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Researchers at James Cook University in Queensland say that Earth’s tropical zone has expanded by as much as 500 kilometres in the past 25 years.
The discovery provides, at long last, an answer to a question that has vexed scientists for years: where else but Queensland?
According the the findings, answers now include New South Wales and South Australia.
The expansion of the tropical zone has prompted Tourism Queensland to promote hastily-organised tropical getaways to such exotic resort destinations as Newcastle, Scone and Chatswood.
The JCU team says that animal species will be forced to move south in order to stay within their preferred weather conditions, a result that will place ever more strain on the choked Pacific Highway.
Tropical expansion is believed to be pushing the dry subtropical zone southward, forcing much of Australia’s rainfall to be dumped over the Southern Ocean. Scientists have warned that if action to address climate change is not taken soon, increased rain and rising sea levels could leave the ocean completely covered in water.
Changing weather conditions could force terrible Australian films southward.
