Australia’s weather ‘on steroids’

Global warming will only make the heatwave, bushfires and damaging floods in Australia worse. This was according to Bureau of Meteorology which confirmed on March 4 that the 3 summer months ending February 28 were the hottest season ever recorded in Australia, leading the government’s Climate Commission to label it the “Angry Summer” in a new report. The agency’s chief commissioner Tim Flannery said the summer had been one of extremes, and was in some ways like an athlete who improves their baseline performance by taking steroids.


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