Has science done enough to tell people what climate change actually is? UNSW's Dr Ben Newell on the psychology of global warming.
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Communicating climate science - it's about how we make decisions 20 September 2010
The idea that greenhouse gas emissions are warming Earth's atmosphere is one of the most certain concepts in natural science yet as the level of scientific certainty has grown, so has the level of public scepticism about it, note Dr Ben Newell and Professor Andy Pitman.
Triple whammy: ocean warming, La Niña, and cyclone produced Queensland floods 17 May 2012
A record La Niña event coupled with tropical cyclone Tasha generated most of the record deluge of rain that devastated much of Queensland in December 2010, but a new study has found that another big culprit was also in play - record high sea-surface temperatures off northern Australia.
1000 years of climate data confirms Australia's warming 17 May 2012
In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1000 years.
Jackson Tan's Maldives research: entry 10 09 November 2011
And so here I am in the Male International Airport, waiting to board my plane back home. It was a wild ride on the 50-seater from Gan to Male, though I should've expected that from radar and satellite images revealing intense convective activity there over the past few days.
Jackson Tan's Maldives research: entry 9 03 November 2011
The radars deployed here on Gan Island run 24/7 until the end of the DYNAMO field campaign in March next year. Consequently, every day is a working day. This is the nature of fieldwork.
The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers
Co-authored by Professor Steven Sherwood and Professor Matt England, this new Academy of Science report aims to summarise and clarify the current understanding of the science of climate change for non-specialist readers.
When commentators dismiss climate models as “merely models” it means they have failed to grasp how important models of all kinds have become to many parts of our daily life.
A recent report released by the Australian Academy of Science asserts that in order to respond effectively to the many contemporary challenges faced by the Earth’s environment, a new integrated approach to studying Earth System Science is needed.
