In the southern hemisphere, the warming is the greatest over Australia, southern south Africa, the southern tip of south America, and the area of Antarctica near Australia. ... Governments that control building and other development along coasts must begin to plan for rising sea levels. ...
The best estimates by the CSIRO predict annual warming over Australia by 2030 to be ~1 °C. (Climate Change in Australia CSIRO Report) WWF's report ˜Australia's Inconvenient Truth' suggests just a 1-2 °C increase in temperature will devastate 60-80% of the Great Barrier Reef and eliminate 100% of Acacia species in SW Australia. ... Philippines Much of Asia, as well as wealthier areas such as the US, Russia and Australia have also experienced specific incidents of very damaging extreme weather that the climate risk index captures. ...
At the time, Australia, California, and Latin America were competing to sell carbon credits. ... She was frustrated that the government was more concerned with short term challenges than the long term global warming crisis. ... Claussen was not the only person who believed that corporations could change the governments course on global warming. ...
For instance, the New York Times mentions that Russia and Australia mostly import wheat, Brazil and Argentina buy soybean, and the United States soybeans and corn from India. ... Although climate change continues to increase its impact, there are still some solutions that India's people and the government can contribute. According to Sorensen, despite the fact that enormous weather events will continue to become more severe, the participation of the people and government can help to improve the consequences of climate change. ... The government's responsibility, on the other hand, is...
In order to get people to conserve energy effectively; it may become necessary for governments to provide incentives to encourage them to do so. ... But remember that burning fossil fuels adds about twenty billion tons of carbon dioxide to the air each year; In order to remove that much carbon dioxide from the air each year, we would need to plant enough trees to cover an area roughly the size of Australia! ...
In order to get people to conserve energy effectively; it may become necessary for governments to provide incentives to encourage them to do so. ... But remember that burning fossil fuels adds about twenty billion tons of carbon dioxide to the air each year; In order to remove that much carbon dioxide from the air each year, we would need to plant enough trees to cover an area roughly the size of Australia! ...
