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Australia experienced its wettest, coolest summer in at least five years due to La Niña.
Rainfall was above average across the entire season, and December 2020 was the third-wettest since records began in 1900, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
While we are past the height of La Niña in Australia, it is not quite over yet, climate expert Dr Andrea Taschetto said.
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Australia experienced its wettest December since 1900 last year.(BoM) What we are seeing now is actually past the peak of La Niña event and it s slowly fading, she explained. We are expecting that La Niña will fade and go back to normal conditions by April/May this year.
University of New South Wales
Projections of rising sea levels this century are on the money when tested against satellite and tide-gauge observations, scientists find.
Climate model projections of sea-level rises in the early 21st century are in good agreement with sea level data recorded in the corresponding period, a recent analysis has found.
And the scientists who crunched the numbers say the finding does not bode well for sea level impacts over coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in.
In an article published recently in Nature Communications, the scientists from Chinese and Australian institutions including UNSW Sydney examined the global and regional sea level projections of two reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).
Ruby Howell
Pratt Tribune
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