Farmers call for action on global warming

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ustralia’s farmers have banded together in asking the Australian Government to act in response to global warming.

The farmers had written an open letter to the Liberal Party declaring climate change as real and happening on their farms.

The letter says:

 "We as Aussie farmers call on the Liberal Party conference to reject the motion put by the regional and rural committee of the Liberal Party questioning the basis of climate science, and instead call for post-2020 targets to cut carbon pollution that are in line with scientists' recommendations of at least 40 per cent by 2025, and at least 60 per cent by 2030 over 2000 pollution levels."

Read the ABC Rural story - "Farmer group urges Liberal Party to take strong action on climate change”.

Aussie farmers are on the front line and want/need you signature

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ussie farmers are on the front line of rising temperatures and more extreme weather, so global warming is a priority issue for rural, regional and remote Australia.

Hot days have doubled in the last fifty years and heatwaves are longer, hotter and more intense. Climate change is already worsening drought conditions in south-west and south-east Australia and droughts are likely to worsen in many parts of the country without deep and rapid cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. The first five months of 2015 have been the hottest ever recorded.

Read and sign the letter – “An Open Letter from Farmers”.