This may seem like just a good excuse to go to the beach, but as the planet warms and summers become longer and less bearable, heatwaves are coming to represent an existential threat to Australian suburbs.
Since 2019, all 33 Sydney councils have been funding a climate adaptation program that has identified heat as the number-one climate threat to Sydneysiders. In the suburb of Penrith at the foot of the Blue Mountains, the mercury hit 48.9C, making it one of the hottest places in the world on that day."It's a sense of dread," Dr Loo says about the days of forecast high temperatures.
In Sydney, the most expensive suburbs are also the coolest — the harbour and coastal areas are often 10C cooler than inland. The ad hoc reliance on shopping centres to keep cool illustrates the scale of Western Sydney's emerging heat problem, says Ms Dawson. "Overwhelmingly, they're saying political parties should have policies to address the heat in the city."
Well, like I've said so many times; when we try to manipulate climate, nature will always win. So,just get on with things,and work with nature, not against it. Maybe those better educated then I may understand?!
BOM and climatard projections have been wrong for the past 3 decades, wake up,stop the fear porn reporting!!!
DavidLeyonhjelm MehreenFaruqi like the Dams would never fill again? Like the wod would run out of fuel? Like there was going to be 50,000 Covid-19 deaths? 'Science' has been prostituted in the pursuit of fear and influence.
Plant some trees to stop concrete absorbing and radiating heat. Tony was onto something here. MehreenFaruqi - Aren’t you a civil engineer or was it social engineer? I forgot this morning.
ABC you are so full of BS
Yet another prediction to fall flat on its face like all the others stop pushing your fear porn to control the masses
Please don’t send them to Melbourne! Tell them Perth is a beautiful place.
I hope it will be too hot for you ABC neo-marxists. Why not leave now?
So 80 decades? Very misleading and really nothing factual then. 🙄
icallbullshit
Too hot for who, Eskimos?
What a load of rubbish.
Let me guess it starts with Penrith. It's already a million degrees hotter than the eastern suburbs.
Total bollocks
Climate Hysteria ... Again.
Plant some more trees
But let's keep arguing about it! 🤦♂️
And how did you work that out dills?
Who is doing these stories.....ever been to FNQ or the NT even Outback NSW.
stefoons Tell ScottMorrisonMP aka ScottyfromExtinction
How many decades so i can prepare.
The generations of people who lived in Australia before air conditioning was invented would be laughing at the pathetic weaklings of today
I wouldn't live there now. Although almost all ABC and SBS national news would be about my suburb, city & state I think I'd much rather stay way over here. Excellent point about man-made global warming though.
They the same parts that (per Tim Flannery) have been without water for more than a decade now? Last prediction I remember like this was that Brisbane would have zero water, about the day 640 thousand million litres went through most of the city
How do people work and survive in the Pilbara?
Hahahahaha
The UN has been saying the same shit ‘for decades’ 🙄 DefundTheABC DefundTheBOM
Bs.
oh no how dreadful
Think about Darwin
Bullshit
Too hot now especially if you don't need air con.
::Laughs in Arizonan::
well it didnt take long a couple of hot days and out come the morons from the ABC with the doomsday predictions. they must be spewing we have had good rainfall and a mild summer.
TheirABC at their best, another dud prediction that history will remember. You are going to need a bigger crisis then that.
More sewer journalism
Bullshit
Try summer in Perth, Alice Springs Or 1000 other places across Australia. You are printing rubbish now.
Is everyone at the abc on drugs?
icallbullshit
ABC click bait for their numbskull followers and their climate apocalypse hoaxers. Move along, nothing to see (or believe) here.
Morrison wants to set new records in GHG emissions. 55 degrees or bust
abcleftistpropaganda stop with the crap
Stop it.
I'm confused, is this a global warming thing or an Australia day political whinge about 232 years of poor colonial urban planning? Asking for a virtue signalling friend who doesn't know what meme to go with. WhitePrivilege
Won't Morrison's kids just love that 😞😞
Again with the pessimistic 'we're all gonna die' crap. The ABC won't be around in decades, which is a very good thing.
Hi, to work for the do you require any brains?
Hope this drives the house prices down....
Haha. You write this crap every time the temperature gets over 35. I recall sitting in un-air-conditioned school classrooms in the 1960s with temperatures in the high 30s and into the 40s. The teacher opened the windows. Get a grip.
strange_brew55 so all those who recently paid and currently paying obscene prices are set to lose when prices plunge to $300K or less
only possible at the taxpayer funded 'their ABC' - Ita hang your head
Oh FFS. Precious little petals.
Every time there is an actual Australian summers day, you mob are all out screaming doom and gloom. When its been super cool for most of summer, you say nothing.
So the ABC should move to the outer suburbs or even country NSW, I’ll bet they won’t
Marble Bar? They cope.
