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Australia: Climate Council finds 'clear link' between bushfires and climate change
2013-10-25 01:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is a "clear link' between climate change and bushfires, with the current New South Wales fires influenced by a rising frequency of hot, dry days, according to the climate body that had its funding withdrawn by the Coalition government. The Climate Council's findings offered a rebuke to Tony Abbott's assertion that there was no correlation between climate change and the New South Wales fires, which the prime minister renewed on Friday when he dismissed claims of a link as "complete hogwash"....
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Australia: NSW bushfires: Cooler conditions aid efforts
2013-10-24 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
7 News: Firefighters are taking advantage of cooler conditions to gain the upper hand in the battle with bushfires in the Blue Mountains amid warnings it could take weeks for them to be fully extinguished. The NSW Rural Fire Service are working to strengthen containment lines around three blazes burning uncontained in the Blue Mountains as the bushfire emergency in NSW eases. As the state's bushfire crisis enters its ninth day, there are 57 bushfires burning across the state, with 23 uncontained, the...
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Australia: Bushfires: Coalition deploys straw man against burning issue of climate change
2013-10-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government is desperately constructing a straw man to help it fight the potentially big political problem of rising public concern about climate change and scrutiny of its Direct Action policy. The straw man is the contention that anyone making a perfectly reasonable and scientifically justifiable point -- that climate change is likely to cause a higher prevalence of the weather conditions that pose a bushfire risk -- has actually been making the unreasonable and scientifically unjustifiable...
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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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Australia: Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott's refusal to link bushfires with climate change
2013-10-24 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Tony Abbott's insistence that bushfires aren't linked to climate change is like the tobacco industry claiming smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, Nobel laureate Al Gore says. In light of the New South Wales bushfire disaster, the former US vice-president says the prime minister's comment that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change reminds him of politicians in the US who received support from tobacco companies, and who then publicly argued the companies'...
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