Peter Hannam

🚨 Australia’s weather forecasting is under threat — and the danger is coming from Washington. | The Hon. Matt Kean 🚨 Australia’s weather forecasting is under threat — and the danger is coming from Washington. In a deeply interconnected world, climate science doesn’t stop at borders. Australia relies on global sat...

Chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, op-Ed in the SMH/Age on the need to protect our weather forecasts from US cuts, with links to our earlier Conversation article.

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Forecasting wild weather just got more difficult, thanks to Donald Trump Globally connected early warning systems help us prepare for extreme weather events. Now those systems are under a cloud.

Important issues raised in this oped by Matt Kean, chair of Australia’s Climate Change Authority:
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And for mean temperatures, here is how Australia stacked up in July (above average again)…

For minimums, averages were closer to the norm, last month:

Temperature-wise, Australia in July was warmer than average… here are the maximums.

Overall, national rainfall in July was close to the long-run average…

But year-to-date, many of those regions remain relatively dry…
(Via BoM)

An unusually sodden month in July for parts of southern Australia…

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Headline aside, this report on climate attribution (from the Wall Street Journal) gives readers of The Australian an unusually detailed assessment of the climate drivers of extreme weather…

Here’s how southern Australia’s waters set a record for temperatures in the 12 months to June (Via BoM)…

Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean weighs in South Australia’s marine woes… (Via AFR)

By accident or by design…an odd juxtaposition in the AFR today…

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

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While the extended cool nights in June produced an increasingly rare below-average month for minimum temperatures…

And mean temperatures in June were above average …

As for temperatures, June was above average for maximum temperatures…

But for June, rainfall was well-below average nationally…

Meanwhile July-June rainfall was slight above average, nationally…

And for minimum temperatures, also a July-June record…
Notably absent were below-average readings.

And it was a July-June period for maximum temperatures…

Australia just posted its hottest July-June period on record for mean temperatures…
(Via BoM)

And year to date, it’s been extremely dry across much of the west and south…
(Via BoM)

June in Australia was dry across much of the inland…

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Time is running out…

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Dust storms in South Australia during winter. Didn’t have that on my bingo card (for a few more years) but here we are.

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

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Matt highlights the history of extinctions in Australia, including the threat already posed by climate change. The Australian Museum already holds two extinction cabinets for mammals…that we do not want to expand on!

Matt Kean, chair of the Climate Change Authority gave the Talbot Oration at the Australian Museum last night… worth a read:

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