“Prediction is very difficult. Especially about the future” – so said Neils Bohr, the Danish physicist and 1922 Nobel Prize winner.
And you know what? I think the bloke was onto something there, especially…
Climate models allow us to look at the planet's future climate.
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We know the climate is changing because that’s what climate models tell us. But what exactly is a climate model, and are they cutting-edge science or modelling madness?
What is a climate model?
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The planet is warming up but a carbon price is not the way to help
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The world is getting warmer and wetter, almost undoubtedly due to the fact that we are burning up fossil fuels at an incredible rate.
While this change in our climate will lead to some positive opportunities…
Are these the sorts of speakers you go to a university to hear? AAP
The most important issue raised by Lord Monckton’s controversial appearance on two Western Australian campuses is not the limit of free speech or Monckton’s scientific competence. Rather it is whether…
Al Gore's launched a new campaign, but is anybody listening?
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By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National University
With the momentum of his Inconvenient Truth gradually fading, Al Gore has launched a new climate change action campaign – the Climate Reality Project.
The centrepiece of the campaign is a day of action…
The Galileo Movement co-opts the father of science's name to pursue an anti-science agenda.
CLEARING UP THE CLIMATE DEBATE: Professor Ian Enting takes a look at the front groups and published texts of Australia’s climate sceptics.
The “name-calling” in what passes for public debate on climate…
The decade ending 2010 was the warmest on record for Australia.
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CLEARING UP THE CLIMATE DEBATE: Bureau of Meteorology scientist Karl Braganza explains why we know the climate is changing, and what’s causing it.
In public discussions of climate change, the full range…
