The heat is on all of us

LIKE many in the bush, my family keeps a close eye on rainfall.

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There are detailed records for our part of the Mallee dating to the 1880s, and I have kept them since the 1980s.

We have watched as decade averages have dropped and high temperature records topple.

Of course, some years were better for rainfall than others, but overall the trend only travels in one direction: down.

What I see on my farm tallies with what scientists around the world are saying: the climate is changing — and fast.

From federation to today Australia as a whole has warmed by more than 1C.

Does 1C matter? Well yes, a hell of a lot.

According to US weather agencies, 2017 was one of the hottest years on record for the globe. Our own Bureau of Meteorology tells us 2017 was Australia’s third warmest since 1900.

Read the story boy Steven Hobbs as puhblished in The Weekly Times - “The heat is on all of us.”