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Australia’s emergency services ordered thousands of people in Sydney to evacuate on Monday as overflowing rivers swamped swathes of land and the city’s largest dam spilled torrents of water. On the third day of torrential rains on the east coast, rescuers said they had saved about 20 people in the past 12 hours, many trapped in cars on flood-swept roads in New South Wales. Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change. Higher tempera…