The climate is apparently not getting 'worse' because some places, like Canada, will benefit

There will be winners and losers from climate change, and that means the climate is not getting "worse".

Shackowners along the coast at Chinaman Wells on
 South Australia's Yorke Peninsula are building their
own sea wall to protect their properties from storm surges.

That's the view inside Australia's Department of Environment, which insists it provides "frank and fearless" advice to Federal Government ministers.

Jo Evans, deputy secretary of the department, told a Senate hearing on Monday that whether you used "worse" or "better" to describe climate trends depends on where you were on the globe.

"Some parts of the world — they will find some of those changes working to their advantage, some of them not so much," she said.

Last year's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identified the people and places at a higher risk from rising temperatures.

Read the story from ABC News by Jack Snape - “The climate is apparently not getting 'worse' because some places, like Canada, will benefit.”