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| 17TH - 23RD JANUARY 2020 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
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According to recent figures from the World
Meteorological Organisation, globally 2019
is expected to be the second or third hottest
year since 1850. It was the hottest ever in
Australia and in Russia. The global aver-
age temperature for the last decade is also
expected to be the highest recorded,
Australia is still being ravaged by
bushfires, some of them amalgamating into
super-fires, putting pressure on beleaguered
prime minister Scott Morrison to change his
stance on support for fossil fuels.
Morrison was elected in August 2018 as
a staunch defender of the mining industry
and as a leader lukewarm on emission
reductions.
With wildfires having now killed 28
people, claimed 2,000 homes and consumed
millions of acres of land and wildlife, he
recently told a TV station: "We want to
reduce emissions and do the best job we
possibly can and get better and better and
better at it."
Climate change is being blamed for the
Australia burns
as the world gets
hotter
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Photo:
Alamy
Photo:
European
Space
Agency
