In early February of this year, when the Perth heat really got going, my partner was 28 weeks pregnant.
Speaking as someone who grew up in WA, the recent heatwave was brutal and unprecedented. The cooling sea breeze stayed out to sea and some nights it was over 30 degrees Celsius at midnight.At an after-work drinks event I attended, a man fainted and collapsed. We gave him water and walked him to his car, through the city. The baking hot streets were utterly deserted.
"Everything is being normalised, as though it's just another heatwave ... What we see now is a harbinger of what's to come. There were more than twice as many stories about how the heat could affect the result of a cricket match in Perth in mid-February than about how climate change was driving the heatwaves.By comparison, about half of stories about the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires mentioned climate change, Tahnee Burgess, a researcher at Monash University's Climate Change Communication Research Hub, said.
"February really was a month of extreme weather, so you'd think it would be a good month to be talking about climate change."Heatwaves are one of the most direct and well-observed consequences of a changing climate. Climate scientists in Australia and overseas have been "We see a particularly strong warming trend in some parts of WA, including around Perth," Dr Bradshaw said.
But even this relatively temperate climate may be too much for those who are most vulnerable to heat, including the elderly, children, babies, pregnant women, and people with chronic illnesses.The Western Australian Council of Social Service has begun mapping temperature variation across the city and plans to build public cool-space sanctuaries for residents.
It can takes months of combing through coronial records to determine how many people may have died from a specific heatwave.
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