According to Scientists, when asked what will Global Warming look like they point to Australia... and it ain't pretty!
Per the L.A. Times:
Climate scientists say Australia -- beset by prolonged drought and deadly bush fires in the south, monsoon flooding and mosquito-borne fevers in the north, widespread wildlife decline, economic collapse in agriculture and killer heat waves -- epitomizes the "accelerated climate crisis" that global warming models have forecast.
Many here believe Australia already has a death toll directly connected to climate change: the 173 people who died in February during the nation's worst-ever wildfires, and 200 more who died from heat the week before. A three-person royal commission has convened to decide, among other things, whether global warming contributed to massive bush fires that destroyed entire towns and killed a quarter of Victoria state's koalas, kangaroos, birds and other wildlife.
Seriously? Somebody, pass the sunblock! I feel a heat wave comin' on! No, but really, what can we do? Yikes!
Pic lifted: Los Angeles Times / Brian Vander Brug
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