…but extreme climate events, including floods, bushfires and heatwaves, are set to get worse, the latest ‘State of the Climate’ report by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology has found. The biennial snapshot of Australia’s climate says national and global temperatures continue to rise. Oz is now 1.5C hotter than when national records began in 1910, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels. That’s seen sea levels rise at an accelerating rate, as Antarctic sea ice is melting faster. Extreme heatwaves and torrential downpours have also increased in recent decades, and despite La Niña bringing record rainfall for southeast Oz, the region’s long-term outlook is looking increasingly drier. The number of snow days around the country has also dropped in recent years – although that’s not currently the case for alpine parts of NSW, Victoria and Tassie, which received an unseasonable dusting of snow yesterday…