ABC – Transcript (program 4 March 2013)

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: It’s one of the most hotly disputed questions in the debate over climate change. Can extreme weather events like bushfires and floods be blamed on global warming?

Scientists have always been cautious about linking any one event to climate change, but now Australia’s Climate Commission has joined the dots between a series of a weather-related disasters and global warming in what it calls the nation’s “angry summer”.

This year was the hottest summer ever recorded in Australia with almost three quarters of the country experiencing extreme temperatures and many places reporting record maximums.

Read the transcript or watch the program excerpt on the ABC here.

Download the Angry Summer Report here at the Climate Commission website.