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Climate Change Makes Forecasting Harder, Says Australia’s Watt

Climate change is making it harder to accurately predict extreme weather events, said Australia’s agriculture minister Murray Watt-bsp-person>, amid criticism the country’s meteorology department failed to provide timely warnings of this week’s deadly storms.

“Climate change is having an impact,” Watt told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Saturday. “The models that we’ve traditionally used are having to change because the climate is changing. That’s something that I know the Bureau is working hard on, but unfortunately, the reality is that climate change means that we are going to be living through more unpredictable weather.”

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