je.st
news
Tag: australia
Australia: More frequent bushfires? Fears are being realised, says emergency council
2013-10-25 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Predictions that climate change would lead to a greater frequency of bushfires and a higher average intensity of bushfires are being realised, according to the peak government and private sector body for fire and land management and emergency service authorities in Australia and New Zealand. The statement runs counter to the view of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, who insists any link between climate change and bushfires is "complete hogwash'. In a submission to a 2013 Senate committee inquiry...
Tags: australia
says
council
emergency
Australia PM: Climate Change Not Causing Wildfires
2013-10-25 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season. "That is complete hogwash," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told News Corp. Australian newspapers in an interview published on Friday. "They are desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause," he said, referring to people who link the fires to global warming and who criticize his government's...
Tags: change
australia
causing
climate
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...
Tags: change
website
department
australia
Australia: Climate change raising fire risk
2013-10-25 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Climate change is increasing the probability of extreme bushfire conditions, a report by the nation's leading climate change advisory body has found. The landmark study by the Climate Council - the independent organisation established after the Abbott government abolished the Climate Commission in September - warns of increasing days of extreme fire danger in future across south-eastern Australia. Environment Minister Greg Hunt launching an environment app in Victoria. Photo: Angela Wylie ...
Tags: change
australia
fire
risk
Australia: Climate Council finds 'clear link' between bushfires and climate change
2013-10-25 01:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is a "clear link' between climate change and bushfires, with the current New South Wales fires influenced by a rising frequency of hot, dry days, according to the climate body that had its funding withdrawn by the Coalition government. The Climate Council's findings offered a rebuke to Tony Abbott's assertion that there was no correlation between climate change and the New South Wales fires, which the prime minister renewed on Friday when he dismissed claims of a link as "complete hogwash"....
Tags: link
change
clear
australia
Sites : [493] [494] [495] [496] [497] [498] [499] [500] [501] [502] [503] [504] [505] [506] [507] [508] [509] [510] [511] [512] next »