Australia’s Climate Change Report
Climate Change Your Green Ability 24 Marc h 2010, Australia recently released a major climate change report, clearly indicating that the continent is warming. The report is called the “State of the Climate” and was released by the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization and the Bureau of Meteorology.
The report is backed by approximately 100 years of record keeping for Australia. The scientists behind the report hope it will be evaluated without skepticism despite recent climatic report issues regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report stated that the data “clearly demonstrates that climate change is real.” According to the scientists, whether climate change is occurring in Australia or not is no longer debatable: it clearly is.
Megan Clark, who is the head of the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, stated: “We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken.” Australia experienced their warmest decade to date from 2000 to 2009, and have been in the midst of the worst drought in over 100 years for the majority of this time. A growing problem on the continent is the shifting of rain patterns.
The total amount of rainfall has remained about the same, however, the areas receiving the rain are changing. Rainfall has decreased significantly in the southwest and southeast areas of the country in just the last 50 years. The average temperature on the continent has increased 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1960, with some areas seeing an increase upwards of 2 degrees Celsius. The surface of the sea has increased an average of 0.4 degrees Celsius in the same time frame. The scientists behind the report are projecting that the temperatures will rise another 0.6 to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the year 2030.Excerpt from:Report: Australia Experiencing Distinct Signs Of Climate Change
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