Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A new report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the heatwave and bushfires that have affected Australia this week have been exacerbated by global warming. The report - Off the Charts: Extreme Australian Summer Heat - warns of more extreme bushfires and hotter, longer, bigger and more frequent heatwaves, due to climate change. It says the number of record heat days across Australia has doubled since 1960 and more temperature records are likely to be broken as hot conditions...
URL: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2013-01-12/heatwave-exacerbated-by-climate-change-climate-commission/1073018
Enclosure: http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/CC_Jan_2013_Heatwave4.pdf
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