What is the climate crisis doing to Australia’s weather extremes? A Coalition frontbencher gets it ‘patently wrong’ | Temperature Check

Rising risk of heatwaves and bushfires means politicians will be put to the test about the effect of the climate crisis. Already, some have roundly failed

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As Australia stares down the barrel of a hot summer and a rising risk of heatwaves and bushfires, politicians are going to have to get to grips with answering the obvious question. What is climate change doing to our weather extremes?

The Coalition's shadow social services minister, Michael Sukkar, was given an early test last week and he roundly failed.