“We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken,” said Megan Clark, head of Australia’s state-backed Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization. Temperatures over all of Australia’s climate has shown rising from previous years every year. Since 1960, the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 degrees Celsius, but some areas of the country had warmed by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years. The warmest decade on record is 2000 to 2009. Australian average temperatures are projected to rise by 0.6 to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.
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