There is overwhelming evidence that our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, demonstrated most recently in this report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which brings together the world’s leading scientists, and, more locally, in the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology’s State of the Climate report. This is driven by greenhouse gases from human activities, primarily from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Australian farmers know climate change is real because it’s affecting us now. This is not normal – and this is not something far away on the other side of the world, or in the future, this is happening now.
