Guardian: World leaders and street protesters were struggling in a heatwave with temperatures hovering around 40C at Brisbane’s G20 meeting. Longreach in central Queensland had 13 days straight when the maximum temperature hit 40C (104F) or higher – four days longer than the town’s previous record. Down in New South Wales and Tasmania, residents fought off bushfires. A few weeks earlier, South Australia had its hottest October on record. This was the spring of 2014, Australia’s hottest September-November......
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 21st, 2016
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