Not likely, but I guess you’re selling stories
Bullshit
Here we go again... A few warm days in a row and the loonies lose their minds.
Probably because of all the colourbond!
FakeNewsMediaClowns
I'll take a beachfront house for 500,000
Great article. If the NSW Government has no qualms legislating extreme measures to fight Covid, then it should legislate big on our heat problem. Let's get radical. Now.
The claim of abc being any way on the side of Australians is disputed
What absolute garbage!
Lol Karen
Hilarious comedy
Rubbish, there are so many things we can do to redesign cities to be cooler and more resilient to global warming. When we start focusing on solutions you will be amazed at what can be achieved. We need to start now even if we commit to a net zero by 2050.
majnasee
Fake f news .
Do you just make this stuff up?😂😂
You get to pick the colour of your roof when you build. I don't understand why all these people actively pick black or some other heat-absorbant colour. I can only assume either they don't understand how these things work, or they want to conform.
One of the vaguest headlines, but typical of climatism click bait. ‘…may’ (or may not) be too hot ‘within decades’ (is that 9.9 decades or 2?)
Suggest we use the $1bn a year wasted on the Marxist ABC & use it to install A/C within all Australian homes. Problem solved.
Come on man! You've lost the plot. It's summer, man.
Let me correct your click bait. Parts of Sydney will be a tropical playground due to increased plant growth in the next few decades
Decades ok 👍
Like the bit they plan to put the airport in!! Have they factored in the melting tarmac?
Fake news...it's called SUMMER Abc, it gets warm even hot sometimes.
It’s summer it’s Australia it’s hot
I’m willing to take that risk...happy to buy their house from them for $1.
Environmental design in Sydney is garbage
ClimateCascade - 'a cascade of dramatic changes' Sssh, don't tell the weatherboy :) ClimateChange
Rupert said it’s the work of arsonists.
File this under 'Things that will not happen'
Most parts of Sydney are too expensive for people to afford nowdays. Whats the difference, the higher bracket doesn't want to live in the arid shrublands like the rest of the plebs?
We were told 20 years ago that there would be mega-cyclones as far south as Sydney. What happened to that? Another failed prediction by the doomsday squad?
How would their ABC survive without CC hysteria. Good OLD Ita.
Funny how people are more educated now- so many have more qualifications and experience and therefore logical beliefs - more than climate scientists and medical professionals. We’ve come a long way
Hoax!
Is it time to defund the ABC?
Unfortunately Australian Federal Government is unaware of the climate crisis. MSM is complicit with spreading misinformation about scientific climate data. ClimateActionNow
Awww does that mean the cost of the housing market will come down 😏😂😂
Heard this one about 30 years ago round the time when they said it will never rain again
Nope
'may' = 'may not' = 'won't'
Not Westfield food court... that ish got aircon baby
Because concrete can't absorb heat..plant more trees and more grass..
You will go to hell for your sins of untruth.
Hmmm... I wonder, greens cry 'Global Warming', then cry 'Climate Change' does not cause enough alarm so then greens call 'Climate Collapse', though reality is, 'SUMMER' with a cool change mid 20s next week❓ Believe the science❓ - Ice age coming❓
So someone is predicting that air conditioners will cease to exist. It seems that the people of Dubai have figured out how to prosper in hot climates. Maybe the Aussies could get some tips.
Tasmania looks nice.
The horror. If only there was a solution like build reliable power stations so that air conditioning was easily and freely available.
Virtue Signalling at it's best, sorry where was this article over late December and early Jan with buckets of rainfall ? Post a story during a 4 day heat wave typical lefties
Hopefully the electorate of Cook is one of those places
Saudi's seem to cope pretty well 🙄
Just cancel summer.
Also, may not.
And suddenly COVID is not an issue. So planning for those buying up properties from this hit piece , I wonder who wrote this.
Maybe the ABC will have to leave Ultimo for the real Australia. One can only hope
Oh give me a break! What utter, utter garbage.
What utter bulldust ! Stop scaring kids with your ridiculous headlines.
What a load of rubbish!
Cue the trog CDs and their 'but this summer has been so cooooooool' BS.
Do you at the abc understand What modelling is? So if you believe in it this much then by all accords the science modelling for covid in Australia should have seen at least 500,000 deaths. So climate modelling?...when we cannot predict the weather next month. Hmmm yeah Nah
We recently moved off the Gold Coast to a far south coast, I love the GC especially the hinterland but my body just cannot cope with the summer humidity, only getting worse as I get older
They've been saying that for decades
The trend is pretty clear and the costs are already escalating. The question is how much is everyone prepared to pay or alter their standard of living to adapt at this point in time of evolution........
Ho hum.
Any of the rich parts ?
It’s still cold in Canada...
So now it's Decades 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ClimateHoax
Maybe we’ll have to adapt as the Romans did who lived in Africa In the unrelenting heat with houses underground.
