Contrary to the claims of One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts’ that climate change is not happening, there is abundant evidence it is, but it might not be enough to persuade him.
Victoria was one of several states to suffer bushfires as temperatures soared in late 2015.
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2015 was the world’s hottest year on record. The US State of the Climate report has rounded up the litany of temperature and other records that were broken all over the globe.
Public funding is vital for programs like CSIRO’s research vessel RV Investigator, which is too expensive for universities to run.
CSIRO
Science Minister Greg Hunt’s call for CSIRO to do a U-turn on climate research is a welcome move after months of criticism, at home and abroad, of the agency’s previous direction.
Was the prime minister right about storms and global warming?
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Was Malcolm Turnbull right to say that larger and more frequent storms are one of the predicted consequences of climate change – but that you can’t attribute any particular storm to global warming?
Has Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth had much lasting impact in the ten years since it was released?
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Ten years have passed since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth hit the US box office. Has the film been successful in increasing awareness and action on climate change?
Ancient air bubbles preserved in Antarctic ice.
The Ellsworth Mountains Project
Research showing that more than 90% of climate scientists agree that we’re causing global warming prompted plenty of questions. And the authors are only too happy to answer.
Research expeditions, like this one to Antarctica, don’t have to rely on governments for funding.
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In an atmosphere of declining government funding for science, researchers can drum up excitement and funding in other ways, just as they did in Edwardian times.
CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has announced a new climate research centre.
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As the world warms, Antarctica’s melting ice will likely reach the point of no return.
Senator Ian Macdonald, pictured here speaking against the carbon tax in 2014, has since described human-induced climate change as “farcical and fanciful”.
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After fighting the 1990 election on a stronger climate platform than Labor, the following two decades saw an ebb and flow of climate scepticism in the Liberal Party, which still continues today.
Climate change has been implicated in record-breaking temperatures across the 20th century.
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