Climate report predicts longer heatwaves, more flooding
A turning point of deaths related to more heat wave, longer droughts in some regions, and more frequent floods, summarizing the risks of global temperatures to Australia are foreseen in the government report.
National Climate Risk Assessment He warns that no community will get rid of the effects of climate change, and that the effects will spread among various fields of agriculture, health and national security.
In the general view of the report, “future changes in the climate of Australia will not take place gradually or without any problems,” he warns.
The first example of its species modeled how global warming would affect individual communities, nation economy and environment under three different heating scenarios.
Experts believe that the Australian continent is more than 1.5C warmer than the industrial revolution before the industrial revolution.
If global temperatures increase an average of 3C compared to pre -industrial levels, the report envisages a dramatic increase in the number of Australians to die during heat waves.
In this scenario, he warns that the number of deaths related to Heatwave may increase more than 400 percent in Sydney and more than 250 percent in Melbourne.
Floods are expected to be more frequent as sea levels increase.
Tropical cyclons are expected to hit Australia less frequently, but there is a more severe and a little more south -to -day shift.
Some national estimates are also quite uncertain. Under 3C warming, for example, the amount of time spent in drought is a range of 89 percent, which is a decrease of 15 percent. At the local level, estimates are more precise.
The government also publishes a separate report, which summarizes how Australia can reduce some of the risks of global warming.
However, he warns that some risks such as sea level rise are inevitable and that Australians should learn to live through change.
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