Weather events becoming more intense due to climate change: Climate Commission CLIMATE change is already increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather in Australia, a new report says. The Climate Commission report also warns there's a high risk that heatwaves, fires, cyclones, heavy rainfall and drought will become even more intense and frequent in the coming decades. The Critical Decade: Extreme Weather, released today, says the global climate system is warmer and moister than 50 years ago, with the extra heat making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said the new report should serve as a warning to those who think action on cutting greenhouse gases can wait. He said climate change was no longer a problem for future generations to solve, as the impacts were already being felt. The scientific advice was that this was the critical decade to act, and effective policies now would determine the severity of climate change experience for years to come. "Increasing greenhouse gas emissions is like loading the dice for more extreme weather events in the future," he said in a statement. Mr Combet said it was time for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to "pull his head out of the sand" and listen to the advice of the experts. Mr Abbott predicted Professor Flannery would lose his job if the Coalition won power at the next election. He said climate change and carbon tax bureaucracies set up by Labor would also go under a Coalition government when it abolishes the carbon tax. Asked on Macquarie Radio if Professor Flannery would be "consigned to the wastepaper basket of bureaucracy," Mr Abbott said he thought there were four climate and carbon tax bureaucracies in place. "When the carbon tax goes, all of those bureaucracies will go and I suspect we might find that the particular position you refer to goes with them," he said. "It does sound like an unnecessary position given that the gentleman in question gives us the benefit of his views without needing taxpayer funding," Mr Abbott said.