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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: Hottest year sparks climate change fight
2014-01-03 05:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: A sweltering 2013, Australia's hottest year on record, is the product of climate change and the warming trend is set to continue, experts say. Labor and the Greens have also seized on the record-setting weather to accuse Prime Minister Tony Abbott of ignoring the science and listening to the "tinfoil hat brigade" about climate change. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate statement shows that 2013 was Australia's hottest year since records began in 1910, with the hottest spring and summer,...
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Australia saw hottest year in 2013
2014-01-03 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, officials have said. Temperatures were 1.2C above the long term average, the warmest since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual report. The year also saw a record-warm winter that led into the most devastating fires in Sydney since 1968, it said. The warming in Australia was consistent with global climate trends, where rising temperatures were influenced by greenhouse gases, it added. According to the bureau,...
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Australias hottest year recorded in 2013
2014-01-03 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed, with temperatures 1.2C above the long-term average. The bureau said the new high, which breaks the record set in 2005 by 0.17C, "continues the trend' of steadily rising temperatures in Australia, which has seen the country warm by about 1C since 1950. The year saw a number of individual records fall, including: The warmest summer and spring seasons ever recorded. 7 January was the hottest summer...
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