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Today Victoria, Australia, broke its temperature record with 48.9°C (120°F), and a moderately uncomfortable day. I see photos of snow in New York and so many other places. The Greenland Ice Sheet is shrinking and President Trump might need a submarine to visit it although he might find them not quite as spacious as Air Force One. A lot of the world is also under water or mud. It doesn't look good overall and don't think your country has escaped the consequences of weather extremes, there is still plenty of time for other disasters.

Maybe we should concentrate on protecting the environment rather than destroying it. The weather extremes are worrying but they could easily become climate problems, reoccurring every year. Stay out of the sunvon extreme heat days, stay indoors on the cold days and get used to them happening far more often.

Dennis Fitzgerald,
Melbourne, Australia