Sentences with phrase «bushfire events»
Extreme bushfire events are rare events and must be analysed according to the statistics relating to rare events; the breaking of a previous temperature record established 70 years earlier does not establish an underlying trend.»
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If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.
In a study released today in Nature Geoscience, we show that extreme weather events in Australia such as drought and bushfire are linked to temperature changes in the Indian Ocean.
In Australia, the extreme events are bushfires, which come from extreme heat and wind at the same time, and are probably more linked to temperature than cyclones.
Heat waves and bushfires are common during Australia's hot summer months, but climate change is worsening the underlying conditions that fuel the most extreme heat and wildfire events.
The recent heatwaves and raging bushfires have been a stark reminder of Australia's particular vulnerability to extreme weather events.
Since 1900, extreme heat events have killed more Australians than bushfires, cyclones, earthquakes, floods and severe storms combined.
He was sceptical about science that linked climate change to the increased likelihood of extreme weather events or bushfires.
Contrary to Mr Howard's assertions, Professor Flannery said climate scientists had established a direct link between global warming and an increased risk of extreme weather and events such as bushfires.
The Prime Minister's linking of the bushfires to climate change was a significant event, because it makes it much harder to backtrack politically.
As the Guardian has reported, the Australian government's own environment departmental website says there's a «growing and robust body of evidence» showing the number of extreme weather events will likely increase under climate change, and that Australia is already experiencing a rise in the number of these events, including bushfires.
He reported that the Wikipedia entry «opens up with the fact that bushfires in Australia are frequently occurring events during the hotter months of the year.
Sadly, this logical fallacy pervades the debate over heatwaves, not to mention other extreme events such as droughts, bushfires, floods and storms and even climate change itself.
Within these multi-decadal epochs significant variability exists in the magnitude and frequency of ENSO impacts resulting in elevated (or reduced depending on the climate state) risk of extreme events such as floods, bushfires and droughts.»
While the initial focus of Weather@home ANZ is on extreme events that occurred in 2013, simulations will also be performed for other years, allowing scientists to assess better the possible role of climate change in such events as the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia in 2009, the record rainfall event in Golden Bay, New Zealand in 2011 and the record rainfall events in eastern Australia in 2010 and 2011.
Meanwhile, the environment minister, Greg Hunt, said Bureau of Meteorology staff have told him that no single event can be linked to climate change, citing a Wikipedia article as proof of Australia's long history of repeated bushfires.
We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.
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After significant event like bushfires, sometimes local councils will impose new regulations and fire safety standards for bushfire prone areas.
Many insurance policies cover bushfires as an insured event.
Protection to the home and contents within it are provided in the event of fire, lightning, explosion / implosion, aircraft damage, impact damage from rail / road vehicle or animal, riot, strike, malicious damage, storm, cyclone, tempest, hurricane, tornado, flood and inundation, earthquake, subsidence and landslide including rockslide, missile testing operations, leakage from automatic sprinkler installations and bushfires.
Your child might be frightened by reminders of the event, like smoke after a bushfire or pictures on TV news.
If the traumatic event happened in your area — for example, a flood or a bushfire — child care centres, schools and local councils often offer extra support.
Children and young people affected by bushfires in the Gippsland area have been supported through a range of community events led by RAV's Traralgon Centre.
With funding from the Australian Government, we have responded to changing community needs resulting from external events, putting significant effort into supporting those affected by drought and bushfire during recent years,» he said.
Complex trauma refers to that which is sustained through prolonged or repeated events like abuse or neglect, or the death of a parent compounded by a bushfire.
This can be a car or other serious accident, physical or sexual assault, war - related events or torture, or natural disasters such as bushfires or floods.