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Extreme heat, coast flooding: Australia faces ‘severe’ climate risks

AFR · last updated

Northern Australia, remote communities and the outer suburbs of major cities will be uniquely susceptible to extreme heatwaves, coasting flooding and other climate change risks by 2050, according to highly detailed new analysis by the federal government.

Australia’s first system-wide analysis of national climate risk has modelled the impacts on different communities and regions under 1.5, 2 and 3 degree scenarios of global warming. Under current policy settings, all are either very high or severe by 2050.

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