Steffen said the trends of a hotter and drier climate meant bushfire season in southern WA was stretching into spring and autumn, narrowing the window for fire management authorities to safely conduct prescribed burns.
"Especially in the south-west, climate-related factors are going to be important factors in deciding where you are going to live," Steffen said.
"The government were informed about this case a few months ago", Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday.
Climate Council member Will Steffen is one of the authors of the report and said it was a fluke that the report was launched on an unusually hot, bushfire-plagued day.
Steffen said the climate was changing so rapidly that it could make some people reconsider whether to live in parts of south-western WA that have been most plagued by bushfires, such as the Perth Hills or the Karri forests south of Margaret River.
The number of days hot enough to be considered "unsafe" for outdoor workers is expected to increase 20 fold by 2070, which Steffen said could affect productivity and profits in the Pilbara, the centre of WA's mining industry.
According to her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, she is "entirely focused" on securing a "peaceful resolution of the crisis".
When you are very rich, what's the odd extra point on your mortgage rate?* "Inattention and Inertia in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market", by Steffen Andersen, John Y. Campbell, Kasper Meisner Nielsen and Tarun Ramadorai.
And that has permitted palaeontologists to excavate several thousand fossils, representing 68 animal species, from the area.These researchers, led by Ben Thuy of the Natural History Museum of Luxembourg and Steffen Kiel of Göttingen University in Germany, report their findings this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
But they often manage to put a dent in bosses' pay packets.That, at least, is the conclusion of a recent study by John DiNardo of the University of California, Kevin Hallock of the University of Illinois and Jörn-Steffen Pischke of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday that Germany respected the decision of the Greek voters, but that its perspective on Greece remained the same as before the elections.
