Link from http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/06/australia-hot-dry-koala-waltzing-mathilda/
http://findlifevalue.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_3306.html
澳洲南部最近慘遭熱浪襲擊，氣溫甚至高達48℃，別說是人們受不了了，就連澳洲當地的國寶『無尾熊』都熱昏了頭，不但有也生得無尾熊被活生生得熱死，剩下的無尾熊更發展出一套求生本能向人們求助。
最近有許多澳洲民眾發現，平日害羞的無尾熊竟然跑到民宅或是像自行車騎士要水喝，看到屋主端出了水盆，無尾熊主動的立刻跳進水盆中泡水消暑，絕地求生的模樣還真是可愛，但令人不勝唏噓。
令人擔心的是，有些無尾熊竟然跑到了游泳池旁喝水，只見牠張開後腳，深怕五短身材一不小心就會掉進泳池中。
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong….
[Click photo for full pic.]
A reader sends a note with a wonderful series of pictures attached:
Since you’ve been focusing on Australia a lot lately, these images might make some good symbols of what’s going on there. A koala invaded a home to get some water (very rare for koalas to anywhere near people), during this most recent heat wave.
The reader was himself forwarding an email about Australia’s worst heatwave on record, which read:
It has been so hot in SA for over a week … 40+ degrees Celsius everyday, and very dry.
A guy at work lives at Maude. His wife sent him these photos of a little Koala which just walked into the back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. She filled up a bucket and this is what happened!
Okay, this isn’t a jumpbuck. Then again, it’s not a billabong either, since those are all running dry (see “Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in”). And if we don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions sharply and soon, they’ll all be irreversibly dry for 1000 years.”
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.”
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* Dry me a River: Climate change and drought
* Australia today = U.S. southwest by 2050
* Australia faces the “permanent dry” — as do we
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