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CANBERRA Josh Jackson Packers Jersey , Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Australian Bureau of Meteorology confirmed in its annual report released on Tuesday that Australia has experienced its third-warmest calendar year in 2014 since national records began in 1910.

The bureau's Assistant Director for Climate Information Services Neil Plummer said 2014 was characterized by frequent heatwaves and warm spells, and a notable reduction in cold weather.

"Much of Australia experienced temperatures very much above average in 2014, with mean temperatures 0.91 degree Celsius above the long-term average," Plummer said in a media release of the bureau.

"This follows the warmest year on record in 2013, which was 1. 20 degree Celsius warmer than average."

He said that particularly warm conditions occurred in spring 2014, which was Australia's warmest spring on record.

"El Nino-like effects were felt in drier and warmer conditions in much of eastern Australia during 2014."

In 2014, prolonged rainfall deficiencies continued for inland and southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales Josh Allen Bills Jersey , although in the country as a whole, the rainfall was near average for the year, with 478 mm.

Six significant heatwaves and warm spells occurred, including one of southeast Australia's most prolonged heatwaves in mid- January.

A number of major bushfires occurred during January and February, with particularly destructive fires in Victoria and South Australia.

Four tropical cyclones made landfall during 2014, with tropical cyclone Ita the most intense; crossing the coast near Cooktown as a category 4 system, bringing rainfall totals in excess of 300 mm.

A stormy spring Joseph Noteboom Chargers Jersey , with severe thunderstorms striking Brisbane in late November, causing flash flooding, very large hailstones and destructive winds.

An East Coast Low off the central and southern New South Wales coast in August caused storm damage and brought more than 100 mm of rain to some parts of the coast.

Sea surface temperatures around Australia were unusually warm, about 0.49 degree Celsius above average for the year to November.

Nationally, Australian temperatures have warmed approximately one degree since 1950, and the continued warmth in 2014 adds to this long-term warming trend.

Globally, preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization has 2014 on track to be one of the hottest Jessie Bates Bengals Jersey , if not the hottest, on record.

According to the report, 2013 was the hottest year on record, and 2005 the second hottest. In the last 35 years, 29 years have been hotter than average, while only six years have been below average.

"It is worrying that these sort of records are now being broken so regularly. The impact of climate change on these trends is very clear. Climate change is making Australia hotter and more prone to bushfires," said climate expert and Australian National University researcher Professor Will Steffen.

"Another in Australia's string of Angry Summers is underway. Severe bushfires are raging in South Australia and Victoria following the hottest Spring on record and the hottest November on record James Washington Steelers Jersey ," said the professor, who is also the Councilor of Climate Council, an independent non-profit organization formed to provide Australians with clear, easy to understand facts on climate change.

"An obvious implication of hotter temperatures is worsening bushfire conditions. Over the past four decades, climate change has increased the occurrence of high fire danger weather in the southeast - exactly the type of conditions that have led to the early January fires in South Australia and Victoria," the professor said.

The latest bushfires in South Australia have left at least 26 homes and 41 outbuildings destroyed or badly damaged, and the numbers were expected to rise as more damage assessments were made.

LAUSANNE James Daniels Bears Jersey , Switzerland, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The International Olympic Committee announced here on Friday that a net increase of 15 events will be made to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

The desicion was made during a meeting of the IOC Executive Board. Some of events are from the mixed events, incuding mixed doubles of table tennis, 4x400m mixed relay (athletics), men's and women's basketbal 3x3, 4x100m medely mixed relay, judo's mixed team event Jaire Alexander Packers Jersey , mixed team archery event and mixed trianthlon team relay.

The IOC said it will be "the highest representation of female athletes in Olympic history". In Tokyo, the number of mixed events will double from nine in Rio 2016 to 18. All new events will make use of existing venues.

But the overall number of participating athletes will be reduced by 285 from Rio 2016, the IOC said in a statement.

Commenting on the decision, IOC President Thomas Bach said "The fascinating new events that we approved today, together with the five new sports that were added to the Tokyo 2020 program last year, represent a step-change in the Olympic program. I am delighted that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will be more youthful, more urban and will include more women."

The decision is a significant step towards achieving the 50 percent gender balance at the Olympic Games in both athletes and events Isaiah Wynn Patriots Jersey , as clearly stated by Olympic Agenda 2020.

Four new International Federations (IFs) will move to gender-balanced in events for the first time (canoe, rowing, shooting and weightlifting). In terms of athletes, six IFs will move to gender balance for the first time (canoe, judo, rowing, sailing Isaiah Oliver Falcons Jersey , shooting and weightlifting). At discipline level, gender balance is achieved in BMX racing, mountain bike and freestyle wrestling.

The program also includes youth-focused and urban-based additions such as basketball 3x3 and BMX freestyle, on top of sport climbing and skateboarding. Basketball 3x3 was a successful innovation at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010 and Nanjing 2014. Sport climbing and skateboarding were proposed .