Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology reported that climactic change is more evidenced in Australia than the rest of the World as surface temperatures are higher than the global average. Some areas have experienced less rainfall while other areas in the continent more than the average rainfall than previously experienced.
Australia is the other country, apart from the US, that didn’t sign the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming for fear of losing Australian jobs.
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Category: Global Warming
May 11th, 2007 at 12:35 am
[…] As part of a global survey conducted by the SWS for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) and WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO), they were able to determine that 76% of Filipino’s believe that Global Warming should be addressed in a gradual manner. Results of the overall survey said that the country with the highest rate was Australia (92%) while India had the lowest (49%). Australia’s reaction is not surprising, considering that they are experiencing one of the Australia’s worst droughts, and should be more likely to be deeply supportive of measures regarding the prevention of an escalation of global warming. What’s ironic also is that Australia was one of the country’s that did not sign the Kyoto Protocol that agreed on in order to put a Worldwide cap on Carbon Emissions. […]