On Apr 12, 12:27 am, sir.jeanpaul-turc...@neuf.fr wrote:
> CLIMATE CHANGE HITS AUSTRALIA FIRST, AND HARDhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-australia11-2009...
> Los Angeles Times
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>
> Floods, fires, droughts, disease, extinctions and a dying Great
> Barrier Reef may be a hint of things to come globally.
> April 11, 2009
>
> In the 1959 Gregory Peck classic “On the Beach,” humanity's last
> holdouts in the aftermath of a global nuclear war huddle in Australia
> and wait for the inevitable atomic wind to carry the rest of the
> species away. When it comes to today's real-world climate crisis,
> though, Australia is going first, not last.
>
> As Times staff writer Julie Cart reported Thursday, Australia appears
> to be experiencing the effects of climate change earlier and more
> dramatically than most of the other inhabited parts of the globe. A
> Southern Hemisphere continent that was already a land of climate
> extremes has become more so in recent years. Even as the tropical
> north is deluged by flooding and warmer ocean currents are spawning
> more powerful cyclones, the parched south and interior have turned
> into baking dead zones. The results: vast brush fires, killer heat
> waves, increased tropical diseases, ruined crops, loss of livestock,
> severe water shortages and quickening species extinction.
> ( to full story, see link provided)

YES !