Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Health, environment and climate change – Technical Briefing at WHA72
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Read MoreSydney declares a climate emergency – what does that mean in practice?
Chris Turney, UNSW Late on Monday night, the City of Sydney became the second state capital in Australia (after Hobart a week earlier) to officially declare a climate emergency. With climate change considered a threat to human life, Sydney councillors unanimously supported a motion put forward by Lord Mayor Clover Moore to mobilise city resources…
Read MoreWhy old-school climate denial has had its day
New South Wales, which was 100% drought-declared in August 2018, is already suffering climate impacts. Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University The Coalition has been re-elected to government, and after six years in office it has not created any effective policies for reducing greenhouse emissions. Does that mean the Australian climate change debate is stuck…
Read MoreWarm ice in Mount Everest’s glaciers makes them more sensitive to climate change – new research
Katie Miles, Aberystwyth University Often when the topic of glaciers and climate change is discussed, focus shifts to those in Greenland and Antarctica. But there are glaciers elsewhere too, such as in the Himalayas, which play a vital part in supplying water to people who live downstream. Now, our research has found that these glaciers…
Read MoreThe Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised
Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong; Joelle Gergis, University of Melbourne; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University, and Steven Phipps, University of Tasmania. Originally published at The Conversatio in 2016. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, no one would have thought that their burning of fossil fuels would have an almost immediate effect on the…
Read MoreArctic ice loss is worrying, but the giant stirring in the South could be even worse
Nerilie Abram, Australian National University; Matthew England, UNSW, and Matt King, University of Tasmania A record start to summer ice melt in Greenland this year has drawn attention to the northern ice sheet. We will have to wait to see if 2019 continues to break ice-melt records, but in the rapidly warming Arctic the long-term…
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