Unprecedented Australian dust storm linked to global warming
September 25th, 2009 by Jim JustThis NASA photo shows a wall of dust stretching from northern Queensland to the southern tip of eastern Australia.
Gale-force winds whipped up the dust from the inland and spread it across eastern Australia. Winds of more than 100 km per hour also fanned bushfires.
The dust storm is the worst in 70 years. In the photo, you can see the dust rising in plumes from point sources and concentrating in a wall along the front of the storm. Much of the dust is coming from fields that have not been planted because of Australia’s multi-year drought.
In Australia, the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived.