Australia suffering from accelerated greenhouse effect

THE pace of global warming is faster across Australia than in other parts of the world, climatologists said yesterday.

The driest inhabited continent, already suffering a severe drought, was waging its own climate war, said Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology climate report. Half the country was desperate for water and the other half was awash with a year’s rainfall for the entire continent.

“Most scientists agree this is part of an enhanced greenhouse effect,” said the bureau’s senior climatologist Neil Plummer.