More Aussie heatwaves on horizon without climate action

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Posted in Global Warming | Tagged Global Warming

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As south-eastern Australia swelters through another day with the mercury above 40 degrees the Australian Conservation Foundation is warning heatwaves will become much more common if our Government does not get tougher on climate change. “Adelaide and Melbourne are copping it this week with several days well over 40 degrees and we will experience many more days of extreme heat every summer if we don’t start to take strong action to tackle climate change,” said ACF executive director Don Henry.

“Melbourne currently gets around nine days a year over 35 degrees, but CSIRO research shows if the world doesn’t dramatically cut emissions we could be experiencing 27 days a year like this by the end of the century and Adelaide could cop 44 days over 35 degrees, up from an average of 17 now.

“The climate change plan the Federal Government will attempt to get through Parliament this year will condemn our children to much more of this kind of extreme heat.

“If adopted globally, the Government’s weak target to cut carbon pollution by just 5-15 per cent by 2020 would mean more heatwaves, the drying up of the Murray-Darling Basin’s productivity and the end of snow in the Australian Alps,” Mr Henry said.

“We can’t change this week’s weather, but it is in our hands to shape the climate our kids will experience. We need to cut carbon pollution by at least a third by 2020 to do our bit in making sure future generations don’t have to live with dangerous climate change.”

CSIRO (2008), Projections of days over 35oC to 2100 for all capital cities under a no-mitigation case, table from the Garnaut Climate Change Review final report (2008) p. 117.