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Keystone, Coal, and Fracking?!?!: Australia hits 129.2 degrees F
Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 8. January 2013 - 13:51
We are riding an environmental bubble and it's starting to burst.
http://news.yahoo.com/hot-australia-added-colors-weather-map-135043015.html
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Too Late Now: “US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide”
Their is growing consensus in the Scientific community that Global Warming was horribly understated.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-roasts-hottest-record-landslide-180545899.html
If you’re interested Melbourne, Australia’s fine newspaper has fotos and extensive coverage, here:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/60000-hectares-razed-power-cut-highway-breached-as-fires-ravage-state-20130108-2cf64.html
60,000 hectares razed, power cut, highway breached as fires ravage state
Date January 9, 2013 29
Christopher Knaus and Lisa Cox
(for info, 60,000 hectares equals a little more than 148,263 acres)
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/get-used-to-recordbreaking-heat-bureau-20130108-2cet5.html#ixzz2HQZrTLWh
While temperatures vary on a local and regional scale, globally it has now been 27 years since the world experienced a month that was colder than average.
“Those of us who spend our days trawling – and contributing to – the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilisation,’’ said Liz Hanna, convener of the human health division at the Australian National University’s Climate Change Adaptation Network.
‘‘We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of warming predictions for the future, and the timescale is contracting.’’