Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode one, we discuss how scientists know the climate is changing.
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Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council.
A supercomputer spent six months projecting localised rainfall extremes decades into the future.
The Pacific Ocean climate pattern is the opposite of El Niño.
Evidence in Earth’s natural archives, from tree rings to seafloor sediments, points to one trend. Some climate models suggest another.
We’re rarely aware of a company’s full environmental footprint.
Atmospheric rivers can melt fragile new sea ice. When these storms arrive in waves, the sea ice doesn’t have a chance to recover.
Mountaineer and scientist Will Steffen said climbing was similar to science: “That’s the buzz you get in science when you solve a big problem and suddenly see how it all fits together”
A new image has been taken of the whole Earth 50 years after the first - revealing noticeable changes to its surface.
A look back at hurricane history suggests we may be significantly underestimating future risks.
High intensity rain has actually increased, which is topping up underground water stores.
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
The findings of a new study suggest mistrust in climate science and uncritical faith in “alternative science” lead people to reject consensus science and generate alternative explanations.
The place where oceans turn into ice holds the key to understanding some of the complex interactions of Earth’s climate. Thankfully, we’re making progress.
A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
The tropics are projected to face almost daily dangerous heat by 2100. And “extremely dangerous” heat that’s almost unheard of today will occur more often in several regions.
Flood risks are rising as the climate warms. The risks are complex, as a levee or new roadway in one place can worsen flooding somewhere else.
Here are two possible forms of regional geoengineering.
But new research offers some hope if we are able to keep climate change under control.
Top contributors
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Research Assistant Professor, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason 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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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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honorary Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Professor in Atmospheric Science, Monash University
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Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), UNSW Sydney
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
