Estelle’s family has no water to shower or wash clothes. It’s the canary in the coal mine of Australia’s climate change reality
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While floods in the eastern states have dominated headlines, many creeks in the west have stopped flowing, dams are empty, paddocks are bare and trees are dying. But all bear the fingerprints of a changing climate.

So certainly for Australia, it’s south-west WA where that declining rainfall trend is going to be most acute," Australian National University climate scientist Nerilie Abram said.

.“But for other parts of the country, we also have other impacts of climate change, which again, will continue to worsen for as long as we’re continuing to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”

We don’t take cliante change seriously in Australia, neither does the rest of the world. The Premier of WA has stated that WAs rising greenhouse gas emissions are good for the planet.

On the otjer side.of the nation the Barrier Reef is closer to dead.

I dong blame politocans though, to take it seriously means changes to lifestyles that voters won’t tolerate. This will get much much worse

The challenge is way beyond anything we’re prepared to countenance as yet, both in terms of mitigation and in terms of adaptation

  • Professor Kevin Anderson: