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Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense.

 Sydney’s record October heat; high winds battering both Melbourne and
New Zealand, causing death and destruction; the algal bloom caused by South
Australia’s marine heatwave wreaking havoc on our marine environment;
coral in both the Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs suffering horrific
bleaching.

There’s barely an Australian who hasn’t been affected by one
extreme weather event or another, some badly. Some have lost their lives,
their homes or both. The seas around our country are suffering a marine
heatwave. Just a few degrees above normal is causing these climate
change-fuelled warmer oceans to put our weather on steroids, intensifying
heat, rainfall and wind.

And that intense rainfall will lead to increased
plant growth, so another record bushfire season is inevitable at some
point. But this is really only the beginning: global warming has reached an
average of nearly 1.5C, and we’re set to see warming of at least 2.7C by
the end of the century if we don’t take more action.

Australians have an
obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead
of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future.

 Guardian 25th Oct 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/25/australia-fossil-gas-record-heat

October 27, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming