10 October 2019. The Conversation. It’s only October, so what’s with all these bushfires? New research explains it. Summer might be more than six weeks away, but out-of-control bushfires have already torn across parts of eastern Australia in recent days, destroying … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Science
7 June 2019, The Conversation, Why there’s more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere than you may have realised. This week brought news that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels at the Mauna Loa atmospheric observatory in Hawaii have risen steeply for the seventh … Continue reading →
12 May 2019, Scientific American. Global Warming: How Hot, Exactly, Is it Going to Get? The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers. magine spending your whole career working on a question to which you don’t want to know the … Continue reading →
2 May 2019, NOAA Climate.gov Understanding climate: Antarctic sea ice extent. As it does in the Arctic, the surface of the ocean around Antarctica freezes over in the winter and melts back each summer. Antarctic sea ice usually reaches its annual maximum … Continue reading →