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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.

Air pollution may be driving expansion of tropics - black carbon and near-surface ozone most likely culprits 17 May 2012 Man-made pollutants are likely to be pushing the boundary of the tropics further polewards in the Northern Hemisphere according to new research by a team of scientists.

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.

New expert report on Geoengineering released by IPCC 10 May 2012 The IPCC has released a Meeting Report for the IPCC Expert Meeting on Geoengineering. Geoengineering will be considered in the next IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.

Commission report sets the record straight on climate change 20 April 2012 Three of the Centre of Excellence’s Chief Investigators have set the record straight on the role of climate change in Australia’s recent flooding rains.

Rolling the climate dice 20 April 2012 Why an occasional “unusually cold season” should not lead to a dismissal of the idea that the globe is warming.

Reflections on Australia's e-research infrastructure in an international context 27 March 2012 Are climate researchers in Australia better off elsewhere?

Be a part of Centre of Excellence's first Climate Science Winter School 23 March 2012 The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science will host its first annual winter school on July 9-13 at the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

Centre of Excellence researcher wins the Priestley Medal 10 February 2012 Dr Lisa Alexander has just been named as the 2011 recipient of the Priestley Medal awarded by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS).

Sophisticated land surface scheme added to CSIRO Mk3L climate model 13 December 2011 The impact of the land surface on climate will be simulated better then ever before in the CSIRO Mk3L climate system model following the addition of a sophisticated land surface scheme.

Australian Academy of Science honours Centre of Excellence researchers 06 December 2011 Two Centre of Excellence researchers have been honoured by the Australian Academy of Science in its 2012 awards for scientific excellence.

Green Screen: Climate Fix Flicks film competition 05 December 2011 Climate scientists from Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University have joined forces and come up with a unique way to raise awareness about climate change and the benefits of moving towards a low carbon future.

Precipitation rains on land's climate change effects 20 November 2011 A recent paper in Nature Climate Change, which reveals how changes in snow and rain caused by global warming dominate the effects of land use change on regional climates, highlights the importance of the long-term research to be carried out by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Phosphorus affects carbon storage in soils and plants 17 November 2011 A lack of phosphorus in the Australian landscape could significantly limit the amount of carbon that can be stored in Australian soils, according to a new study in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Climate model projects a century of climate change in Tasmania 15 November 2011 The future climate of Tasmania has been studied in greater detail than ever before thanks to the work of a chief investigator at the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Studies, Professor Nathaniel Bindoff.

How we can save the endangered climate modeller 08 November 2011 Climate models save many lives and billions of dollars in property every year, yet the scientists who develop these important tools are fast disappearing.

Scientist declares climate modellers an "endangered species" 04 November 2011 Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Prof Christian Jakob, has called on the world’s climate scientists to develop a special “endangered species” program for climate modellers to help rebuild the thinning ranks of the climate modelling community.

Greenhouse gases to overpower ozone hole in the coming decades 03 November 2011 One set of human-created gases is starting to relinquish its hold on Antarctic climate as another group of human emissions is starting to take hold, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience, co-authored by ARC Laureate Fellow Professor Matthew England, -co-director of the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre.

Why experts refuse to debate climate 01 November 2011 Many climate scientists now refuse to take part in public forums debating climate change because it is impossible to do justice to the science.

Karin's PhD transformed by SOLAS Summer School 06 October 2011 PhD student Karin Kvale was recently selected to take part in the prestigious 5th International Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Summer School, which is held in Cargese, Corsica every second year.

Call for nominations for the 2011 Priestley Medal 21 September 2011 The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) is calling for nominations for The Priestley Medal.

Hogg's sea change reveals the power of our oceans 15 September 2011 Mariners have long recognised the extraordinary power of the sea, but not even they could have guessed at the impact research reveals it is having on our world.

Past changes reveal our climate change future 02 September 2011 If our knowledge of the past is the key to our understanding the future, then Dr Steven Phipps and the researchers at the International Union for Quaternary Research recent conference may have a clearer insight than most.

Undergrads opportunity to work with world leading climate scientists 01 September 2011 UNSW Science Faculty is calling for applications by no later than October 7, 2011, for its 2011-2012 Summer Vacation Research Scholarships for undergraduate students.

Minister confronted by Prof Will Steffen presentation 30 August 2011 The hard truths of climate change were brought home to a Tasmanian audience, which included Tasmanian Minister for Climate Change Cassy O’Connor, when Professor Will Steffen delivered a presentation at the University of Tasmania on Tuesday, August 23.

Climate scientists in demand 30 August 2011 A Sydney Morning Herald article featuring ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Director (COECSS) Prof Andy Pitman and PhD student Michael Bates emphasised the high demand for the next generation of climate scientists.

CCRC calls for AMOS conference abstracts 09 August 2011 The UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) is calling for abstracts for a major conference bringing together leading meteorological, oceanographic and climate scientists from Australia and around the world.

Respect the Science campaign launched 21 June 2011 A new "Respect the Science" campaign aimed at countering misinformation on science has been launched by Science and Technology Australia, the peak professional body representing 68,000 members in science and technology organisations across Australia.

Comment: Trust us, we're climate scientists 10 May 2011 “Why don’t scientists just get together and figure out what’s going on?” It’s a common question we hear about global warming. The answer is simple: “They have.”

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change – a "must read" 11 April 2011 There are alternative ways of addressing the challenge of climate change to the centralised, top-down approaches which have failed to achieve the deep cuts in carbon emissions required to avoid the serious effects of climate change, according to a recently published book authored by Ronald Brunner and Monash-based COECSS Chief Investigator Professor Amanda Lynch.

World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference 2011 03 March 2011 The World Climate Research Programme will host a major international Open Science Conference (OSC) on 24-28 October 2011 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Three climate experts given top advisory roles 15 February 2011 Three prominent climate scientists from UNSW have been appointed as expert advisors to the Federal Government's new independent Climate Commission.

Symposium on high-impact weather and extreme climate events, IUGG 2011 25 January 2011 The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) will hold an exciting, multi-disciplinary conference on cutting edge science in Melbourne, Australia in mid-2011.

Climate change effort wins Future Justice Prize 08 October 2010 An international team led by UNSW climate change researchers has won the inaugural 2010 Future Justice Prize for its efforts to synthesize and update a massive volume of scientific research in the lead-up to the UN Conference of Parties (COP15) meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.

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.

Professor Andy Pitman receives Office of Science and Medical Research NSW Scientist of the Year Award 16 September 2010 Professor Andy Pitman, leader of the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) co-director, has received the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research (OSMR) NSW Scientist of the Year 2010 Award in the Environment, Water and Climate Change Sciences category.

Warmest decade on record: new climate report 29 July 2010 A major international climate study has confirmed that the past decade was the warmest on record and that the Earth has been growing warmer over the last 50 years.

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence awarded in Climate System Science 20 July 2010 The new Centre for Climate System Science, headed by the co-director of the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre, Professor Andy Pitman, was awarded $21.4 million in the most recent round of ARC funding.

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