Climate Desk: Australia`s top government-appointed climate commissioner says this week`s heatwave is occurring amid record-breaking weather around the world. "This has been a landmark event for me," Professor Tim Flannery told Climate Desk from his home in Melbourne. "When you start breaking records, and you do it consistently, and you see it over and over again, that is a good indication there`s a shift underway--this is not just within the normal variation of things."
Flannery is perhaps best known in the...