Only in Shtraya, Mite.

Out on its own: Australia the only country to use climate funding to upgrade coal-fired plants

Green finance experts say Australia is out of step with World Bank, Europe and the US, which are using funding to combat global warming

By Adam Morton, March 1, 2019 04.00 AEDT

Told yah so: moolah for the mates.

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Scientists criticize Australia’s ‘questionable’ climate policy

They say the Aus$3.5-billion package will not help the country meet its Paris emissions targets.

By Bianca Nogrady, February 28, 2019.

Why is it so hard to say things clear? Australia is a climate change action cheat, a free rider. That is the first thing that comes to mind and the most appropriate.

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This summer was deadly for Australian fauna. It was other things, too:

Summer 2018-19 was hottest on record, BOM says, with little relief expected for autumn

This summer has been truly exceptional. The warmest summer on record. There have been fires, floods, heatwaves, cyclones, dust storms and snow. Now, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says there is little relief on the way this autumn.

By Kate Doyle, Updated Thu at 2:01pm

And the outlook for March-May isn’t too good:

(source)

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So far, that remark about little relief has been, unfortunately, spot on. Weather forecast for Sunday 3:

(Screenshot taken at 11:15 AEDT, source)

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Yesterday it was hotter:

Cape Bruny in Tasmania's south overtakes Hobart to set a new March temperature high
By Alison Costelloe, updated 51 minutes ago today.

Hobart broke its March record with 39.1°C at 3:00pm; not to be outdone, Cape Bruny scored 39.7°C later that day.

And smokier:

Bunyip, Yinnar South bushfires destroy five buildings as fire crisis escalates
Updated 25 minutes ago today.

The fire affected both rural properties and Bunyip (a state park).

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How climate change and regional water made the environment a NSW election issue

Mick Whitbread has lived in Bourke his entire life, but worries he will be in the last generation to do that.

By Brigid Glanville. Updated 24 minutes ago today

The town of Bourke, it seems, hasn’t had significant rain in the last seven years. They no longer have any water. Menindee and Pooncarie, courtesy of the MDBA and of the NSW COALition State Government, are in the same situation. Who will win the race to extinction? Any of these towns or the Murray cod?

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Scott Morrison and his gang are lucky this is Australia and conspiracy theories aren’t as popular here as they are in the US. If this were the US, I wouldn’t be surprised people started saying ScoMo is some kind of Putin agent intent on destroying Shtraya, mite.