PERTH: Australian summers are lengthening by a month or more while winters are getting shorter due to climate change, according to an analysis by a leading think tank released Monday. The Australia Institute said large swathes of the country were experiencing an additional 31 days of summer temperatures each year compared to the 1950s. “Summers have grown longer even in recent years, with the last five years facing summers twice as long as their winters.”Australia’s capital, Canberra, lost 35 winter days while the city of Brisbane, in the country’s east, lost 31 cooler days. Merzian said global warming was making the country’s summers increasingly dangerous, with less time in winter to carry out bushfire prevention work and extreme heat causing health and economic impacts. The crisis led to renewed calls for the country’s conservative government to cut the emissions contributing to global warming.

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2020 08:48 UTC