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Imagine it's a typical summer's day and you've just heard predictions temperatures are set to top 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of Australia.
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Australia had its fourth-warmest year on record in 2020, according to climatologists at the Bureau of Meteorology.
Despite La Niña bringing the rain and cool change, Australia endured the fourth-hottest year in history in 2020, raising the alarm for urgent action on climate change.
Scientists highlight links to climate change, call for more research.
The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires are a "wake up call" demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change in Australia, according to a group of experts who've published a new study examining the factors that caused the disaster.
Last year's Black Summer bushfires were made worse by climate change, and future risks will likely rapidly intensify for south-eastern Australia without significant efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say.
There may be cases where people collectively cause a morally significant outcome, but no individual act seems to make a difference, or at least enough of a difference to give them sufficient reason not to act as they do. Climate change is often portrayed as a case of this sort.
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Labor says the Coalition is isolated on climate change and needs to commit to net zero emissions by 2050.
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Australia has resubmitted its Paris climate goal and modified its target as "a floor" that can be met without using credits from the previous accord, but has omitted any indication it will join other nations in raising its ambition.