NASA DATA CONFIRMS WIDESPREAD HEATWAVE
New information printed by the United States of America space agency, NASA, has confirmed that temperatures across large areas of Australia were up to 15 degrees above average throughout the first eight days of 2013.
The data, collected
and beamed to earth from NASA's aqua satellite,
recorded temperatures across the state from
1st through 8th of January and compared them with first weeks of every year
between 2005 to 2012.
It found that large swathes of Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and also the Northern Territory were 15 degrees on top of average in early 2013.
Large parts of the rest of
the country were above average
as well.
Only areas in WA's West and Northwest, as well as the areas of the Pilbara, Gascoyne and Perth, and relativelysmall areas of the central NT recorded below average temperatures, according to the NASA data.
Only areas in WA's West and Northwest, as well as the areas of the Pilbara, Gascoyne and Perth, and relativelysmall areas of the central NT recorded below average temperatures, according to the NASA data.
"Each of the
first eight days of 2013 were among the 20 hottest days on record," NASA
said.
"The
scorching weather continued a trend of four consecutive months (September to
December 2012) where temperatures were the highest on record.”
"The
persistent heat mirrors a similar pattern that developed in the continental
United States in 2012."
NASA pointed to comments created by
Intergovernmental Panel on climate change/temperature change (IPCC) Chairman Rajendra Pachauri, throughout a gathering in Hobart last
week that connected the
heatwave to climate change.
However, some, including Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, have dismissed the link.
However, some, including Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, have dismissed the link.
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