I guess the property market has crashed knowing this. All good, I’ll buy the home of any Sydney ABC journalist at 40 cents on the dollar against yesterday’s price so can escape the coming apocalypse.
Melbourne's gonna be awesome!
I am sick of this Sydney centric bullshit!!!!!! Have you ever seen temps in Adelaide , Perth Darwin in Summer.? And guess what,,,, people live in these cities
Rubbish.
Oooohh so scary. Utter BS
BS. We are entering a phase of global cooling.
Complete and utter bs alert👆 DefundTheAbc
When the time comes that this was supposed to happen and doesn’t it’ll be long enough ago to pretend you didn’t say this. So ABC gets to fear monger unchecked. Pathetic.
Horeshit
Another bullshit article from that shit ABC!!
Didn't we run out of water in 2008?
Shouldn't Sydney be under water by now
Synthetic fields are not helping. Time to reconsider the amount of plastic grass going into local parks. They heat up by at least 15 deg after 27 degrees (on humid days) real grass retains moisture and is cool 😎, weird right. nofakegrass heatstress
Don’t you think we had heatwaves like this in the 1950s you dolts and no air conditioners either , you people are a joke
Utter garbage how can the idiots who put this crap up look at themselves in the mirror
The average high in Sydney in January is 27 degrees. Over the last 100 years, global warming has resulted in an average increase of 1 degree. I predict that the average high in Sydney in January in 20 years will be at most 27.2 degrees.
No joke hey. Dumb population property ponzi . There is a better way but we need to get rid of incompetent, corrupt and hysteria PR driven government that don’t give a fig about us or our sovereignty
More Alarmist predictions from so called ‘scientists’ that have been proven wrong many many times in just the past 20 years
FFS
How come this is not an emergency for both major political parties LiberalAus AustralianLabor ? AdamBandt GretaThunberg
What a load of crap
What a load of shit
Fvck off idiots
FatherBob Western Sydney gets insanely hot! Take a train from the city to the outer West and it feels like another world.
ABC 👺
Which out of work, good for nothing, seeking relevance made this prediction?
This is what happens when you put a Former triplejHack JamesPurtill writing about Climate Penrith AWS first recorded summer temps in 1996. 25 years does not Climate make. The lowest minimum was -1.8C in 16th July 2018 it was -0.4 on the 15th
The fucktards who believe this also believe wind and solar will be a reliable source of energy to power air con for 10 million people
I suppose the concrete jungle blocking the breeze and the concrete/bitumen frying pan underneath it all has nothing to do with it?
48.9° in Penrith hasn't been forgotten.
Tony Abbott has so much to answer for.
Summer hasn't changed in my time, some hot some not some in between Now summers r a climate emergency
The news cycle: Thing we said might happen didn’t happen, so we’re saying another thing might happen.
So 20 years from now, when no one has had to move because it never happened, will the do a retraction. The abc doing a Tim Flannery 😂😂😂
utter crap
Absolute bullshit
The fact these predictions never happen, does not phase them. These were meant to be unusable a decade ago.
Best you move then
It gets hot in Summer. Build a bridge and get over it.
its called summer you dickheads!!
“The desert to the east” that’s the ocean. Inland of Penrith is west. Derp.
The earth is dying.
How much does it cost to buy a house in that part of Sydney
freedom_for_selahattin_demirtaş
Already is
😂😂🤣
Tiresome. Predictable. wholistenstothiscrap
Who writes these moronic posts ... 2 to 3 days over 100 degress farenheit ( the previous scale ) constitutes an extreme heatwave In the 60's through to the 90's a heatwave, which was a regular summer experience, was described only for periods of 7 consecutive days over 100.
And there i was selling up in 1998 as it was going to be 1.5 meters under water in 2005... Right - now it going to be too hot... Sell again. These predictions have always been spot on. Or at least one of them has. Been close. Ball park close Kind off. Nearly
“May” ie won’t.
You can't call making things up reporting. Do you not think if your going to have a meeting to call climate bullshit they could have at least said Darwin .
More climate alarmism from AlwaysBiasedCrap
Oh you mean like Dubai?
PARTS of Sydney MAY be too hot WITHIN DECADES. Worded in a way so it can't be said they were wrong. There is probably more chance that the ABC will be non existent within the decade. Does the ABC focus on anything positive for our country anymore?
defundtheABC
But still you refuse to hold this government to account. Hang your head in shame. DoYourJob
One of the key changes to building standards as a result of this pandemic needs to be the ability to open windows wide and not be sealed into flats with windows which can only open a few centimetres at the bottom.
Within decades
ABC = ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT CONSTANTLY
When vegetation is removed, tall, heat absorbing structures are used as a replacements. The cooling winds are unable to maintain a lower temperature, therefore, higher localised temperatures. The problem is high concentrations of people in small areas.
