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The Briefing: Bushfire Royal Commission emphatically warns of global warming, stops short of recommending emissions reduction

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The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report has made extensive references to the role of global warming in exacerbating future disasters, while framing…

Australia’s inland rivers are the pulse of the outback. By 2070, they’ll be unrecognisable

By Zacchary Larkin

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Future climate change is likely to reduce stream flow and water availability in drylands around the world. Our new research has shown, for the first…

Anatomy of a heatwave: how Antarctica recorded a 20.75°C day last month

By Dana M Bergstrom

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Antarctica represents the simple, extreme end of conditions for life. It can be seen as a ‘canary in the mine’, demonstrating patterns of change we…

The last ice age tells us why we need to care about a 2℃ change in temperature

By Alan N Williams

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While 2℃ might seem negligible, the peak of the last ice age was characterised by a 2-4 ℃ drop in global temperatures. This shows just…

Ex-Home Affairs staffer says ‘compassionate politics’ needed to deal with climate change

By Shannon Jenkins

Energy & Environment

A former Department of Home Affairs staffer has criticised the federal government for failing to adopt a 2018 plan on preparing for natural disasters, including…

Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying

By Fiona Hibbert

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Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers a glimpse of…

We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians

By David Holmes & Stephanie Hall

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One of the great paradoxes of climate change communication in Australia is that politicians command the most attention on the issue, yet are among the…

Can Paris achieve what Kyoto could not for carbon reduction?

By Jon Stanford

Features

Between the developing world paradox, and the intractable political failure in Australia, the problem of climate change has limited solutions. Former government economist on climate…

Canberra's climate change brain drain becoming critical

By David Donaldson

News

Climate change expertise is being lost from the public sector as the government fails to fill board vacancies and departments stop commissioning climate policy modelling…

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