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Displaying 15 of about 82 results… articles published through May 2012. Issues addressed: (i) heat waves: the details; and (ii) heat waves and wild fires. … A report about the current … articles published through May 2012. Issues addressed: (i) heat waves: the details; and (ii) heat waves and wild fires. …
… climate change influence bushfires? Why are the current heat and bushfire conditions unusual? What impact does extreme heat have on Australians? And it outlines record-breaking … change has contributed to making the current extreme heat conditions and bushfires worse; iv) good community …
According to a recently released Public Risk perceptions report, 39 per cent of respondents viewed climate change as "the most serious problem facing the world in the future if nothing is done to stop it" and two-thirds thought that climate change is a serious problem "right now", reports the Daily Liberal.
… The Climate Council’s ‘2017: Record-breaking Year for Heat and Extreme Weather’ report coincides with this … new height’s in just 12 months, with more than 260 heat and low rainfall records smashed throughout one season … broke records for hot, dry conditions with more than 260 heat and low rainfall records broken throughout winter. The …
… not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of … not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of …
… new report, ‘Dangerous Summer: Escalating Bushfire, Heat and Drought Risk‘, has found this summer is shaping up … have severe effects on human health, including both direct heat illnesses (e.g. heat exhaustion) and indirect impacts (e.g. cardiovascular …
… The outside and roof of a building soak up the heat from the sun, but if they are made of materials and … as concrete, stone and asphalt, which store and re-radiate heat. A New Zealand study tested near-identical buildings … white roofs could be a viable approach to minimising the heat taken up by buildings during hotter parts of the year. …
… events (1982-83, 1986-87, 1991-92, 1997-98), three extreme heat events in the Mediterranean Sea (1999, 2003, 2006) and … places where marine species are most at risk of extreme heat in the future. Marine heatwaves are defined as periods … events (1982-83, 1986-87, 1991-92, 1997-98), three extreme heat events in the Mediterranean Sea (1999, 2003, 2006) and …
… now, no commercial crop has been designed to tolerate heat. We are working on this problem by trying to make … equation. Plants, unlike animals, cannot seek refuge from heat. The only solution is to make them better able to … crops . What happens to plants when they face extreme heat? Plants use photosynthesis to convert sunlight and …
… Sydney - Australia can expect even longer and hotter heat waves than the one now scorching wide swathes of the … position as an agricultural powerhouse. A blistering heat wave has settled over Australia's south and southeast …
… the change in probability of a Fire Weather Index, extreme heat or drought as high as was observed in 2019/20 in the … of anthropogenic climate change. As the trend in extreme heat is one of the main factors behind this increase and the models underestimate the observed trend in heat, the real increase could be much higher. This is also …
… humidity. This means they are highly vulnerable to extreme heat events as a result of climate change. For example, … that are covered by vegetation. The trapping of heat in cities, known as the urban heat island effect, has impacts on human health, animal …
… areas and some residents of cities are more exposed to heat than others. The concentration of poorer people in … one of Australia’s fastest-growing urban regions. Urban heat is known to increase rates of injury, death and disease. … than surrounding suburbs and rural areas – the urban heat island effect. Perhaps because of this, much of the …
… causes vulnerable social groups to be at greater risk of heat-related morbidity and mortality in Australian cities. It … urban surface temperatures and social groups vulnerable to heat-related morbidity and mortality as a way to enable governments to identify ‘hot spots’ for priority heat prevention and intervention, as well as the development …
… Extreme heat in cities poses a significant threat to public health … in people’s yards at reducing day time and night time heat during an extreme heatwave event in Western Adelaide. … decreasing urban land surface temperature during extreme heat. Ambitious canopy cover targets (e.g., doubling of the …