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Queensland Climate Changes

The Long Paddock -Climate Management Information for Rural Australia

Climate change threatens glaciers

GLOBAL climate is undergoing an abrupt change that could lead to the melting of most of the world's glaciers in the near future, threatening freshwater supplies in the most populous regions on earth.

Average surface temperatures in the northern hemisphere reconstructed for the last millenium show that 1998 was the warmest !