2015 was the world’s hottest year on record. The US State of the Climate report has rounded up the litany of temperature and other records that were broken all over the globe.
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Satellite rainfall data can be used to predict harsh climate events – and to identify food-insecure populations before disaster strikes.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
From floods to drought, fire to famine, the 2015-16 El Nino has had a global impact.
From floods to drought, fire to famine, the 2015-16 El Nino has had a global impact.
Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.
A new millennium-long record reveals that Australia has suffered longer droughts and wet periods than those recorded in the past century’s weather observations.
After some unusually wet years, our landscape and ecosystems have once again returned to poorer conditions that were last experienced during the Millennium Drought.
Australia’s snow season is notoriously fickle - so what determines whether we’ll get a good fall?
This summer has seen Tasmania suffer through drought, bushfires, floods and the worst marine heatwave on record. Is this what life under a climate-changed future will be like?
Bleaching has hit a huge swathe of the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals in the reef’s remote northern reaches now expected to die as a result of warm waters linked to this summer’s El Niño.
The summer of 2015-2016 was the hottest on record for Australia’s oceans.
Authorities have moved the Great Barrier Reef onto its highest alert level in response to widespread coral bleaching. Months of monitoring will now be needed to assess the ongoing damage.
Right on cue, coral bleaching has struck the Great Barrier Reef, as the world’s third mass bleaching event continues.
February 2016 was the hottest month by the biggest margin ever. Does that mean global warming has gone into hyperdrive?
Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
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.
Marine scientists have been accused of being biased towards ‘doom and gloom’. But it’s not bias if the outlook for coral reefs really is gloomy.
Australia is the land of drought of flooding rains, driven by events such as El Nino. But despite this variability, some parts of Australia are clearly drying out.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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