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Australia: Cool relief, but work to be done as fires keep burning
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Thirty-seven local government areas across New South Wales will be able to access natural disaster assistance as bushfires continued to tear through the state on Wednesday evening. Affected communities such as Queanbeyan, Cooma-Monaro, Palerang and Goulburn Mulwaree will receive assistance from joint Federal and State funding, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said. Loans of up to $130,000 will be made available for eligible farmers and businesses in urgent need following the fires, which continue...
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Australia: Get used to record-breaking heat: bureau
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The heatwave that has scorched the nation since Christmas is a taste of things to come, with this week`s records set to tumble again and again in the coming years, climate scientists said. Those of us who spend our days trawling and contributing to the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilisation. The hottest average maximum temperature ever recorded across Australia -- 40.33 degrees, set on Monday -- may only stand for...
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Cooler weather aids Australia firefighters
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Cooler weather Wednesday helped firefighters douse blazes across Australia which have destroyed a handful of homes and killed thousands of livestock, but some 30 still raged out of control. Shifting winds in New South Wales have caused temperatures to significantly drop. after the state faced one of the highest-risk fire days in its history on Tuesday. While the mercury topped 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 F) in Sydney on Tuesday, it only touched 25 degrees Wednesday. The Victoria state capital...
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Australia: Extremes more common with climate change
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: SMALL rises in the average temperature can mean a big rise in the number of scorching hot days. At first glance, that might not seem logical. Shouldn't small changes in the temperature mean small changes in the frequency of scorchers? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Take Tasmania, for example. Temperatures have been rising in the island state. In the first 20 years of data available from the Bureau of Meteorology, 1911 to 1930, the temperature across Tasmania averaged 10.3 degrees...
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Australia on Fire
2013-01-09 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Australia has suffered through its hottest day on record, and more heat waves are forecast. If we want to spare our children worse to come, we need to stop creating greenhouse pollution. "A few minutes later, an image arrived which was really--it`s still quite upsetting to see the image -- it`s all of our five children underneath the jetty huddled up to neck-deep sea water which is cold, we`ve swam the day before and it was cold, said Bonnie Walker, of Dunalley, Tasmania, while describing how...
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