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Australia Feels Heat of Climate Change
2013-01-08 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Just a few months after U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney airbrushed climate change off the public agenda in the presidential campaign, Australia is providing a sober reminder that political inertia can be felt a world away. More than 100 wildfires are raging across the driest inhabited continent, and the country registered a national average temperature of 40.33 degrees Celsius (104.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the hottest day in more than a century. But while naysayers...
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Catastrophic Heat Wave Burning up Australia
2013-01-08 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Every Australian knows well the smell of burning Eucalyptus. As a kid, I remember filling bathtubs and hosing the house as embers flew overhead and the lawn turned grey with ash. The family photo albums practically lived for one month each summer in the back of the car. So regular are fires across this big, dry place (the driest inhabited continent on earth) that they are given a season unto themselves--"bushfire season"--which kicks off late December and continues through the height of Summer...
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Australia faces another week of 'catastrophic' heat
2013-01-08 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: "No relief can be expected from severe heatwave conditions for at least another week," says Danita Matusch, spokesperson for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The country is sweltering under a record-smashing "dome of heat" causing the worst fire threat on record, and forcing Australian meteorologists to add two colours to their heat maps. On Monday, the average maximum temperature across the country was 40.33 °C, surpassing the old record of 40.17 °C set in 1976. "Previously, the only time...
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'Exceptional' heat in Australia topples records
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The extreme January heat has prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a special climate statement, with further updates planned as the scorching temperatures continue. Data for Monday is still to be fully analysed by the weather bureau, but it may be the hottest of the series and could generate a record average maximum beyond the 40.17 degrees reached on December 21, 1972. Such a result would make it six days in a row when the national average has been above 39 degrees; tomorrow is expected...
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'Dome of heat' to stretch fire services in Australia
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The tiny community of Drik Drik in the state`s south west has had a momentary reprieve from fires that threatened it on Monday night, Country Fire Authority deputy incident controller Andy Cusack said. Mr Cusack said the fire had burnt scrub near the front and a wind change had turned the fire back from Drik Drik. Its going to be a severe day and...we will see the potential for fires to start early in the day and, without much time at all, they become uncontrolled fires, which is the major...
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