Talk about climate change: we are yet to reach the equinox, but temperatures are expected to hit 27 degrees in Sydney city today, will climb to 30 tomorrow, and stay there for the rest of the week. 93% of NSW remains in drought.

For those not on the metric system, that's over 80. In mid-September.

Gore's An Inconvenient Truth finally opened here last week, to great reviews. A transcript of Gore's appearance on local talk show, Enough Rope is Australian Conservation Foundation has put together a climate change action kit.