Scorching Australia: climate change at work

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Updated January 30, 2009 12:12:11

The economy is not the only thing in meltdown in Australia this week. The country's southern states are struggling through what is likely to be a once-in-a-century heat wave.

Presenter: Linda Mottram
Speaker: Julie Evans, meteorologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Sydney, Penny Wong, Australia's Climate Change minister ,Doctor Janette Lindesay, associate professor of climatology, Australian National University

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