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Will Western Australia take climate change seriously, or just pander to fossil fuel lobby?

You’d think that Western Australia would now go all out for renewable energy.  You’d think that Western Australia would  now renounce all projects for water intensive uranium mining.

But it seems that the W.A. government will still be fiddling around, pandering to the fossil fuel  and uranium industry, while their State burns.

WA’s south-west ‘drying out’ fast, Daniel Mercer, The West Australian,  March 14, 2012, Two of Australia’s foremost scientific agencies have warned that south-west WA is warming and drying faster than anywhere in the country and will be increasingly prone to drought.

After a record eighth heatwave in Perth this summer, the Weather Bureau and CSIRO will today release the latest biennial snapshot of climate trends in Australia. The report backs up earlier conclusions that Australia’s land and sea temperatures are rising and rainfall is shifting from southern latitudes to the country’s centre and north.

It said average temperatures were expected to increase 0.6C to 1.5C by 2030 and 1.0C to 5.0C by 2070, with particularly harsh effects on south-west WA, including Perth. The report suggested the area would have long-term reductions in rainfall and more years like 2010 – the driest ever.

Rising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the rising acidification of Australia’s oceans were noted in the report, which said it was “90 per cent likely” the trends were because of man-made global warming…… http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/13159615/was-south-west-drying-out-fast/

March 14, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming, Western Australia | climate change - global warming