The Courier Mail: Youth sign up for an extreme weather challenge
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A new generation of emergency volunteers is being trained to deal with extreme weather conditions.  

Green Cross Australia has launched its Extreme Weather Heroes campaign to inspire 20 000 people under 30 to join emergency response volunteer groups.  

Chief Executive Mara Bun said the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had predicted Australia would experience more frequent and more intense floods and fires as a result of climate change.  

"Of course we have had floods, fires and storms before humans even walked the land, but there are a lots more of us than there used to be and the extra CO2 is playing havoc with the weather,"  Ms Bun said...  

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