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Australia: Suncorp becomes huge believer in climate change
2016-08-04 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Financial Review: There is a strange dichotomy going on in the upper ranks of Suncorp, one of the country's biggest general insurers. Its CEO, Michael Cameron, is not convinced humans cause climate change but he has radically changed the company's reinsurance policies to protect shareholders against catastrophes that he believes are caused by climate change. Cameron told Chanticleer on Thursday that there is no doubt Australia's climate is changing. The proof, he says, is in the increased frequency of medium...
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Australia backs out of climate science cuts but the damage may be done
2016-08-04 08:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Australian scientists may be suffering from a case of whiplash. After deep funding cuts to the country's peak science body provoked international outcry in early 2016, the first move of the new science minister appears to be something of a reversal. On Thursday, Minister Greg Hunt appeared to encourage the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to renew its focus on climate science. "Climate science is important, it's significant, it's critical to our long-term...
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Turbo-charged climate ushered in 'parade of shattered records' in 2015
2016-08-04 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Earth's fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet. Soon after 2015 ended, it was proclaimed the hottest on record. The new report shows the broad extent of other records and near-records on the planet's climatic health. Those include record heat energy absorbed by the oceans and lowest groundwater storage levels globally, according to Tuesday's report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Australia boosts climate science research in u-turn
2016-08-04 06:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia made an abrupt climate change u-turn Thursday, with the issue set to again become a key focus of the national science agency just months after it saw hundreds of jobs cut in a heavily criticised move. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull -- a former environment minister -- has long been seen as a supporter of action on climate change but his government oversaw bitterly opposed cuts to national science body CSIRO earlier this year. But following the government's narrow re-election last month,...
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Climate scientists trained to be on hot seat
2016-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPR: Testimony from scientists can be crucial to lawmakers, judges and juries. But explaining complex topics like climate can be a challenge. A program at St. Paul's Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pairing scientists with lawyers to improve communication. "We're training scientists to be lawyers ... getting them to understand how important it is to not tweet, not make jokes, not do things that would be discovered that would hurt the credibility of their research," said Mitchell Hamline professor...
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