Climate change in Australia: Of droughts and flooding rains | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21642247-predictions-wide-brown-lands-future-get-ever-more-dire-droughts-
Australia must make its pollution-reduction targets more ambitious after 2020, the report says, and push for more action at the upcoming UN climate conference in Paris.
That will be tough. #Tony_Abbott, the prime minister, is an unapologetic climate-change sceptic who has been quoted saying coal—on which the country depends disproportionately—is “good for humanity”.