Climate warrior battles the sceptics - National News - National - General - Myall Coast
''Our carbon dioxide levels are 40 per cent higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution and that has led to a rise of 0.8 degree centigrade. That can seem small until you realise it is a global average. For example, Arctic temperatures have risen six degrees."
Rose has just published a book, Madlands: A journey to change the mind of a climate sceptic, that is based on the TV show. She is now on a three-month road trip around Australia to promote it, spreading the environmental gospel to school groups and community forums.
...Anna Rose, was raised in Newcastle. A surfer, she became aware of the heavy traffic of coal freighters - up to 30 a day - on the horizon. Around the same time a family farm had to be sold because of the drought. "I had been learning at school about greenhouse gases," she says, "and began joining the dots."...''More than 40 per cent of our food comes from the Murray-Darling basin and when the Garnaut Review looked at the impact of climate change on this area, they found agriculture could decline by up to 97 per cent by the year 2100. That's an incredibly concerning statistic."
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