Climate change played a role in Australia’s hottest October and Tasmania’s big dry in 2015
October 2015 was the hottest on record for that month, and Tasmania had its driest ever spring.
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World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
2015’s record-breaking temperatures will be normal by 2030 - it’s time to adapt
Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, and Australia's record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
Current emissions could already warm world to dangerous levels: study
New projections suggest the world could warm 3-7 degrees over coming centuries.
An open letter to the Prime Minister on the climate crisis, from 154 scientists
Atmospheric, marine, environmental, biological and medical scientists join in calling for more focus on the damage being wrought by climate change.
State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
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.
How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash
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.
Australia simmers through hottest autumn on record
Autumn 2016 was Australia's hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
2016 is likely to be the world’s hottest year: here’s why
Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.
This summer’s sea temperatures were the hottest on record for Australia: here’s why
The summer of 2015-2016 was the hottest on record for Australia's oceans.
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call
February 2016 was the hottest month by the biggest margin ever. Does that mean global warming has gone into hyperdrive?
We traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s
Record-breaking years have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change.
Sydney, so hot right now: what’s behind the city’s record run of warm weather?
Sydney is in the process of smashing the record for the longest run of days above 26℃. Weather, El Nino and climate change are all playing their part.
The weather bureau might be underestimating Australian warming: here’s why
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.
It’s official: 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded
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 to be hottest year ever: World Meteorological Organization
2015 will likely be the hottest year on record, according to a preliminary analysis released by the World Meteorological Organization.
It’s been Australia’s hottest ever October, and that’s no coincidence
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.
England’s set to swelter through a rash of record hot years
An analysis of the world's longest-running temperature record suggests that England is many times more likely to experience more record-breaking hot years like 2014 than it was a century ago.
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Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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