Global warming down under
According to the latest annual climate report of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, 15 of Australia’s 20 hottest years on record have occurred since 1980. The severe effects of global warming which Australia has suffered in recent years, including severe drought in the south-east and harsher-than-normal cyclones in the north-east, have finally led the Howard Government to reconsider climate change mitigation policies. Let’s hope that action, not just words, results.
(Thanks to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the graph.)
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