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Australia’s wheat harvest has stalled over the past 26 years, and worsening weather is to blame.
2016 was Australia’s fourth warmest year on record, capping off the hottest decade.
Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, and Australia’s record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
The female body should maintain warmth better than the male, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Since April 2015, each month has been the hottest on record and it’s the longest hot streak on record.
Do you ever feel that the weather is worse on the weekend? Well you might be right!
Here’s the science.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
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.
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?
Rising temperatures affect people living in the developing world differently to those living in Europe and North America.
El Niño dominated global climate in 2015, but in Australia the story was more complicated. 2015 was Australia’s fifth warmest year on record, and saw the return of very dry conditions to parts of Australia.
2014 saw heatwaves of all kinds and other wild weather. Research can now explain that climate change made these events much more likely.
How do we know that a measure of something in one location can be replicated precisely in another. We already have a universal measure of mass and time, but what about temperture?
El Niño has arrived, it’s getting stronger, and it’s not about to go away soon. And already there are rumblings that this could be a big one.
High temperatures have been found to have a negative effect on learning, so how are schools in northern Australia coping?
2C is the officially agreed safe limit for global warming, but a recent expert finds 2C is still in the danger zone.
Heat cost Australia nearly A$7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
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ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Climate Scientist and Researcher, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct), Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre and previously co-director of the DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University
