{"id":5380,"date":"2015-02-07T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2015-02-07T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:40:57","slug":"2013-record-heatwave-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change-climate-council-of-australia-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5380","title":{"rendered":"2013 record heatwave &#8216;virtually impossible&#8217; without climate change, Climate Council of Australia report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-02-07\/record-heat-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change-report\/6077634\" target=\"_blank\">2013 record heatwave &#8216;virtually impossible&#8217; without climate change, Climate Council of Australia report says<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"first\">A new report by the Climate Council of Australia says it would have been &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; for 2013 to be the hottest year in the country&#8217;s record without man-made emissions in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The independently-funded group used new modelling to look at the odds of extreme heat events occurring, with and without man-made emissions.<\/p>\n<p>A computer simulation of the atmosphere showed that climate change tripled the odds that the heatwaves of 2012\/2013 would occur as frequently as they did and doubled the odds that they would be as intense as they were.<\/p>\n<p>More than 123 temperature records were broken over that summer.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Will Steffen said the record temperatures of 2013 were caused by man-made emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What were the odds of that happening without the human carbon pollution, and what were the odds with human carbon pollution? The answer is quite striking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The answer is that year, 2013, being the hottest year in Australia ever, was virtually impossible without human emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 record heatwave &#8216;virtually impossible&#8217; without climate change, Climate Council of Australia report says A new report by the Climate Council of Australia says it would have been &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; for 2013 to be the hottest year in the country&#8217;s record without man-made emissions in the atmosphere. The independently-funded group used new modelling to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,113,3290,141,3289,288,3288,638],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-carbon-pollution","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-council-of-australia","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heatwave","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}