New Australian climate science center to open in wake of massive job cuts

Physics Today ◽  
2016 ◽  
Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Kollipara

After unveiling major planned cuts to climate science early this year, Australia's main science agency proposes a center to coordinate remaining projects. Many decry the proposal as an empty gesture.


Circular ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Andrews ◽  
April Taylor ◽  
Kimberly T. Winton

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Kollipara

The recently unveiled planned shift from basic climate research toward responses to a transformed climate could cost research jobs, hamper climate studies, and limit data gathering and analysis.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Julia Miller

The theory of a nineteen-year climate cycle put forward by acclaimed New SouthWales Government Astronomer Henry Chamberlain Russell is arguably one of his least successful contributions to science. Yet his ability to draw global connections made Russell a pioneer in the field of climate science— one whose innovative thinking helped prepare the way for much later achievements in the field of seasonal prediction. While controversial, Russell's theory sparked intense interest in meteorology and climate cycles and, at a time when extreme weather events were putting pressure on agriculture and pastoralism in New South Wales, it addressed the question of whether the Australian climate was undergoing permanent change. An historical understanding of ideas about climate cycles illuminates current debates on how to address the problems associated with anthropogenic climate change.


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