Australia reports another hot year
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AUSTRALIA sweltered through its third-hottest year ever in 2014, following a record hot 2013, weather authorities reported yesterday.
The southern spring that ran from September through November last year was the country’s hottest on record, the government’s Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual statement.
The hot spring has set the stage for the current summer wildfire season to start early, with dozens of homes destroyed and thousands of people evacuated from danger zones across southern and western Australia, the bureaus said.
Seven of Australia’s 10 hottest years since records began in 1910 have occurred since 2002, the statement said.
The country’s second-hottest year was 2005.
The independently funded Climate Council think tank said the statement showed that climate change was making Australia hotter and more prone to wildfires.
“Over the past four decades, climate change has increased the occurrence of high fire danger weather in the southeast — exactly the type of conditions that have led to the early January fires in South Australia and Victoria” states, Will Steffen , a Climate Council expert, said in a statement.
The Bureau of Meteorology cited preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization that suggest 2014 will be recognized as the world’s hottest year on record.
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