Heatwaves, bushfires predicted to hammer NSW

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Heatwaves, bushfires predicted to hammer NSW

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/lat ... ammer-nsw/

The Climate Commission has released a report predicting record heatwaves, bushfires and rising sea levels in New South Wales because of climate change.

The report says the temperature in Sydney tops 35 degrees on just three days a year, but based on climate modelling, it will be 14 days per year by the end of the century.

Federal Climate Commissioner Professor Lesley Hughes says western Sydney is getting disproportionally hotter and drier than the rest of Sydney.

"If we compare western Sydney with the rest of Sydney, the number of hot days in western Sydney used to be three times as many as eastern Sydney, and now it's four times," she said.

"So what we are seeing is not only rising temperatures but some parts of the country are getting disproportionally hotter."

But a climate scientist with the University of Newcastle, Stewart Franks, says the report tends towards scare mongering.

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Now "Bushfires" are part of climate and are able to be predict?! I dont suppose that given they claim the ability to predict a mostly arson driven event far in the future that they can predict those fires just a few months away next summer!