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Antarctic ice melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago
Posted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Sarah Clarke on April 15th, 2013
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A report has found that the Antarctic summer ice melt is now occurring 10 times faster than it did 600 years ago.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Australian National University drilled a 360-metre ice core near the northern tip of the peninsula to to identify past temperatures.
The ice core gave an extraordinary insight into the temperatures, revealing the coolest conditions, and the lowest melt, occurred six centuries ago.
By comparison, it found temperatures now are...
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Australia: ‘Angry Summer’ made worse by climate change: Commission
Posted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Sarah Clarke on March 4th, 2013
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The latest report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the weather extremes experienced around the country this summer were made worse by climate change. The report - The Angry Summer - says the extreme heat, floods and bushfires experienced around country were all aggravated by a shifting climate, and it warns the trend is likely to continue. Climate Commission chief Professor Tim Flannery says that while Australia may have always been a land of drought and flooding rains, the...