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Labor bid to accept climate change refugees January 5, 2006 – 11:09AM Australia should prepare to accept climate change refugees from Pacific island nations likely to “sink” under rising sea levels, Labor says. The federal opposition will today release a Pacific climate change strategy aimed at planning for mass relocations of people living on vulnerable…

Australia’s hottest year on record Australia has officially recorded its warmest year on record. Data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology indicate that the nation’s annual mean temperature for 2005 was 1.09°C above the standard 1961-90 average, making it the warmest year since reliable, widespread temperature observations became available in 1910. The previous record of…

2005 Australia’s warmest year on record It’s official – the 2005 Australian mean temperature of 22.89°C makes 2005 Australia’s warmest year on record, announced the Hon Greg Hunt MP, Parliamentary Secretary with ministerial responsibility for Bureau of Meteorology. “The annual Australian Climate Statement released today by the Bureau of Meteorology shows that 2005 has been…

By David Wroe, CanberraJanuary 4, 2006Page 1 of 2 LAST year broke heat records by a meteorological mile — it was more than one degree hotter than average, prompting the Bureau of Meteorology to sound a renewed climate change alarm. The bureau’s annual Australian climate statement, to be released today, shows the average national temperature…

Mercury rising, stormy weather – our world is taking a battering By Michael McCarthy You see it in heat, you see it in ice, you see it in storms. Climate change without doubt became the critical environmental issue of 2005. The evidence of global warming occurring here and now mounted up during the year and…

THIS year is Australia’s hottest on record and may be the planet’s warmest for thousands of years. Extreme weather events also soared, with a historic hurricane season in the north Atlantic and heatwaves and flooding on most continents, according to an annual review by the World Meteorological Organisation. Michael Coughlan of the Australian Bureau of…

2005 – A year of record climate extremes | CBC News Online Anyone who works in the business of monitoring, forecasting or reporting weather already knows that 2005 was a busy year indeed. But climate change scientists say they’ve got the stats to show that, when it comes to wild weather, 2005 is now the…

Australia’s green think tank, the Australia Institute, has accused the Federal Government of fiddling on climate change while Australia burns. Institute executive director Clive Hamilton says the Government is pandering to the fossil fuel industry, allowing greenhouse gas emissions to continue to rise unchecked and contribute to global warming. He says recent scorching temperatures are…

Coalition urged to cool a hot pollution problem – National – theage.com.au: “Coalition urged to cool a hot pollution problem By Orietta GuerreraJanuary 3, 2006 EXTREME weather at the weekend that fanned devastating bushfires shows serious measures are needed to tackle global warming, a think tank has warned. The Australia Institute urged the Federal Government…

Searing preview of greenhouse life – National – smh.com.au: “Searing preview of greenhouse life By Wendy Frew and Aaron TimmsJanuary 3, 2006 SYDNEY can expect more of the searing temperatures that fanned fires, stopped trains, disrupted air travel and blacked out suburbs on New Year’s Day, according to CSIRO global warming projections. On average, Sydney…