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Climate

• Overview
• Recent news
• Understanding
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Effects on marine ecosystems
• Natural variability Vs Human impact debate
• Impacts and Risks
• Water Supply/Rainfall
• Climate processes and system modelling

Overview

• Climate Change
• Understanding our Changing Climate
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Preparing for the Impacts of Changing Climate
• Research to assist climate decision-making

Recent news

• Improved climate change projections for SE Asia [27/5/09]
• New research on climate change and waves released [11/9/08]
• Drought Report pushes alarm bells [Podcast 15/07/08]
• Kyoto Protocol: first lap in long race against time [07/05/08]
• Antarctic route highlights new ocean-climate links [18/02/08]
• OzClim: Exploring climate change scenarios for Australia - Online application launched [12/02/2008]
• Ancient climate secrets raised from ocean depths [1/02/08]
• Submersible in 2.5 km dive for climate science [10/01/08]
• More climate change news

Understanding

• Assessment of future global scenarios for the Garnaut Climate Change Review [PDF 8MB]
• CSIRO's contribution to Garnaut Climate Change Review [Fact sheet]
• The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research
• Understanding and predicting climate change - Capability
• Understanding climate change [links]
• Oceans, climate and weather – relationship examined [2007 Malcolm McIntosh Lecture presented Dr Greg Ayers, February 07]
  • Presentation: The Oceans in our Climate System [PDF 6.2MB]
  • Podcast: The effect of climate and weather on our oceans: Dr Greg Ayers
• Understanding drought
• Dr John Church's award-winning climate change research - Video

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• IPCC Standard Output from the CSIRO Mk3.0 Climate System Model - research paper [May 08]
• Climate change in Australia: technical report 2007 [report]
• New projections for Australia’s changing climate - media [2/10/2007]
• CSIRO’s role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report - Podcast [9 Feb 07]
• CSIRO’s response to second volume of IPCC report (Dr Chris Mitchell) Podcast (4 mins)
• Stronger evidence for human-induced climate change - media [2/2/2007]
• CSIRO climate model results used for international benchmarking studies

Effects on marine ecosystems

• Climate change, fisheries and the marine environment [overview]
• Marine Climate Impacts & Adaptation Stream [website]
• Assessing climate change impacts on Pacific marine ecosystems through international collaboration
• Climate’s challenge to marine life in a future ocean - media [4/04/2007]
• Fish growth enhanced by climate change - media [27/03/2007]
• Climate change effects on marine ecosystems report - fact sheet
• ReefTemp - Daily updates to assess Great Barrier Reef bleaching

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Natural variability Vs Human impact debate

• Why The Great Global Warming Swindle is wrong
• Refuting claims that climate forecasts are all up in the air
• Refuting The Great Global Warming Swindle television program
• The Great Global Warming Swindle: fact or fiction? [podcast]
• The Great Global Warming Swindle: a critique
• Dr Michael Raupach: understanding continental and global environmental change
• The science of discussing climate change
• Humans do contribute to global warming

Impacts and Risks

• Marine Climate Impacts & Adaption Stream [website]
• The Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS)
• Climate change impacts on Australia and benefits of early action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions
• Regional impacts of climate change
• Dr Penny Whetton (Climate change impacts and risks)
• Climate Change Consultancy: Publications
• Climate Change Consultancy: Reports 1989-2001
• How climate change will affect our wine: Dr Penny Whetton [Podcast]
• Climate change impacts and indigenous Australian communities
• ‘Unnatural’ WA warming/drying to be investigated - media [29/03/2007]

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Water Supply/rainfall

• Understanding how climate change affects water supply
• ‘Human hand’ in south-west WA rainfall reduction - media [30/03/2007]
• ‘Asian haze’ impacts on Australian rainfall - media [12/12/2006]
  • Australian rainfall and Asian aerosols - Ppublication
  • Aerosols and the climate - Ffact Ssheet

Climate processes and system modelling

• OzClim: Exploring climate change scenarios for Australia - Online application
• The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research
• ACCESS: The Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator
• Monitoring ocean carbon levels in the Southern Ocean
• Ozone depletion

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Last updated 8/07/09