You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the Climate Council of Australia Ltd copyright material so long as you attribute the Climate Council of Australia Ltd and the authors in the following manner: State of Queensland: Disaster ground zero. [...] The burning Australia: the Pacific Ocean to our east, Indian of coal, oil and gas is leading to stronger Ocean to our west, Southern Ocean to our variability in the ENSO, potentially leading south, and the tropical waters to our north. [...] The impacts of the IOD are most of Australia and is the most significant pronounced in central and southeastern influence on rainfall in Queensland. [...] The Madden-Julian Oscillation influences the timing, development and strength of global monsoon patterns, and in Australia it has an effect on the timing and intensity of monsoons as well as the development of tropical cyclones. [...] and mountainous regions, and improves the simulations of climate Due to the burning of fossil fuels like extremes such as heatwaves and coal and gas, many of the symptoms of tropical cyclones.
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Table of Contents
- Key findings 4
- 1. Introduction 8
- 2. Climate pollution is driving worsening unnatural disasters 10
- 3. How climate change is hurting Queenslanders 11
- The climate impacts Queenslanders are already experiencing 12
- Bushfires 12
- Tropical cyclones 15
- Severe storms 17
- Heatwaves 17
- Marine heatwaves 18
- Ocean acidification 19
- Climate drivers of Queensland’s weather 20
- 4. Worse is on its way for Queensland 22
- The season ahead 25
- 5. Recommendations 26
- 6. Conclusion 28
- References 29
- Image credits 31
