1. Climate Change, the Australian Context
Papers:
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
Attribution of the Influence of Human‐Induced Climate Change on an Extreme Fire Season
Reports:
Australian Rainfall, Spring 2019 (Bureau of Meteorology)
Lowy Institute Polls, 2019: Climate change and energy
Australia’s emissions projections 2019
Quantifying CO2 from Australia’s fossil fuel mining and exports
State of the Climate (Bureau of Meteorology)
2. Is the climate changing?
Papers:
No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era
State of the Climate in 2018 (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures
Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades
Global reconstruction of historical ocean heat storage and transport
Reports:
State of the Climate (Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO)
Scientific Websites:
October 2019; Temperature Update (Berkeley Earth)
3. Is climate change due to human activity?
Papers
A probabilistic analysis of human influence on recent record global mean temperature changes
Man-made carbon-dioxide and the “Greenhouse effect”
Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
Global climate change as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three dimensional model
State of the Climate in 2018 (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures
Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity
Reports
State of the Climate (Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO)
Scientific websites
Climate at Glance: Global Time Series (NOAA)
How well have climate models predicted global warming? (Carbon Brief)
Scientific Consensus: Earth’s Climate is Warming (NASA)
4. Is it “normal variation”?
Papers
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Humans are driving one million species to extinction
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
Patterns and causes of extinction and decline in Australian conilurine rodents
Forecasting wildlife die‐offs from extreme heat events
Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes
Drought-driven change in wildlife distribution and numbers: a case study of koalas in south west Queensland
Darcy’s law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming
Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene
A new, high-resolution global mass coral bleaching database
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
Warming Trends and Bleaching Stress of the World’s Coral Reefs 1985–2012
Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals
Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century
The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave
Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave
Climate Impact on Plankton Ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic
Biogeochemical Controls and Feedbacks on Ocean Primary Production
Sites
The Flying Fox Heat Stress Forecaster
Media
Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day
5. Climate change and bushfires
Papers
Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
Attribution of the Influence of Human‐Induced Climate Change on an Extreme Fire Season
Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity
Future changes in extreme weather and pyroconvection risk factors for Australian wildfires
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires
As fires rage across Australia, fears grow for rare species
Use of expert knowledge to elicit population trends for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia
A human-driven decline in global burned area
The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests
A review of prescribed burning effectiveness in fire hazard reduction
Fire, Global Warming, and the Carbon Balance of Boreal Forests
Reports
State of the Climate (Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO)
The Koala – Endangered or Not?
Is Fuel Reduction Burning the Answer? (Brief to the Australian Parliament, Dec. 10, 2002.
Media
To save koalas from fire, we need to start putting their genetic material on ice
How effective is bushfire hazard reduction on Australia’s fires?
6. Impact of climate change on economic activity and human mortality
Papers
Reductions in labour capacity from heat stress under climate warming
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
The 2019 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.
Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia
Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths
Climate warming will not decrease winter mortality
Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being
7. Action to arrest further climate change
Papers
Meeting the world’s energy needs entirely with wind, water, and solar power
Meeting the world’s energy needs entirely with wind, water, and solar power
Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health
Eastern Europe’s forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive
The global tree restoration potential
Wildlife decline and social conflict
Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis
Global warming of 1.5°C: IPCC report
Assessing Transformation Pathways: IPCC report
Our vision of climate-neutral steel: renewable energies as an enabler
Mitigation Pathways Compatible with 1.5°C in the Context of Sustainable Development
Global energy transformation: A roadmap to 2050 (2019 edition)
The future of solar energy (MIT)
Concentrated solar thermal (Australian Government)
Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies
Electricity market (The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC))
Australian Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Emissions Projections to 2030
Bushfire weather (Bureau of Meteorology)
Draft South East Queensland Koala Conservation Strategy 2019–2024
Scientific websites:
How Much More Will Earth Warm? (NASA)
Adani’s Thermal Coal Mine in Queensland Will Never Stand on Its Own Two Feet
Fact check: Is Australian coal really cleaner than Indian coal? And does it even matter?
The 10GW solar vision that could turn Northern Territory into economic powerhouse
Sustainable Energy – With the Hot Air
Media
Australia needs its old coal generators, but it doesn’t need a new one
NEG will replace electricity markets with Soviet-style state planning
8. What is not causing global heating
Papers
A daily homogenized temperature data set for Australia
Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures
Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades
Global reconstruction of historical ocean heat storage and transport
Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia
An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science
Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States
Reports
Australia’s first criminal prosecution for research fraud (QLD Crime and Corruption Commission)
Queensland Floods Class Action (Supreme Court of NSW)
Websites
Bureau of Meteorology Media Statement – Climate Records
Is the Sun causing global warming?
Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming? (Carbon Brief)
A new era of climate change litigation in Australia?
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