There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record — which shows a warming of approximately 0.6 ° -0.8 °C over the last century (
depending on precisely how the warming trend is defined)-- is essentially uncontaminated by the
effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat
Island (UHI)
effect.
In some areas the
effects of climate change are already being experienced by Indigenous peoples in Australia, particularly on
island communities, in the Torres Strait and other
islands and communities along the coastline of Australia, and also those Indigenous groups whose lives, and maintenance of culture,
depends on the Murray Darling River.17