now. :o/  (actual reports can be found here, here, and HERE, as a starting point) We're on track with the CONSERVATIVE model, people. So lets stop with the whining at the Tokyo/Copenhagen/Qatar/insert-city-name-here Talks and TRY DOING SOMETHING TO ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM.

Even an online comic strip artist got the message before the rest of you.
SOURCE: xkcd.com

/RANT