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 [...]
Fri May 13, 2011
ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Monday 16 May at 12.30pm AEST online As the year kicked off with severe flooding and storms in Queensland and Victoria and severe bushfires in WA, a question began to appear – just how vulnerable are we to such extreme events when they occur in quick succession? How many cyclones or [...]
Fri Jan 21, 2011
The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that 2010 ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998. In 2010, global average temperature was 0.53°C (0.95°F) above the 1961-90 mean. These statistics are based on data sets maintained by the UK Meteorological Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU), the U.S. National Climatic Data Center [...]
Mon Jun 28, 2010
ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Tue 29 June at 12.40pm AEST online As efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are delayed, many experts suggest that disastrous climate change is already on its way. So should we just learn to cope? Even if the world were to stop all greenhouse gas emissions today, a certain amount of [...]
Thu Jan 21, 2010
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is reexamining a report it issued that suggests Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035.
Mon Aug 10, 2009
The coalition and Nick Xenophon have proposed an alternative to the government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS). Below experts respond to the announcement and report prepared for the coalition by Frontier Economics.
Wed Aug 5, 2009
A paper published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research (J. D. McLean, C. R. de Freitas & R. M. Carter) suggests that the Southern Oscillation is a stronger driver of global temperature changes over the past 50 years than carbon dioxide. Experts comment below (including a comment from one of the co-authors. Any further [...]
Thu Jun 18, 2009
A new report compiling research presented at a science congress in Copenhagen in March says recent observations are approaching the upper limit predictions of the 2007 United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.