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January 30, 2009
South eastern Australia is experiencing a heatwave and its a monster. Temperatures in Adelaide are around 43 degrees going down to the low 30s at night. The streets are deserted during the day; airconditioners run non-stop; power is being shut off---load shedding"--- cutting power to homes to save the national grid from collapsing. As the heatwave rolls on and on the deaths mount up.
It is the same in Melbourne. 'There have been rolling blackouts across both states with transformers out and fuses blown. Tis a foreshadowing of life with global warming:
Minister's are saying the heatwave is a one-in-100-year event. Well they said that about the current drought too. Why don't they accept that this is an indication of climate change and acknowledge that they have done little to address the problems such a warmed up world faces.We are using infrastructure built in the 1950s!
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