Graphic / BOMRegular 50C days in Sydney and Melbourne; once-in-a-century floods every year; mass deaths of livestock; tropical diseases invading Australia's major cities and a quarter of a million homes under water. Climate scientists have laid out a "catastrophic" future for Australia, with the weather "flipping on its head". A far more likely scenario is that global temperatures will soar by up to 3C. The Great Barrier Reef, which is already suffering, will bleach further in a 3C Australia. And the researchers insists it's not all global warming gloom.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 31, 2021 03:22 UTC