Australia's record spring heat one-in-500,000 without climate change: analysis

This year's spring temperatures would be virtually impossible' without human greenhouse emissions, according to new report

Australia's hottest spring on record, which saw temperatures more than 2C above average, would have been virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, new analysis has found.

A spring as hot as the one Australians just experienced would come along only once every half a million years without the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, climate scientist Dr David Karoly told the Guardian.