Academics from the School of Art & Design (SOA&D) and the Australian National University Climate Change Institute have created a tool that allows users to see how climate change will impact temperatures for thousands of towns across Australia.
Do you like it hot? Well just move to Australia and your children might experience in their lifetime unprecedented heat. Visual design and climate change academics have teamed up to help Australians see how winter will disappear and a ‘new summer’ will emerge by 2050. The findings were a bit surprising.
- Winter will disappear completely in Australia within the next 30 years, climate researchers have warned.
- Essentially their models predict that by 2050, Australia just won’t experience winters like they used to.
Three of the four members of Australia’s council of financial regulators are now actively telling business owners and managers — and through them the boards of Australian businesses — that they need to start paying more attention to the financial risks of climate change.
Read the story from Utopia Press by Michael K. Spencer - “In Australia Winter May soon become Extinct due to Global Warming.”
