We know why climate change is amplified at the poles.
But is climate change also amplified in Australia?
Or is it simply that Australia is (seemingly) more susceptible to its effects?
Perhaps they amount to the same thing, but which is it?
* 3 to 5 Years of Drought in different areas
* Also years of unprecedented heat waves
* Repeated deluges of rain
Granted, the rest of the globe, including the US, has had its share of extreme weather events as well.
But it seems even more severe in Australia.
Currently...
Aussie Bushfire Update:
Sydney's drinking water in danger:
We're not going to get these fires put out!
Baby bats being left for dead in thousands:
Expecting highest temp ever this week
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/12/aus ... nking.html
"People should be under no illusions, we're not going to get these fires put out." "We're going to do as much as we can to protected as many homes as we can, but I think for those residents in those areas and firefighters, it's going to be a really tough week."
Baby bats are being left for dead by their mothers in their thousands on the New South Wales coast in an 'abandonment event' as drought and bushfire remove crucial vegetation for the keystone species.
Australia is bracing for its highest recorded temperature ever which is currently 50.7C, (123 deg F)
Australia's nightmare summer is about to get worse, after the country's worst November in living memory suffering record-breaking wildfires, a crippling drought, toxic-smog and a long heatwave with temperatures above 40 deg C, (104 deg F) in many parts another record is about to be broken. The Aussies are bracing themselves from a hot air mass which will fuel another devasting heatwave
Sydney's drinking water in danger from the Bushfires
Sydney’s drinking water supply is at risk of the same “worst-case scenario” facing some New South Wales regional communities, where large amounts of bushfire ash have been swept into dams by heavy rainfall, a water expert has warned. Stuart Khan, a water quality security expert and environmental engineer from the University of NSW, said recent bushfires had left large deposits of ash in the Warragamba Dam catchment, which supplies 80% of the city’s drinking water.
also this year...
Ferry crossing in far-north Queensland closed after 500mm of rain in 24 hours pushed river to highest level in 118 years
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/28/daintree-river-flooding-hundreds-cut-off-after-deluge-breaks-peak-record
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unpreceden ... australia/
"Unprecedented" floods kills 300,000 cows in Australia
After more than five years of drought ,heavy rains over an almost two-week period turned dusty and parched land in Queensland state into vast swathes of mud
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-12/ ... n/11791512
Brisbane's overnight rainfall has equalled what it has received in the last six months, with a major thunderstorm bringing more than 100 millimetres to some parts of the city. East Brisbane had the biggest falls with 130mm — 112mm of that was recorded in one hour — while Brisbane city had 100mm.