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Parts of Sydney are on track to experience five times the number of extreme heat days a year if something is not done to curb emissions.

If emissions continue to accelerate, Western Sydney can expect to endure up to 46 days per year over 35℃ by 2090, a new analysis from the Australia Institute finds. This is a fivefold increase from the historical average of just under nine days of extreme heat per year.

At times it has been so hot in Gemma McMillan’s home near Penrith that she has bundled up her little boy into the car just for the airconditioning.

Such a dramatic rise in extreme heat days is not inevitable. If global warming is limited to 1.5℃ this century, Western Sydney will have fewer than 17 days of 35℃ per year.

At times it has been so hot in Gemma McMillan’s home near Penrith that she has bundled up her little boy into the car just for the airconditioning.

At times it has been so hot in Gemma McMillan’s home near Penrith that she has bundled up her little boy into the car just for the airconditioning.

Inner West Council is calling on the NSW Government to use planning and building regulations to help keep Sydney cool. At Tuesday night’s meeting

Sydney at sunset. Photo: 123rf/ Andrey Moisseyev Parts of Victoria and New South Wales are sweating through an extreme heatwave that started sweeping across Australias southeast yesterday. This may seem like just a good excuse to go to the beach, but as the planet heats up and escalating temperatures become less bearable it creates more and more significant challenges to everyday life. Already, heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disaster, including floods, cyclones and ...

Are Sydney homes "uncomfortably hot" or do our expectations of comfort differ from our parents and grandparents?