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Australia: 'Angry Summer' made worse by climate change: Commission
2013-03-04 01:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The latest report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the weather extremes experienced around the country this summer were made worse by climate change. The report - The Angry Summer - says the extreme heat, floods and bushfires experienced around country were all aggravated by a shifting climate, and it warns the trend is likely to continue. Climate Commission chief Professor Tim Flannery says that while Australia may have always been a land of drought and flooding rains, the...
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Australia: Climate change to blame for summer of extreme heat and damaging floods, report says
2013-03-03 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: CATASTROPHIC bushfires, damaging rain and the most intense heatwave on record this summer are just a taste of what climate change will bring, a new report says. Climate Commissioner Will Steffen said the extreme weather of 2012/13 was climate change in action, and more events are on the way. In his Climate Commission report, Angry Summer, released today, Prof Steffen also said Queensland's one-in-100-year flood was one part of a "very, very unusual summer". "We've been storing extra heat...
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Australia: Climate change a key factor in extreme weather, experts say
2013-03-03 20:37:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WA Today: A few years ago, talking about weather and climate change in the same breath was a cardinal sin for scientists. Now it has become impossible to have a conversation about the weather without discussing wider climate trends, according to researchers who prepared the Australian Climate Commission's latest report. The report, The Angry Summer, says behind the litany of broken heat and rainfall records this year, a clear pattern has now emerged. ''Statistically, there is a one in 500 chance that...
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Australia: Climate change factor in record hot days with more to come
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Telegraph: AUSTRALIA'S record-breaking summer heatwave was made worse by climate change, the Climate Commission says. And people should brace for more, and harsher, hot spells. The Federal Government-funded commission will release a report today called The Angry Summer, which also warns of increasing flood risks. The report says warmer and more moist conditions have caused weather patterns to change, and while Australia has always experienced extreme weather events, they were hitting harder and more...
United Kingdom: We must adapt to climate change, Scottish secretary says
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
icLanarkshire: Scotland must find ways of adapting to a new and challenging climate, Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has said. The country's climate has changed over the last few decades. Weather is more severe and wetter, with 2011 seeing around a third more rain than the average annual amount between 1961 to 1990. A number of key bodies are to discuss how Scotland could be better prepared for extreme weather at a summit on Monday. Representatives from the Met Office, the Scottish Environment...
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