Will the last person to leave Australia please turn out the lights?

It does, as Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said, sound like global warming will be a “disaster novel” Down Under.

Even less rain than the 50-year declining averages of today, 95 percent of the country likely to be under official heatwaves most of the year, and so forth.

Seriously. I don’t see how the Australia of today can exist 50 years from now.