Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The nation's top climate scientists and science bodies have for the first time endorsed a major report that says Australia's climate has shifted permanently in some cases.
The peer-reviewed assessment notes that there is "strong consensus" around this central finding, and in some cases the weather has changed for good.
Last summer was by all means a record breaker, with 123 weather records broken in 90 days.
As well as heat waves and unprecedented temperatures, there was heavy rainfall and...