November 2009 Welcome to Extreme Weather Heroes – a Gen Y led recruitment drive to inspire 20,000 young emergency volunteers of the future. Our movement supports communities through the floods, bushfires, heat waves and storms of a changing climate. This e-news covers CSIRO’s extreme weather predictions followed by a heads up from The Weather Channel about what the summer of 2010 has in store. We continue to welcome new Heroes from across the nation to the team - this months addition is Dean Adams from St John Ambulance Victoria. If you like what we’re up to and fancy a 5-star green rated sexy new car, buy a raffle ticket to support your Heroes. CSIRO briefs our Heroes CSIRO’s Penny Whetton, Climate Impacts and Risk Research Program Leader, is developing models which predict Australian severe weather trends. Follow her personal briefing to our Heroes on YouTube. Read more  The Weather Channel goes extreme The Weather Channel's Meteorologist Tom Saunders gave our Extreme Weather Heroes an exclusive insight into extreme weather predictions for summer... Check it out on YouTube, and don’t be surprised if you see our Heroes live on The Weather Channel during severe events in 2010. Read more  Dean's climate is changing too Dean Adams is a volunteer for St John Ambulance in Victoria and this summer, he'll be putting his suave personality and super skills towards a good cause - getting his mates to realise that they can do something about our changing climate... Read more  Ayla greets Run for a Safe Climate team 25 runners from across the emergency services organisations are running 6000 km in 27 days to raise awareness of what Australia has at stake in the face of a changing climate - water supplies, ecosystems, agricultural and coastal communities. Find our what happened when they hit Brisbane... Read more  Support your Heroes Green Cross Australia is raffling a sexy 5 star rated Suzuki Alto with fuel consumption of 4.8 litres per 100km, and the best air pollution rating in Australia. Be in the draw. Call 1300 133 756 to buy a raffle ticket and help us to grow the Extreme Weather Heroes program! Read more  Extreme Weather Heroes is an initiative of Green Cross Australia. Support this cool new NGO! Phone 07 3003 0644         Email info@greencrossaustralia.org Web www.greencrossaustralia.org Western Australia joins The Team Zoe Payne St John Ambulance, Western Australia State Cadet Champion tells it how it is... First aid comes in handy Ben Tsang Red Cross Sydney Preparing for a huge summer of the unexpected... If you have received this email in error or wish to unsubscribe click here