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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...
Australia Feels Heat of Climate Change
2013-01-08 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Just a few months after U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney airbrushed climate change off the public agenda in the presidential campaign, Australia is providing a sober reminder that political inertia can be felt a world away. More than 100 wildfires are raging across the driest inhabited continent, and the country registered a national average temperature of 40.33 degrees Celsius (104.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the hottest day in more than a century. But while naysayers...
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Catastrophic Heat Wave Burning up Australia
2013-01-08 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Every Australian knows well the smell of burning Eucalyptus. As a kid, I remember filling bathtubs and hosing the house as embers flew overhead and the lawn turned grey with ash. The family photo albums practically lived for one month each summer in the back of the car. So regular are fires across this big, dry place (the driest inhabited continent on earth) that they are given a season unto themselves--"bushfire season"--which kicks off late December and continues through the height of Summer...
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Australia faces another week of 'catastrophic' heat
2013-01-08 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: "No relief can be expected from severe heatwave conditions for at least another week," says Danita Matusch, spokesperson for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The country is sweltering under a record-smashing "dome of heat" causing the worst fire threat on record, and forcing Australian meteorologists to add two colours to their heat maps. On Monday, the average maximum temperature across the country was 40.33 °C, surpassing the old record of 40.17 °C set in 1976. "Previously, the only time...
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Temperatures off the charts as Australia turns deep purple
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Australia's "dome of heat" has become so intense that the temperatures are rising off the charts -- literally. The air mass over the inland is still heating up - it hasn't peaked The Bureau of Meteorology's interactive weather forecasting chart has added new colours -- deep purple and pink -- to extend its previous temperature range that had been capped at 50 degrees. Deep purple ... the Bureau of Meteorology's interactive weather forecasting chart has added new colours. Photo: Bureau of...
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