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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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Australia: Tony Abbott urged rethink climate policy after hottest year on record
2014-01-03 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's political opponents have seized on confirmation that 2013 was Australia's hottest year on record, arguing it should compel the prime minister to abandon his plans to scrap the nation's carbon pricing laws. Labor and the Greens used the latest Bureau of Meteorology records to demand the Abbott government rethink its policies on climate change. The acting Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, branded Abbott a "reckless ideologue who ignores the science and is intent on listening to people...
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Australia swelters after record hot 2013; farmers slaughter cattle, bushfire warning
2014-01-02 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013. Temperatures have topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit)in large parts of Australia's key agricultural regions for most of the past week, with the mercury topping 48 degrees Celsius in the central west Queensland town of Birdsville. The heatwave is moving east across Australia,...
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Australia endures hottest year on record
2014-01-02 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday, enduring the longest heatwave ever recorded Down Under as well as destructive bushfires. "2013 was Australia's warmest year since records began in 1910," the bureau said in its annual climate statement. "Mean temperatures across Australia have generally been well above average since September 2012. Long periods of warmer-than-average days have been common, with a distinct lack of cold weather." The...
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Record deals changing for digital age
2014-01-02 01:04:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Do major record labels need to change for digital age?
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