Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's behind Australia's climate 'whiplash'
January 12, 202620m 40s
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Show Notes
While firefighters in Victoria battle devastating bush fires that have destroyed homes and livestock, at the other end of the country, Queenslanders were bracing for floods from ex-tropical cyclone Koji.
Today, David Bowman, a professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania, on what causes this climate whiplash and how our changing climate is worsening our extreme weather.
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