Heat, rainfall, droughts, cyclones and bushfires are all on the rise, Climate Council warnsExtreme weather events linked to climate change have the potential to disrupt Australia’s summer sports obsession at elite and grassroots level, the Climate Council warns. On Tuesday the prime minister, Scott Morrison, toured flood-ravaged Townsville but declined to say much about climate change. “It’s a question of facing the facts, accepting the science and actually forming a climate policy,” Hughes said. There were 12 times more hot temperature records than cold temperature records in Australia between 2000 to 2014. The atmosphere contains more energy than 50 years ago which means more extreme weather events.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2019 16:52 UTC