March 25, 2010
Graph of the Day: Trend in Australia Mean Temperature, 1960-2009
- All of Australia has experienced warming over the past 50 years.
- Some areas have experienced warming since 1960 of up to 0.4ºC per decade resulting in total warming over the five decades of 1.5 to 2ºC
- Highly variable rainfall across the country, with substantial increases in rainfall in northern and central parts of Australia, as well as significant decreases across much of southern and eastern Australia.
- Rapidly rising sea levels from 1993 to 2009, with levels around Australia rising, between 1.5 and 3mm per year in Australia’s south and east and between 7 and 10mm in the country’s north
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