I wrote this article one year ago today, but I’m republishing it here because, well, it’s still relevant. On August 14 1912, a small New Zealand newspaper published a short article announcing global coal usage was affecting our planet’s temperature. This piece from 111 years ago is now famous, shared across the internet this timeContinue reading “For 111 years, climate change has been in the news. Are we finally ready to listen?”
Category Archives: Climate change
Visualising climate change
Recently I was invited to talk to the computer science students at John Monash Science School by their wonderful teacher and all round superstar, Dr Linda McIver. The students had been working on different ways to show climate change data, Linda told me. Could we talk about that? A chance to look at visualisations ofContinue reading “Visualising climate change”
The thing about wind
I’ve written before about my frustration/hatred of wind in daily life, but today I wanted to raise another complaint: using wind data in past climate research. Wind direction is easy and cheap to monitor. All you really need is a damp finger and a decent sense of which way is north. The strength of windContinue reading “The thing about wind”
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