WILD weather in recent days is a reminder that much more needs
to be done to combat human-induced climate change, according to
north coast climate action group Climate Change Australia (CCA).
CCA spokesman Harry Creamer said the repeat experience of high
rainfall and strong winds, resulting from a tropical low moving
south from Queensland, was what climate scientists predicted
would happen more often when the impacts of a warming atmosphere
were fed into the models. “There is a clear picture emerging of
weather events becoming more extreme, with wilder storms and
higher rainfall leading to worse flooding, and we are foolish to
ignore the lesson it is telling us,” Mr Creamer said. “If we do
nothing to combat climate change, the earth will continue to
heat and things will get worse. “The wild weather we are seeing
these days is from about 1°C of human-induced global warming
since 1900. “However, we are heading for 4°C of warming by the
end of the century, based on current pledges of greenhouse gas
reductions fr