The Risks of Global Warming for Queenslanders

While Queensland has experienced climate extremes in the past, Climate change is making floods, droughts, heatwaves and bushfires more frequent and more intense. The earth is currently on track to warm by 3℃ by the end of the century, and whilst this might not sound like a lot, scientists predict that this temperature increase will:

• Double the number of extreme fire days

• Reduce the yields of key crops by between 5% and 50%.

• Decrease Rainfall and intensify droughts in southeastern Australia

• Make global sea levels rise by 40-80 centimetres

• Create heatwaves that last 16-days and happen seven times a year in Queensland

• Make insurance premiums unaffordable for one in every 19 property owners