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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Bill Hare

Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense

Sun over Bondi beach
‘Climate change-fuelled warmer oceans are putting Australia’s weather on steroids, intensifying heat, rainfall and wind.’ Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Sydney’s record October heat; high winds battering both Melbourne and New Zealand, causing death and destruction; the algal bloom caused by South Australia’s marine heatwave wreaking havoc on our marine environment; coral in both the Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs suffering horrific bleaching.

There’s barely an Australian who hasn’t been affected by one extreme weather event or another, some badly. Some have lost their lives, their homes or both.

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