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Australia: Tony Abbott urged rethink climate policy after hottest year on record
2014-01-03 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's political opponents have seized on confirmation that 2013 was Australia's hottest year on record, arguing it should compel the prime minister to abandon his plans to scrap the nation's carbon pricing laws. Labor and the Greens used the latest Bureau of Meteorology records to demand the Abbott government rethink its policies on climate change. The acting Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, branded Abbott a "reckless ideologue who ignores the science and is intent on listening to people...
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Australia: Hottest year sparks climate change fight
2014-01-03 05:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: A sweltering 2013, Australia's hottest year on record, is the product of climate change and the warming trend is set to continue, experts say. Labor and the Greens have also seized on the record-setting weather to accuse Prime Minister Tony Abbott of ignoring the science and listening to the "tinfoil hat brigade" about climate change. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate statement shows that 2013 was Australia's hottest year since records began in 1910, with the hottest spring and summer,...
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Australia saw hottest year in 2013
2014-01-03 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, officials have said. Temperatures were 1.2C above the long term average, the warmest since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual report. The year also saw a record-warm winter that led into the most devastating fires in Sydney since 1968, it said. The warming in Australia was consistent with global climate trends, where rising temperatures were influenced by greenhouse gases, it added. According to the bureau,...
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Is Australia run anti-science climate change deniers?
2014-01-03 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott once said in a speech that the climate change argument is absolute crap and then sort of tried to play it down while spewing a bunch of his own crap in a 2010 ABC radio interview. Now Abbotts top business advisor Maurice Newman is coming out saying that global warming is a delusion that is destroying Australias manufacturing industry. In an opinion piece for The Australian (premium content, Im afraid) Newman states that under Labour and the Greens, Australia...
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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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