Not only are we seeing uncontrollable wildfires in Australia but we are beginning to see cascading disasters.
Drought has exacerbated fire conditions, causing fires which have led to increased food prices in Australia.Smoke haze has enveloped cities reducing economic activity, all while we begin to have flooding and storms which due to the bush fires means increased risk of landslides as lack of trees means no soil absorption and soil erosion.We are now likely at risk of contaminated water and potentially infectious diseases, there is likely future risks that will emerge that we are unaware of.
Just everyone be aware that this is what will be the real killer. We can survive one disaster but multiple disasters over and over?
It's our go-to international test number and I've had it memorized for years. It's somehow comforting to know that the temperature in Melbourne at 1 am is 14.3 degrees. I could always depend on it.
However, now it's now a "1300" number, whatever that is, and I can't get my fix. Thanks a lot.
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> Australia has posted its hottest summer and the first season in which temperatures exceeded two degrees above the long-term averages, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
> With one more day to round out the season, it is clear Australia has eclipsed the previous hottest summer set in 2012-13, David Jones, manager of the bureau's climate monitoring, told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
> While final temperatures for February will be set on Thursday, maximum and mean temperatures will come in about two degrees above the 1961-90 period the bureau uses as its benchmark.
> Rainfall was about 30 per cent below average, making it the driest summer since 1982-83, a season affected by a strong El Nino event.
> Conditions in the Pacific were at near-El Nino levels this summer, too, but temperatures were about one degree higher than that season 36 years ago.
> Despite the heat and intensifying drought, the bushfire season has been less severe than might otherwise have been expected given the temperatures.
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