Australian: AUSTRALIA had the second warmest year on record last year, the Bureau of Meterology confirmed today in a finding the Rudd government has seized on as fresh evidence of climate change. The BOM said 2009 “will be remembered for extreme bushfires, dust-storms, lingering rainfall deficiencies, areas of flooding and record-breaking heatwaves’. Extreme heatwaves across southern Australia during late January/early February set a new Melbourne maximum temperature record of 46.4C, new …