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2013 confirmed as Australia's hottest year on record
2014-01-03 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia smashed its previous annual heat record in 2013, with a summer heatwave and spring hot spell among the outstanding periods of unusual warmth. The Bureau of Meteorology on Friday confirmed that last year was the hottest nationwide in more than a century of standardised records, with mean temperatures 1.2 degrees above the 1961-90 average. This event could not have happened without increasing greenhouse gases, without climate change The 12 months easily eclipsed the previous annual...
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