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Public Lecture: Will the Earth be Too Hot for your Grandchildren to Handle? The Science and Politics of Carbon Emissions and Storage

Glyn Davis Theatre (Formerly Basement Theatre, B117) Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design) Parkville campus Masson Road, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

This lecture will outline the history of atmospheric temperatures in both the recent and distant past. Professor Huppert will explain the definite connection between the carbon dioxide and methane content of the atmosphere with the average global surface temperature. He will present a range of predictions of the Earth’s future climate, as well as practical... View Article

Seminar: Using observations to improve ensemble-based climate projections and the Ensemble Dependence Transformation

Australian German Climate and Energy College Level 1, 187 Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Craig Bishop (University of Melbourne) This seminar introduces the “replicate Earth” ensemble interpretation framework, based on theoretically derived statistical relationships between ensembles of perfect models (replicate Earths) and observations. We transform an ensemble of (imperfect) climate projections into an ensemble whose mean and variance have the same statistical relationship to observations as an ensemble of... View Article

Seminar: Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement

Australian German Climate and Energy College Level 1, 187 Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Neil Craik (University of Waterloo) While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering (CE) expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to “well below” 2°C and to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increases to 1.5°C”, (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts... View Article

CSIRO Aspendale Women’s Network – special guest panel event and lunch

CSIRO Aspendale Theatre 107-121 Station Street, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia

Q&A style panel discussion on the career journeys of our senior women, then networking lunch. Panelists include: Assoc Prof Julie Arblaster (School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University); Helen Cleugh (Director of the Climate Science Centre, CSIRO); Beth Ebert (Research Program Leader at the Bureau of Meteorology); and Andrea Hinwood (Chief Scientist at Victoria’s... View Article

Seminar: Larsen C Ice Shelf: Melt, ponding, ice-dynamics and the birth of a one trillion tonne iceberg

Flex Spaces, Salamanca 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Adrian Luckman (Swansea University). Larsen C Ice Shelf: Melt, ponding, ice-dynamics and the birth of a one trillion tonne iceberg In 2017, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This talk covers the work of a team who spent years studying the ice shelf and... View Article

Seminar: Urban life and climate change

Evan Williams Theatre Peter Hall Building G03, 813 Swanston Street, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Somini Sengupta (New York Times) At a time when the majority of the world’s population is urban, climate change presents grave new risks for the world’s cities and forces city folks to figure out how to survive. Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter for The New York Times, considers the scale of the problem and the... View Article

Land-atmosphere meeting – UNSW dial-in

UNSW Zoom Online, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Topic: Land-atmosphere meeting 27/3 Time: Mar 27, 2019 3:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/631434305 Or iPhone one-tap:  16699006833,631434305# or 16465588656,631434305# Or Telephone:     Dial: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) Meeting ID: 631 434 305     International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/aptljBZ8m... View Article

Seminar: Using natural history collections to understand adaptive responses to environmental change

Tas-Auditorium CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Jeff Good (University of Montana) Rapid environmental change threatens global biodiversity and has already led to the decline or extirpation of many taxa. Although phenotypic plasticity may enable populations to rapidly track changing climates, evolutionary adaptation will be essential for the long-term persistence of many species. Disentangling plasticity from evolutionary responses ultimately requires resolving the... View Article