Australia scorching 2013 heat record was ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming

Washington Post: Afterwards — after the blistering heat and the bushfires – they would call it the “Angry Summer.” But whatever the description, the Australian summer of 2012-2013 provided a terrifying preview of a world under climate change. According to the country’s Bureau of Meteorology, a devastating heat wave in late 2012-early 2013 saw “records set in every State and Territory … the nationally averaged daily temperature rose to levels never previously observed, and did this for an extended period.” What......

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