Up to 185,000 drugs in Queensland, “very high risks” of natural disasters will be considered if global heating continues unabated, according to a new report warning that many of these houses will also become unspeakable.
The national climate assessment report of the federal government-which was released on Monday-says natural climate disasters will occur more frequently if global temperatures increase.
Many of these risks are exacerbated in northern Queensland, where societies will be vulnerable to high -density hurricanes, more intense heat waves and other effects.
“Communities in Northern Australia – including the northern region, Northern Zezland and Western Northern Australia – are exposed to multiple climate risk, including heat waves, floods, tropical hurricanes and bush bips,”. Report He said.
“These areas have a high percentage of their residents who live in high -risk areas.”
These areas already have much lower rates of insurance coverage. According to the report, the rate of non-securing homes in the north is approximately 20 %-that is, nearly twice the rate of the rest of the country.
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The director of the Queensland Conservation Council, Dave Kobman, said that he was “crying” that 18 out of 20 risks in Australia were in Queensland.
“If we are a frog in a boiling bowl slowly, this report literally says when you reach the boiling point,” said Kobman.
“Many people who live in Brisvan and Townsville who got a home in the dangerous area of flood know how tense is. They are already asking, do I sell?
“This is not their mistake. It is bad planning and political games in an issue that we should have approached from a scientific point of view.”
The report shoots three scenarios-the temperature increases to 1.5C, 2C and 3C higher than pre-industrial levels. It says that there are probably 175,000 homes in high -risk areas under 1.5C scenario, which was the goal of the Paris Agreement. This number rises to 185,000 if global heating reaches 3C.
The report stated that warming across the Australian continent has already reached 1.5 ° C.
Climate Risk Report warnings about insurance risk risks on the horizon are not new.
When Townsfelle was immersed in 2019, experts warned that some parts of the northern Queensland city “are on the right track to become uncleal.”
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Six years after this event “once in a lifetime”, the outskirts of Townsville were threatened again. Few people in those areas can withstand insurance.
At that time, Dr. Karl Malon, CEO of Climate Evaluation, told Guardian Australia Underinsiance-not insurance-“it has become” very common “in high-risk flood areas.
“Most people in high -risk flood areas will not have a flood cover, because they cannot afford it.”
Copeman said that the report explains that “the failure of the shocking cost climate will be in our lives.”
He said: “We are staring at the barrel of a completely new world, as the life of all Quinzland will be more difficult and our biological diversity will be pushed to the brink of the abyss.”
“This should be an invitation to wake up to federal governments and state governments that we need to cut urgently pollution of the dangerous climate, while financing adaptation and flexibility measures to prepare our societies for the already destructive climate effects.
“The effects are here now. It is imperative that it gets worse. But can we reduce the extent that is getting worse?