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Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter

Posted by Soulskill on from the too-bad-the-cold-last-week-disproved-global-warming dept.

vikingpower writes "In a landmark report on bushfires and climate change (PDF), the Australian Climate Council concludes that heat waves in Australia, as driven by climate change, are becoming more frequent — and that they get hotter. 'It is crucial that communities, emergency services, health services and other authorities prepare for the increasing severity and frequency of extreme fire conditions,' says the Council in the report. Sarah Perkins, one of the report's co-authors, was interviewed by The Guardian Australia. '"While we can't blame climate change for any one event, we can certainly see its fingerprint. This is another link in the chain." Perkins said her latest work had analyzed heatwave trends up to 2013. She said the trend "just gets worse – it's a bit scary really."' In 2009, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization signaled that a Southeast Australian heatwave was the hottest in 100 years."

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  1. Pshaw... it's just weather! by CajunArson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not climate change, it's just a random weather pattern.

    Oh wait.. you said hot?

    Nevermind. Climate change.

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    1. Re:Pshaw... it's just weather! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The USA has broken 1000 record low temps in the last couple of months, but that was just weather when it happened.

      You are just confirming that the ridicule the original poster had towards people like you is correct.

  2. Climate change is now worldwide by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    50 C temps in Australia this decade (40 C temps now).

    Halfway up the Rockies in Canada (Kootenays) they are having very very low snowfall - only one meter instead of three meters.

    Massive 1000 year floods in Calgary are the new normal.

    Get ready for climate change, boys and girls, cause it's coming and China's pushing it as hard as possible by increasing coal plants 6x this next year.

    Period.

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  3. Yet another possibility by EmagGeek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An organization that derives its funding from the sense of crisis in their reports finds that the situation is quite alarming.