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CSIRO’s climate science has contributed a number of important, and unexpected, findings.
CSIRO is set to cut dozens of jobs from its climate research units, as part of a wider series of job losses to be formally announced today.
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.
Changes in ocean temperatures are driving unusual weather patterns across Europe.
After almost five years, Ian Chubb today ends his role Australia’s Chief Scientist. He’s seen some challenging times with changing leadership and ministers but he believes Australia is in a better place.
Scientists need to be comfortable dealing with subjective views, rather than empirical data, and people’s feelings to make progress in addressing climate change.
Things can change disturbingly quickly – just ask the people who once farmed the Sahara.
Since scientists are the real sceptics, they still argue a lot among themselves.
The Millennium Drought was bad, but the most detailed record of droughts since 1500 reveals there were far more severe super-droughts in the past.
The scientific case rests on six key observations.
2015 will likely be the hottest year on record, according to a preliminary analysis released by the World Meteorological Organization.
There’s no agreed definition, no agreed starting point – and no data to back it up.
Research shows how the the tobacco and fossil fuel industries used different tactics to undermine scientific consensus.
Until now, the legal system has tolerated corporate deceptions of the public but New York state’s investigation into Exxon on climate could start to rewrite the rules.
2014 saw heatwaves of all kinds and other wild weather. Research can now explain that climate change made these events much more likely.
This has been Australia’s hottest October on record. And the record-breaking temperatures are at least six times more likely thanks to human-induced global warming.
New research shows that we’ll have to remove carbon from the atmosphere for any chance of keeping warming below 2C.
These tiny organisms play a big role in regulating the Earth’s climate.
Any drop in solar activity will be dwarfed by the impact of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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