Climate change


RAPID REACTION: Agreement at UN COP meeting in Durban - expert responds

Mon Dec 12, 2011

The UN COP meeting in Durban reached an agreement yesterday regarding tackling the issue of climate change. All the documents relating to the agreements are here. We asked experts to comment on the agreement and any implications.

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RAPID REACTION: Ian Plimer launches new book on climate change – experts respond

Fri Dec 9, 2011

John Howard will be launching Ian Plimer’s new ‘anti-Warmist manual for the younger reader’, How to Get Expelled from School, on the evening of Monday 12 December. Scientific experts have read the book and provided their comments below.

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NEWS BRIEFING: The Southern Ocean – Australia’s life jacket

Tue Nov 29, 2011

ONLINE BRIEFING: 10am AEDT Mon 28 November
EMBARGO LIFTED at 00.01am AEDT Tue 29 November
A new report details the importance of the Southern Ocean for Australia. Scientists are realising just how much protection the ocean offers us by acting as a sink that absorbs huge amounts of heat and carbon dioxide, slowing down the rate of [...]

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NEWS BRIEFING: New data - climate of change for our nearest neighbours

Thu Nov 24, 2011

ONLINE BRIEFING: 10.30am AEDT on Friday 25 November
Embargo  lifted at 10.30am AEDT on Friday 25 November
A new report from CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology on climate change in the Pacific paints a picture of rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and growing ocean acidity for our nearest neighbours. The peer-reviewed report, Climate Change in the [...]

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RAPID REACTION: New release of climate emails which appear to be from University of East Anglia – UK experts respond

Wed Nov 23, 2011

A new batch of more than 5,000 emails purportedly from the University of East Anglia’s (UK) Climatic Research Unit has been released on the internet. A previous release of emails was dubbed “ClimateGate” in 2009; this led to a number of inquiries which dismissed accusations of fraud. Once again the emails have been released shortly [...]

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RAPID REACTION: New IPCC report on managing the risks of extreme weather events - expert response

Sat Nov 19, 2011

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has presented findings from its special report Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation at a media briefing on Friday 18 November at 9.30pm AEDT
The approved version of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report has been released and is [...]

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RAPID REACTION: Clean Energy Bill passes through the Senate – experts respond

Tue Nov 8, 2011

The Clean Energy Bill has passed the Senate with 36 votes to 32. It will become law from 1 July, 2012.

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RAPID REACTION: New data on climate change from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project – experts respond

Fri Oct 21, 2011

In research that has been released to the media, though not yet peer-reviewed, a group of independent researchers has concluded that global warming is real. The research analyses temperature data from 15 sources and was intended to directly address scientific concerns raised by skeptics, including the urban heat island effect (UHI), temperature station quality and [...]

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