Act on Climate | A team of citizens who are concerned about climate change and want to take action on it at a grassroots level.

What we’re missing in climate conversations

#ClimateImpactsHeat - Wye River

#ClimateImpactsHeat - Wodonga

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Phillip Island

#ClimateImpactsHeat - Northern Victoria

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Bass Strait

#ClimateImpactsHealth - Rutherglen

#ClimateImpactsHeat - Baranduda

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Baranduda

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Wangaratta

#ClimateImpactsWildlife #ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Wodonga

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Wodonga

#ClimateImpactsWater - Geelong

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Grampians

#ClimateImpactsWater - Port Fairy 2

#ClimateImpactsWater - Port Fairy

References

#ClimateImpactsWater - Queenscliff

#ClimateImpactsWater - Point Lonsdale 2

#ClimateImpactsWater - Point Lonsdale

#ClimateImpactsWater - Inverloch

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Maffra

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Staghorn Flat

#ClimateImpactsSnow - Alpine Region

#ClimateImpactWater - Mallacoota

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Melbourne

#ClimateImpactsHeat #ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Tonimbuk

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Mildura

#ClimateImpactsWater - Mildura

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Elwood

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Lakes Entrance

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Croajingalong National Park

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Queenscliff

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Tamboon

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Loch Sport

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Stanley

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Bethanga

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Stanley 2

#ClimateImpactsWeather - Colac

#ClimateImpactsWater - Eastern Victoria

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Melbourne 2

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Porepunkah

#ClimateImpactsHealth - Melbourne

#ClimateImpactsWater - Port Phillip Bay

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Australian Alps

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Goulburn Valley

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Lakes Entrance

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Wimmera

#ClimateImpactsHeat - Licola

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Mt Buller

#ClimateImpactsWildlife - Melbourne

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Milawa

#ClimateImpactsAgriculture - Staghorn Flat 2

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Key Findings:

Agriculture

Crop fails are widespread and yields are down.
There’s been a reduction in produce quality.
Some growers are relocating.
Animal agriculture has been impacted by heat stress.

Wildlife

Animals are being threatened by extinction.
Animals are migrating.
Animals are suffering due to heatwaves and bushfires.

Coastal Erosion

Communities from Inverloch to Port Fairy are experiencing infrastructure damage.

Snow Cover

Victoria snow cover has decreased significantly since the 1950s.

Bushfires

Total fire bans across Victoria have gone up by 67% in the last two decades compared to the two before that.
Bushfire are destroying communities, and their frequency is making in hard for forests to grow back.
Hospitals in Melbourne have seen cardiac related admissions increase on smoke affected days, despite fires being hundreds of kilometres away.
Fires have destroyed agricultural family business’ and threatened species extinction.

Extreme Weather Events

Flooding has increased in some parts of Victoria due to more intense downpours.

Feedback loops that speed up the climate crisis have taken effect.

90% of the Port Phillip Bay kelp forests have been wiped out; kelp forests absorb CO2 and slow coastal erosion.
Bushfires have increased; destroying trees needed to absorb CO2 and native wildlife that balance the ecosystem.
Snow cover has reduced; snow is needed to help stabilise earth’s temperature and to have sufficient water flow.

The #ClimateImpactVic map highlights the frontlines of climate change in Victoria.

It gives a voice to those that are already feeling effects of climate breakdown.

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