Buckled train tracks, grounded planes, melting bitumen and massive blackouts: the dystopian vision of the 50-degree city is closer to reality every day.
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| Sydney and Melbourne could see 50-degree days within the next few decades. |
With wildfires raging around the Arctic Circle, unprecedented heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere and record temperatures being set from Algeria to Canada, the world is getting inexorably hotter.
And the combination of rising global temperatures with increasing urban density is proving deadly.
Now, 50 degrees Celsius, once only associated with places like California's Death Valley or the desert wilderness of Oman and Iraq, is an increasingly frequent occurrence.
Read the ABC News story by Mira Adler-Gillies - “How deadly is 50-degree heat? Australia's cities face the new reality of climate change.”
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