By Angus Whitley, Rebecca Keenan and Matthew Burgess
(Bloomberg) -- The road-melting heatwave (click here) that made Sydney the hottest place on Earth at the weekend may just be a taste of things to come.
Temperatures in Australia are set to rise until around 2050 due to greenhouse gas emissions already in the atmosphere, according to the country’s weather bureau.
“Australia is one country where you really can see the signal of global warming,” Karl Braganza, the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate monitoring, told reporters on a call. “We’ve locked the degree of warming in until mid-century and that means it’s likely that one of the next strong El Nino events in the coming decade or two will set a new record.”...