Complete BS. Give it a rest.
FFS have you been to Perth in the last couple of weeks....
Nonsense.
Bull Shit !
Yea I read an article where the dinosaurs were complaining about the heat. But I'm sure all the woke lefties worried about the climate bs will be sitting in their air conditioned schools and offices lecturing the rest of us how to live out lives 🙄
The experts warned that adapting to climate change was going to be much more expensive than taking action to prevent it, but the LNP don't listen to experts do they? They don't donate. auspol
There was a documentary a few years ago outlining which parts of Australia would be unliveable by 2050, now I think it may have been a bit conservative. Sydney and I believe Perth were two cities that would be hard hit.
How can you push this shit now, when we have one of the coolest summers so far that I can remember
Their ABC dribbling BS once again. Ever been to the mid-east? UAE is poppin'
Oh come on. There's many cities in the world with summers much hotter than here, and they manage just fine. There's no need to overstate the case. Climate change is bad, but this is just obviously alarmist nonsense.
‘Extreme heatwave’? Summer. It’s called, Summer. Just like we were gonna run out of water, right?
Seems a bit extreme to me
That some climate predictions have been wrong does not disprove the observed warming trend or the growing need to adapt to climate change. Look at the science. Responsible Governments are preparing for climate impacts and seeking to cut emissions.
Abject policy failure on so many levels. Property developers have far far too much say in all levels of government.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ how many decades Hundreds, thousands Give me a number We have been living with our conditions for thousands of years, I think we are getting softer Get off your computer, get outside and toughen up Do some manual labour like they did when it was hot last century
Shel'll be right.
Don't worry they will all be dead from covid by then
Climate cult conspiracy theorise spreading lies.
“ The desert to the east acts like an open oven door, blasting hot air at the suburban sprawl.” What desert is that? The great sandy desert of Bondi? The rest of the article has a lot of truths. Only a fool would buy a house with a black roof and black concrete driveway.
More 'experts' pedalling fear to draw attention to themselves.
Yet almost every new house build in Western Sydney has black concrete roofing tiles. For any new build, if aircon is installed, solar should be mandatory, and homes should be double brick.
but they will still allow developers to throw up concrete towers and destroy nature. Corruption and greed needs to stop first to help deter those 50 degree average days
Rubbish
Western Sydney, the heatsink of Sydney, where the endless growth lobby wants to put another 1 million people over the next decade in a more dense configuration than many cooler, more accessible eastern suburbs.
Another fabricated story from our tax payer funded PUBLIC organisation. Nigger please, being Aboriginal in western NSW bad this shit is served up. I’m calling for reform and half of the ABC news crew to be sacked as this is BS. As this cost savings can provide better opportunity!
Another prediction. Good to look forward to in another 20 years when it doesn't come true, and nothing changes with our climate.🤣🤣
What a load of garbage . When do these climate cultists’s predictions ever come true .
Leave the trees in western Sydney LendleaseGroup
It’s our ABC with its favourite doomsday predictions.....
Yah think
The ABC are becoming very tiresome with their fake news about climate change
Lol... sure it is. Funny how the 'solution' always ends up being removing the average persons freedom and middle class wealth going to the ruling class.
Penrith would be high on the list.
16 years ago you told us Adelaide would be wet/tropical by now - growing mangos, sugar cane and paw paw and high humidity?! Still as dry as Steven Wright!
They may also not be. Within decade the world could be on a new cycle and the temperature may be fine. The word may is the most important word in the headline as it means there needs to be no actual science behind it.
Here we go again, a few hot days in the middle of summer & the leftist climate change alarmists are selling propaganda with a bunch of unfounded and misleading statements. Why don’t you head over to Dubai for a couple of days and see how you manage the heat?
Is that the same prediction as the dams will be empty with no rain?
Then all the equatorial countries are already
It was hotter in the 1930s.
Sensationalism at its best
...& we have the gscsydney WesternSydPark agencies with their all their bling but at the end of the day they’re are pretty useless with the development industry running the NSW govt RobStokesMP GladysB
And yet the City planners continue to build and expand urban heat islands. Fools...
In the meantime, St kilda is still not underwater from rising sea levels, as predicted years ago.
Tiresome 😴😴😴😴😴😴
Should be right they will all have moved to the nth coast by then
Bwahahahaha!
Not if this summer is anything to go by!!
Yawn to 'may' and useless journalists.
If ever you wondered why public mental health is declining panic journalism like this is your answer. Cheap and nasty.
What a crock of shi......
I wonder how the people of places like Alice Springs, Marble Bar, or even Adelaide survive then?
And Perth should have already been the first deserted major city in the world.... ''When I said Perth could become the first ghost metropolis, that was true' Tim Flannery
It may become cooler too.
Yeah mate you guys are super credible 🤡
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1 fake crisis at a time please...
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