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Aussie Heatwave Nears 122°F; Severe Fire Threat Declared
2013-01-10 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia is bracing for more potentially dangerous fires, with temperatures on Friday predicted to soar close to 50°C, or 122°F, in the center of the continent and up to 46°C (115°F) in parts of heavily populated New South Wales. The return of the scorching heat follows two days of relative cool, during which fire crews tackled more than 100 blazes still burning in New South Wales and Victoria, and built containment lines for more outbreaks. "We are entering a very challenging fire weather...
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Australia: Heatwave, climate change link simplistic: Truss
2013-01-09 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Acting opposition leader Warren Truss says it is ''too simplistic'' to link the current heatwave and fires to climate change. In Brisbane on Wednesday, Mr Truss acknowledged the record heatwave, but said Australia's climate was changeable, with hot times and cold times. ''The reality is, it's being utterly simplistic to suggest that we have these fires because of climate change,'' he said. ''It's too simplistic to link one hot spell to climate change.'' Earlier this week, when touring...
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Heatwave: Australia's new weather demands a new politics
2013-01-08 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I wonder what Tony Abbott will say about the record heatwave now ravaging his country. The Australian opposition leader has repeatedly questioned the science and impacts of climate change. He has insisted that "the science is highly contentious, to say the least" and asked demonstrating what looks like a wilful ignorance "If man-made CO2 was quite the villain that many of these people say it is, why hasn't there just been a steady increase starting in 1750, and moving in a linear way up the graph?"...
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What a heatwave in Australia tells us about climate change and the extreme weather of the future
2013-01-08 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: We are barely a fortnight into the New Year, but already 2013 is producing record-breaking weather, continuing the pattern of the past 12 months. A heatwave in Australia that started in late December has intensified and now forced the Bureau of Meteorology to reset the upper limit of its daily temperature scale, as the previous record of 50.7 centigrade degrees, set in South Australia in 1960, could be dramatically smashed over the weekend. It is a measure of just how extreme this heatwave is...
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