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The high temperatures and wildfires of 2019 were thought to have heralded a freak summer for the Arctic. Then 2020 brought worse.
A new study lays bare the average summer heat people in the UK can expect by century’s end.
Models have predicted for some time that with every degree of global warming, the Arctic will see double or more.
Older records can tell us a lot about Australia’s pre-industrial climate, before the large-scale burning of fossil fuels tainted global temperature records.
‘Wet-bulb’ temperature records show that deadly thresholds for heat and humidity are arriving faster than anticipated.
Climate science is now firmly part of the zeitgeist.
With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, our leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.
From Greece, to the UK, to Japan and even Sweden, a slew of places in the Northern Hemisphere are suffering extreme heat. And the chances of extreme heat records tumbling are growing all the time.
An annual assessment of the health of Australia’s environment shows mostly stable conditions in 2017, but ecosystems on land and at sea suffered ever higher temperatures.
This year is poised to go down as the hottest non-El Niño year ever recorded, with record low polar ice and extreme weather that left many regions battling bushfires and hurricanes.
In an unchanging climate, we would expect record-breaking temperatures to get rarer as the observation record grows longer. But in the real world the opposite is true - because we are driving up temperatures.
October 2015 was the hottest on record for that month, and Tasmania had its driest ever spring.
The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, and Australia’s record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
New projections suggest the world could warm 3-7 degrees over coming centuries.
Atmospheric, marine, environmental, biological and medical scientists join in calling for more focus on the damage being wrought by climate change.
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.
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.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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honorary Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National 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 Climate Science, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Physics of the Oceans, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
