END TIMES WEATHER:Australia set for the hottest year on record

AUSTRALIA is heading towards the hottest year on record and environmentalists claim temps will continue to climb unless gas emissions are
curbed.Bureau of Meteorology records show the average temperature in South Australia this year of 20.41C is almost equal to the record temperatures set in 2005 of 20.5C.Nationally, the average temperature is only 0.5C cooler than the temperatures felt at the same time two years ago,but 0.5C above the annual average.
Minimum and maximum temperatures in Adelaide this month have been slightly above the July averages.The bureau's quarterly weather outlook has forecast temperatures in the next three months will be warmer than normal over most of the country.Australian Conservation Foundation sustainability programs manager Monica Richter said 10 of the past 12 years had been the hottest on record."One can't link one event or one increased temperature through the year to climate change,but there's a pattern occurring,"she said."Scientists have been predicting that our temperatures are going to get hotter."She said the potential effects of higher temperatures would be more bushfires,
heatwaves and droughts.WWF climate change program leader Paul Toni said the warmer temperatures were consistent with climate change."The evidence is certainly building and it is heading in one direction,"he said."In the future,we can expect to see more of the same."Bureau of Meteorology climate meteorologist Darren Ray said if warm temperatures continue for the next five months,global temperatures will also be the second warmest on record.
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