The impacts of climate disruption

The Lismore floods, the Spanish floods and Hurricane Katrina show in a climate breakdown
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People "are fundamentally rescuing themselves...I think that's something that we see again and again, unfortunately, in the absence of effective government response....Professor Mossop says the Black Summer Fires in 2019 to 2020 also saw people being "rescued by their neighbours and not by emergency services".
Australia is expected to experience worsening disasters as climate change accelerates.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/how-spanish-floods-compare-to-australian-disasters/104593016

“Out of all the focus group respondents, 62% said their governments or policy makers had made no assessment of the impact of climate change on emergency services, 9% said they didn’t know, 55% said nothing had been done to prepare for the impact of climate change, and 10% didn’t know.">>
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What Australia can learn from Spain's recent deadly floods

Australia is being urged to heed the lessons of Spain's devastating floods and make sure that warning systems and emergency response capabilities are up to tackling disasters that are becoming more frequent and more intense.

ABC News