Australia’s global warming woes to worsen: UN

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This handout aerial picture taken on January 14, 2013 and provided by Rural Fire Service (RFS) of New South Wales shows the group of buildings at the Siding Spring Observatory, a remote global research facility in New South Wales, surrounded by burnt and smoldering ground after a fire raged through the night, fueled by hot, strong winds, damaging parts of the facility. AFP PHOTO / NSW Rural Fire Service
As the planet’s temperature rises to “anywhere from 1.1 degrees Celsius to 6.4 degree Celsius” by the end of this century, the chief of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said Australia will experience worsening times. Already, the temperature Down Under has gone off the scale, and has experienced extreme summer heat, increasing the dangers from scores of bushfires. The government’s Climate Commission had warned that, as part of a global warming trend, the current weather was a taste of things to come, with heatwaves likely to be more frequent and intense in the future.


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