Australia’s weather is becoming more chaotic and heavy rainfall bursts will continue to intensify, driven by rising temperatures. | micksfoley
Flash flooding is emerging as a growing natural disaster threat for Australia as the recent State of the Climate report warns Australia’s weather is becoming more chaotic and heavy rainfall bursts will continue to intensify, driven by rising temperatures., authored by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, found climate change would cause “an increase in the risk of natural disasters from extreme weather”.
Risk Frontiers climate scientist Stuart Browning said floods create the most financial damage of any natural disaster, but it was extremely difficult to predict where flash floods would occur.
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