Australia: Extreme weather is here to stay

Posted on April 28th, 2008 in Nature by Matt

Australia: Extreme weather is here to stay
Sydney Morning Herald: SOMETHING strange is happening to our weather. Sydney has endured the most sodden school holidays in living memory, including the longest unbroken spell of April drizzle for 77 years, a month after some state capitals sweated through the worst continuous period of baking heat ever recorded. And unseasonably early snow fell in the mountains at the weekend. “The weather’s been anything but normal over the last six months,” said Dave Williams, a senior forecaster at the …

Australia: Alarm at pulp mill ‘thirst’

Posted on March 6th, 2008 in Business, Nature by Australian: none given
Mercury: THE Gunns Ltd pulp mill would use much more water than originally forecast if dry summers persist. Previously Gunns has said that the 26,000 megalitres a year would be just over 1 per cent of the annual flow through the Trevallyn power station. However, in dry months the pulp mill allocation would comprise up to 45 per cent of daily summer flows in the South Esk basin. The substantial share of available water would occur if the Hydro was forced to reduce water releases ...

NT to get hotter, drier: CSIRO

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in General by Tag: Environment - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The CSIRO is warning there is no guarantee climate change will make the Top End wetter.