Times are desperate in Australia. The predictions of climate change scientists as to the manifestations of global warming are already happening in the continent. Climate change models predict droughts, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction, and mosquito-borne illnesses. All these things are currently present in Australia.
The ‘accelerated climate crisis’ attendant to global warming is seen through Australia’s lengthy droughts, raging bush fires, monsoon flooding, fevers and other illnesses brought by mosquito-borne diseases, a general decline in wildlife volume, severe heat waves, and an ‘economic collapse in agriculture.’
For the climate change skeptics, Australia is a showcase of things to come.
In Australia, there is a death toll that is palpably connected to climate change. People die from the wildfires where a temperature of 110 degrees lasted for four days, as well as from heat waves whose temperature reaches 120 degrees. Animals have died in those conditions.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signified a mere 5% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, even if he declares that climate change is an important part of his agenda, and in spite of the fact that there are many places in the continent that have ceased to be habitable.
