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Australians to expect longer, hotter heat wave; Adelaide set to become world's hottest city
2014-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Adelaide has become the hottest city in the world with a temperature of 46 degrees Celsius caused by Australia's record-breaking heat wave. According to a report by the Climate Council, heat waves in the country will be hotter, longer and more frequent. The Climate Council's full report is set to be released in February but the organisation revealed its findings based on a study of heat waves in Australia between 1971 and 2008. The council points to climate change as the main factor behind...
'Learned helplessness' leaves Australians in major cities unprepared to cope in natural disasters
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Emergency experts say a learned helplessness has left Australians in major cities unprepared to cope in natural disasters. With the increasing impact of extreme heatwaves, storms, fires and floods, experts say traditional reliance on emergency services and recovery support such as cash handouts needs to be urgently reviewed if Australia is to better survive both the effects and escalating costs of such disasters. Emergency expert Lewis Winter from Charles Sturt University says Australians need...
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Presto, a new way for Australians to access movies
2013-10-23 05:00:01| Digital TV News
Foxtel has announced Presto, an online entertainment service offering a monthly pass to stream Foxtel Movies, providing live and on demand access to Foxtels most popular movie content with a regularly updating collection of ad-break-free films.
Indigenous Australians 'Face Disproportionate Harm' from Climate Change
2013-10-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indigenous Australians face disproportionate harm from climate change, according to a leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The second IPCC report, which is due to be released next March, also warns that climate change could swamp $226bn worth of coastal property via sea-level rises and cause the number of heatwave-related deaths in Sydney to triple by the end of the century. It says there is high agreement among scientists that Indigenous people will face significant...
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Australians elect climate denier who pledges to dump carbon tax
2013-09-09 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In the national election held on Saturday, Australian voters faced a big choice on climate policy - a choice between fairly good and downright evil, as we explained earlier this summer. The Aussies opted for evil. Tony Abbott, the climate-denying politician who had pledged to kill a carbon tax and other climate initiatives introduced by the Labor Party government, will soon be the country`s prime minister. The Abbott-led conservative coalition of the Liberal and National parties (note the capital...
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