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Climate Council NEW REPORT: NSW Takes Massive Financial Hit From Climate Change A NEW REPORT from the Climate Council has found that climate-driven extreme weather disasters have cost New South Wales $9 billion in the past decade, and it is only going to get worse. The Hitting Home: The Compounding Costs of Climate Inaction report says all the types of extreme weather events that affected NSW in 2020—bushfires, heatwaves, drought, storms, coastal erosion, and flooding—will worsen due to cli...

Date Time NEW REPORT: Australia Takes Massive Financial Hit From Climate Change THE COST of extreme weather in Australia has more than doubled since the 1970s, and totalled $35 billion over the past decade, a new Climate Council report has found. “There is no doubt that we have entered an era of consequences arising from decades of climate inaction and delay,” said lead author and Climate Council spokesman, Professor Will Steffen. “And it is going to get worse. By 2038, extreme weather ev...

Photo Takver flickr.com/photos/takver Australia’s Climate Council says new data shows 2020 was the second hottest year ever recorded globally, despite the influence of La Niña conditions. The latest figures confirm that the last decade was the warmest on record, as the climate emergency worsens. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed the global average temperature for 2020 was +0.98°C above the 20th century average, and only 0.02˚C shy of the previous rec...

The past seven years on earth have been the hottest ever recorded, a trend experts say is driven by climate change and set to continue.