Australasia’s warming in recent decades is unprecedented in the past millennium. But a mistake in the paper reporting this finding took four years to fix, and was viciously attacked by bloggers.
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Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
The summer of 2015-2016 was the hottest on record for Australia’s oceans.
February 2016 was the hottest month by the biggest margin ever. Does that mean global warming has gone into hyperdrive?
Record-breaking years have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change.
Sydney is in the process of smashing the record for the longest run of days above 26°C. Weather, El Nino and climate change are all playing their part.
Former PM’s business advisor Maurice Newman recently claimed that satellite temperature data tell a different story to data collected on the ground. He’s right - but that’s how it’s meant to be.
2015 was the world’s hottest year ever by a long shot. But what drove the record temperatures, and what role did climate change play?
2015 will likely be the hottest year on record, according to a preliminary analysis released by the World Meteorological Organization.
The federal government’s new “Technical Advisory Forum” on weather data, announced by parliamentary environment secretary Bob Baldwin last week, will “review and provide advice on Australia’s official…
An article in The Australian today has once again raised the question of why scientists, in trying to estimate how the global and regional surface temperatures of Earth may have changed over the past century…
2014 has been confirmed as Australia’s third-hottest year, capping off a record-breaking decade, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement, released today. Seven of Australia’s…
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Professor of Physics of the Oceans, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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