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4 ways to understand why Australia is so cold right now despite global warming
Weather needs to be put in a long term context to understand why cold weather extremes still happen as global warming also occurs.
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Tackling inequality and challenges faced by women and other under-represented groups in science
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is a Women in STEM Decadal Plan Champion
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Understanding Australia’s rainfall
By bringing together researchers focussed on the large-scale modes of climate variability with researchers investigating weather and land surface processes, our goal is to improve the regional predictions of how rainfall extremes will change in the future.
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A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down. If it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia
At no time in Earth’s history, giant meteorites and super-volcanos aside, has our climate system been jolted by changes in atmospheric gas composition like what we are imposing today by our unabated burning of fossil fuels.
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Why is it so cold right now? And how long will it last? A climate scientist explains
Australia may see more cold spells than normal in winter 2022.
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Planetary waves, cut-off lows and blocking highs: what’s behind record floods across the Southern Hemisphere?
Global warming is likely to lead to more intense rainfall because warmer air can hold more moisture.
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“We must invest in the next generation of climate science leaders”
Over 50 emerging climate scientists head to Canberra
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Climate change is killing trees in Queensland’s tropical rainforests
Climate change is making the air ‘thirstier’, taking more water from trees by evaporation.
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New data challenges “time we have left” and the carbon budget
The “climate gamble” grows every year, but we still have time
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Video: Climate Science – what it is, why it matters and what it tells us
What is climate science? Why does climate science matter? What does climate science tell us?
