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Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

icyfroth — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:03:38 GMT

Australia’s surface air temperature has already increased 0.9C since 1910, with the number of extreme heat records outnumbering extreme cool records nearly three to one since 2001.

Australia experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2014, with 2013 its warmest year on record. The heat experienced in 2013 was “unlikely” to have been caused by natural variability alone, the report stated, with such temperatures now five times more likely due to humans releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Other findings of the wide-ranging analysis, the first such Australian climate projection made since 2007, included:

The interior of Australia is set to warm more rapidly than coastal areas. Alice Springs will experience an average of 83 days a year over 40C in 2090, up from just 17 in 1995.

Melbourne will swelter through an average of 24 days above 35C by 2090, up from 11 in 1995. Sydney will experience 11 days above 35C by 2090, an increase from three days in 1995.

Australia is on course for a sea level rise of 45cm to 82cm by 2090, if emissions are not curbed. The report warned that if the Antarctic ice sheet was to collapse, sea levels would be a further “several tenths of a metre higher by late in the century”.

Extreme rainfall events will increase but overall rainfall is expected to drop in southern Australia, apart from Tasmania, during the winter and spring months – by as much as 69% by 2090.

There will be more extreme droughts, with the length of droughts increasing by between 5% and 20%, depending on how quickly greenhouse gases are cut.

Rising temperatures will result in a “greater number of days with severe fire danger”. Meanwhile, soil moisture will fall by up to 15% in southern Australia in the winter months by 2090.

Snow cover will decline, with the report stating there was “high confidence that as warming progresses there will be very substantial decreases in snowfall, increase in melt and thus reduced snow cover”.

Kevin Hennessy, a principal research scientist at the CSIRO, said it and the Bureau of Meteorology now had a greater confidence than ever in their forecasts of Australia’s climate.

“We expect land areas to warm faster than ocean areas, and polar regions faster than the tropics,” Hennessy told Guardian Australia.

Given Australia’s geographical position, that would mean much of the country was expected to warm faster than the global average.

“Australia will warm faster than the rest of the world,” Hennessy said. “Warming of 4C to 5C would have a very significant effect: there would be increases in extremely high temperatures, much less snow, more intense rainfall, more fires and rapid sea level rises.”

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What with rampaging deforestation, chemical run off and industrial emissions and pollutant, I have every reason to believe it. Especially with the freak storms and extreme heat we've been experiencing over the last decade or so.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

softail-joanie — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:37:01 GMT

hang in there icy, we;ll figure something out

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:44:29 GMT

I'd like to see the PRE homogenised temperature figures to compare.

The BOM has been making some hefty changes to past temperatures in the past few years..

Interesting they used 1910. Wasn't two of the hottest years just before 1910 and just before 1900 ?

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:45:51 GMT

Icy

What FREAK storms are you talking about ?

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

wilk1149 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:39:42 GMT

I thought only lefties believed in climate change

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

j*oono — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:49:48 GMT

No. Some righties pretend they don't believe in climate change. This will change with a new PM.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

icyfroth — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:00:43 GMT

@j*oono wrote:
No. Some righties pretend they don't believe in climate change. This will change with a new PM.

Are we going to make this political, Joono?

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

nevynreally — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:03:20 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@j*oono wrote:
No. Some righties pretend they don't believe in climate change. This will change with a new PM.
Are we going to make this political, Joono?

It's always political. Doesn't matter the topic, doesn't matter the view on the topic.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

myoclon1cjerk — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:25:04 GMT

Your first sentence is correct,nevyn.The only way the denialist camp (i.e vested interests) can stall the inevitable action is to throw money in the right direction to influence politicians to sit on their hands.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

nevynreally — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:27:06 GMT

@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Your first sentence is correct,nevyn.The only way the denialist camp (i.e vested interests) can stall the inevitable action is to throw money in the right direction to influence politicians to sit on their hands.

My entire post was correct.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:52:58 GMT

Predictions made by hysterical alarmists.......lol.

I wonder how those in the northern hemisphere feel about global warming while they dig their cars out of unusually deep snow....lol.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:59:44 GMT

Not just snow, record snow.

A mate posted a photo of his house, snow was 33 feet deep.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:00:29 GMT

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-27/usa-monster-snow-storm/6050282

Bbbbbbrrrrrr

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:21:51 GMT

I wonder how those in the northern hemisphere feel about global warming while they dig their cars out of unusually deep snow....lol.

It hasn't been referred to as "global warming" for the last 10 years......it's "Climate Change", and snowstorms in the North East are the result of changes impacting both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream. Out west, it's dry as a bone.

The deniers will continue to deny until their basement is flooded by rising seawaters.........in fact, in Miami, high tides ofter result in flooding in the streets.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:36:01 GMT

Miami has always flooded, it's not just a recent thing.

And it isnt just Climate change, like New Orleans, if you take away the sponge marshes etc,
Of course it will flood more.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

softail-joanie — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:05:30 GMT

how about this, we use Earth's own gravity, if we can direct it to move earth alittle futher from the sun, and bring the moon along with it, that's gonna be the tricky part though, if the rotation is off, it could make things worse.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

icyfroth — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:07:23 GMT

@vicr3000 wrote:
Miami has always flooded, it's not just a recent thing.

And it isnt just Climate change, like New Orleans, if you take away the sponge marshes etc,
Of course it will flood more.

which is human interference which is bringing about climate change

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:11:47 GMT

That is human interference, yes. But that one thing doesn't necessarily lead to Climate change.

The earth all buy itself makes many more significant changes to the earth and temps etc than taking away a few sponge marshes.

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:14:23 GMT

@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:
I wonder how those in the northern hemisphere feel about global warming while they dig their cars out of unusually deep snow....lol.

It hasn't been referred to as "global warming" for the last 10 years......it's "Climate Change", and snowstorms in the North East are the result of changes impacting both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream. Out west, it's dry as a bone.

The deniers will continue to deny until their basement is flooded by rising seawaters.........in fact, in Miami, high tides ofter result in flooding in the streets.

There is a reason why it hasn't been referred to as gobal warming for the last 10 years....lol.

And the climate will always change.....and alarmists will continue to be hysterical...

Re: Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

vicr3000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:19:54 GMT

We started a fire in NT that ended up probable 3 kms wide and burnt for at least 10 kms.
Thick black and White smoke for miles around.
And that wasnt the only one, by us or others.

It happens every year.

How much co2 do they produce ?