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Australia swelters after record hot 2013; farmers slaughter cattle, bushfire warning
2014-01-02 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013. Temperatures have topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit)in large parts of Australia's key agricultural regions for most of the past week, with the mercury topping 48 degrees Celsius in the central west Queensland town of Birdsville. The heatwave is moving east across Australia,...
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Australia: Climate change linked to bushfire risk says Environment Department website
2013-10-25 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's insistence that any link between climate change and bushfires is "complete hogwash' is contradicted by information published on the Department of Environment's own website, it has emerged. In an interview with News Corporation columnist Andrew Bolt, Abbott rubbished claims that climate change was influencing the New South Wales bushfires, adding that people who make such claims are "desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause'. Earlier this...
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Australian Army Started Bushfire Blazes, Climate Also Blamed
2013-10-24 03:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Live ordnance training exercises conducted by the Australian Army last week touched off a catastrophic bushfire that has burned more than 47,000 hectares of bushland, a New South Wales Rural Fire Service investigation has determined. The State Mine fire started on Marrangaroo Army Range in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales near the city of near Lithgow last Wednesday, October 16. There were no total fire bans in place at the time. Acting Minister for Defence Senator George Brandis said...
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Australias Bushfire Season Turns Sydneys Skies Orange
2013-10-19 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Australia has been enduring its hottest year on record, and the warm temperatures combined with dry conditions have sent wildfires whipping across the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales. The fires -- some of the worst in a decade -- have caused a deep haze to descend over Sydney and spurred the deployment of hundreds of firefighters across the region. Smoke from the fires blanketed Sydney. Surreal images from Quartz show eerie orange skies framing the downtown, harbor, and iconic...
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Aurora Completes Network Restoration from Bushfire Two Weeks Early
2013-01-31 17:08:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Aurora Energy proudly announced on Jan. 18, 2013 it had completed the restoration of its network electricity supply to areas in southeast Tasmania, Australia, that were devastated by bushfire exactly two weeks ago.
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