Climate report charts warming and sea level rises

CSIRO

The CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology’s 2010 State of the Climate Report reveals a warming of 0.7 degrees and increasing peak temperatures in Australia during the past 50 years. The publication also presents data showing:

• Highly variable rainfall across the country, with substantial increases in rainfall in northern and central parts of Australia, as well as significant decreases across much of southern and eastern Australia.
• Rapidly rising sea levels from 1993 to 2009, with levels around Australia rising, between 1.5 and 3mm per year in Australia’s south and east and between 7 and 10mm in the country’s north.

posted by seamas on March 18, 2010 at 9:06 pm · filed under