Bloomberg: Australia, the fourth-largest wheat exporter, risked more climate-change damage than other developed countries partly because of the threat to its agriculture, said Ross Garnaut, the federal government’s adviser on the topic.
“Our agriculture is particularly vulnerable,” Garnaut told reporters in Canberra. “Australia is already a country of climate extremes where in many places in some parts of the year, temperatures are already near the upper limits of agriculture.”
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Australian Farms ‘Vulnerable’ to Climate Change, Garnaut Says
Posted by Bloomberg: Wendy Pugh on March 2nd, 2011
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