Global warming brings extreme weather but did it cause the NSW floods?

The people most affected by natural disasters in Australia are represented by the people who are most likely to deny that human activity has changed our climate.

Suspicions were first reported last year that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter was managing to cut its emissions five years earlier than planned.

The odds are good for a wet winter, prolonging the sodden autumn on the east coast, but bringing relief for the drought-stricken inland.

National weather forecast for Wednesday May 21.

After the NSW government adopted the controversial policy of shooting wild horses from the air, the alpine national park is beginning to recover.

The SES conducted more than 40 flood rescues as flash flooding and intense winds battered the Hunter and Mid North Coast.

Methods such as long lining and bottom trawling are responsible for horrifying levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks.

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

National weather forecast for Thursday December 5.

The controversial plan was billed as a lifeline for the Latrobe Valley’s ageing brown coal industry.

National weather forecast for Friday December 6.

National weather forecast for Saturday December 7.

It appears the prime minister has put Labor’s political survival ahead of the survival of Australia’s endangered species

Sydney’s “low-intensity heatwave” is set to end on Sunday, with warnings of severe thunderstorms in the city cancelled.

National weather forecast for Sunday December 8.

National weather forecast for Monday December 9.

Gas will be part of our energy mix but, despite industry claims, new gas production and infrastructure is not needed in the transition to renewable energy.

Farmed Tasmanian salmon is on the naughty list this year, but plenty of delicious options will keep you in the good graces of the environment.

National weather forecast for Wednesday 11 December.