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Have Australia's wildfires sent Tony Abbott's climate policies up in smoke?
2013-10-31 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Is nature trying to tell Tony Abbott something? No sooner had the new Australian Prime Minister started to dismantle the last government's policies for reducing carbon emissions, than wildfires swept across New South Wales, reigniting as it were the debate over climate change. The fires the worst in the state for two decades followed unprecedentedly high temperatures. Both July and September were the hottest ever recorded in the state, with August only just falling short. And October is...
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Australia's small farmers struggling with low prices
2013-10-31 01:26:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Australia's small farmers struggling with low prices
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Australias Bushfires and the Role of Climate Change
2013-10-24 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Bushfires that started earlier this week in Australia continue to burn around Sydney. The blazes have charred more than 143,000 acres as of Wednesday. Early signs suggest that these fires are in line with what to expect in a warming world, though there's still work yet to be done to determine the exact connection. Weather in New South Wales, where the fires are burning, continues to favor fires. Though temperatures are expected to drop a bit after Wednesday's high of 92°F in Sydney, low humidity...
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Why Australia's wildfires are so bad
2013-10-23 16:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A dry, warm winter set the stage for dozens of wildfires currently threatening populated areas in New South Wales, Australia. The fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and sent smoke and ash into the air over Sydney. The region, which is now entering summer, also experienced hundreds of fires this January during a catastrophic heat wave. The past three months have been among the driest 10 percent on record in New South Wales (NSW), said Todd Lane, a meteorologist at the University of Melbourne....
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Australia's bushfires inflame climate change debate
2013-10-22 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Australia's bushfires have such a long and destructive history there's almost no day of the week that hasn't been dubbed "black" or "ash" to mark a major conflagration. There was Black Thursday in Victoria in 1851, which destroyed five million hectares and claimed 12 lives -- the first large-scale bushfire in the history of white settlement in Australia. Since then there's been Red Tuesday in 1898 in Victoria, which consumed 2,000 buildings, Black Friday in Victoria in 1938 that killed 71 and...
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