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Grim prospects: the shake-up of Australia's climate science
2016-03-11 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The fate of the 'sentinel of the southern hemisphere' is a pointer to how Australia's climate research will fare in a funding world that has lately turned more hostile. Forty years ago next month Paul Fraser and three other CSIRO scientists towed a hardy NASA-built caravan chock with sensitive detecting equipment to Cape Grim on the pristine windswept tip of north-west Tasmania. The make-shift facility quickly made its mark, detecting ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere as they blew...
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