Aust(ralia) to be hit hard by climate change [View All]

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Aust to be hit hard by climate change

Feb 23, 2008 10:35 PM

Australia stands to be one of the worst hit countries economically affected by global warming, according to a new report.

The country is facing a drastic rise in living costs as electricity prices skyrocket and now Australians could be up for the same changes New Zealanders are facing to cut greenhouse gases.

With Australians now getting used to dealing with flash flooding, its making it all the more harder to convince them that the future of life on the world's driest continent looks harsher than ever.

"Without action we're running towards dangerous points more quickly than a lot of the earlier analysis had suggested," says Ross Garnaut, an economist.

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