What started as a minor an Australian headline turned into a glimpse of a mysterious world-wide phenomenon.

The Australian ABC tells us that Australian searches for climate change are up 5000%:

But even the ABC admits no one is really talking about it — apparently Australians are secretly thinking about climate change at home on their computer:

Discussion of climate policy may be conspicuously absent this federal election campaign, but Google search data suggests the warming of the planet is weighing on voters' minds — at least more so than in 2019.

But strangely, they don't report actual google search results for "climate change" — instead they quote some focus groups, and talk about 5000% increases in obscure questions like "What is climate change meaning?" which no one except 12 year olds doing high school assignments probably wants to know.

So here's the last 18 years of actual Google data on Australian searches for "climate change":

Holy Smoke!

But, wait, really? Is this year really that much more exciting for "climate change" than the uber hot duo of Copenhagen and ClimateGate in 2009, or Al Gore's Nobel winning Documentary in 2007, or the massive bushfires of Dec 2019 when the whole continent was on fire?

It turns out that all the frantic interest in "climate change" in Australia happened in just one week. No, wait, it was all in just one day!

And that day Australians were interested in climate change was April 22. 

What freak event would that be, that I can't remember from three weeks ago?