Climate scientist Nadir Jeevanjee speaks on The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the pioneers of climate modelling got many of their predictions right.
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Weather forecasting is improving at a great rate, even though climate change could be making it tougher.
Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.
Processes like La Niña set the scene for the sort of extreme weather that has hit eastern Australia. But what decides which towns and suburbs are hit hardest, and which ones are spared?
An accurate seafloor map can improve oceanographic and climate models, secure marine navigation, inform defence operations, and guide environmental decisions.
Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to improve the species. Put into practice, Galton’s concept proved discriminatory, damaging, even deadly.
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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