Australian summers to experience more 50C days as heatwaves intensify, experts say
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/heatwave-50-degrees-hot-extreme-weather/106282460?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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Winter is better
Just a reminder that Albanese’s government continued the work that Morrison did toward making the planet uninhabitable and has approved 30+ coal/gas projects which runs directly against all science.
Also a reminder that fossil fuel donations drove these decisions. Corruption but kept legal by the major parties.
just wait till it swings to El Nino again. Then we’re gonna see some temp records
Cue the great tassie and kiwi exodus
Duh
Yep were fucked
Can we just build a big pole on one side of the country, and another on the other and drape a fuck off sized green UV shade cloth in between???
Just to clarify. These extreme temps are usually in remote areas, not the major cities. Sure it gets to 40c some days but this is a tad sensationalist.
Let’s keep extracting more coal and gas despite what the experts have been screaming for decades now
So long as they sign-off projects with a red seal of approval instead of a blue one – that will make them will violate the physics of climate science and not add further to the problem.
What a lot of people fail to understand is that the statistical significance of “once in a century” events. Because it leads to the misconception that because it has happened before in recorded history then this is totally normal because granny always told us the story of when it was this hot or when it snowed so much or whatever. But on a planet with increasingly higher concentration of CO, CO2, etc and an average temperature going up, these events stop being so rare and become the new normal. Of course, when you compare them to the data you have since 200 years ago or so, it registers as an outlier.
People will die in increasing numbers for not having proper housing insulation and AC or heating in areas where this was not a thing before.