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by IQS.RLOW » Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:06 pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/c ... rs/8631368
Cradling her newborn baby girl, heatwave expert Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick admits to feeling torn between the joy of motherhood and anxiety over her first-born child's future.
"I always wanted a big family and I'm thrilled. But my happiness is altered by what I know is coming with climate change," she said.
"I don't like to scare people but the future's not looking very good.
"Having a baby makes it personal. Will this child suffer heatstroke just walking to school?"
"One day I measured 45 degrees outside on the porch in the shade and it was 39 on the inside. The air conditioner in the living room had broken down," she said.
"I was sleeping with wet towels on my legs to keep cool. I was thinking this is hot now and it's only going to get worse.
Adapt or die'
Professor David Griggs, who recently retired as director of the Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University, said Australia is in denial about climate change.
"Australians will have to adapt or die," he said.
He believes temperatures will rise well above 2C and may reach 5C above average by the end of this century, a forecast in line with the UN's IPCC modelling under a high emissions scenario.
He is planning to move his family to south-west England, where he said climate projections look good for the next 100 years.
"When a new fact comes in that makes me fearful I think at least I've done what I can to protect my family," he said.
"We're quite concerned, even scared. Our parents want us to have children and there are great things about having children but knowing what's happing with climate change we've been putting it off," he said.

Thank fuck for small mercies. These fucking lefty retards should just let their second class beta DNA follow its natural path and die out like it would have done years ago...and who gives this bunch of whining sooks a platform? TheirABC while taking it from your wallet.

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