University of New South Wales - CCRC

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Top climate scientists release Bali Declaration

More than 200 leading climate scientists, lead by UNSW Climate Scientists, have warned the United Nations Climate Conference of the need to act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with a window of only 10-15 years for global emissions to peak and decline, and a goal of at least a 50% reduction by 2050.

Bali Declaration urges tough greenhouse limits

UNSW climatologists warn that if immediate action is not taken, many millions of people will be at risk from extreme events such as heatwaves, drought, floods and storms, with coasts and cities threatened by rising sea levels, and many ecosystems, plants and animal species in serious danger of extinction.

Nobel Peace Prize: UNSW helps climate of change

UNSW atmospheric scientist Andy Pitman has cause to celebrate with winning of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the UNs intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A member of the IPCC, Professor Pitman has over the past decade been a leading contributor to IPCC reports describing the human contribution to global warming and climate change. An expert in climate modelling, he was lead author of part of the recent global report card.

UNSW takes the lead on climate change

UNSW Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer has earmarked sustainability as a priority for the University - in research, teaching and in the way the campus operates.

Nobel Peace Prize winners worthy recipients: scientists

Professor Matthew England and Professor Andy Pitman discuss Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) as worthy co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize in their leading the charge against the greatest challenge the world has ever faced.

Al Gore joint winner of Nobel Peace Prize

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded today to former US vice-president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Norwegian Nobel committee announced in Oslo.

UNSW to establish major new Climate Change Research Centre

A major new climate change research centre is to be established at the University of New South Wales, with a $6 million funding boost.

Seas could rise higher than we thought

Leading climatologist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf reveals that sea-level rises caused by global warming are higher than those published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this year.

Australia will burn unless emissions cut

Andy Pitman, UNSW, Climate Change Research Centre, says there will be a 100 to 200 per cent increase in bushfire risk by 2100 if Australia continues on its path of high emissions.

New Uni Climate Change Alliance

Three of Australias top Universities (UNSW, The Australian National University and Monash University) have formed an alliance to spearhead national leadership in climate change research, education and policy.

Big dry: no one knows why

Professor Andy Pitman and Professor Matthew England discuss rainfall as one of the biggest climate change issues in NSW.

Mystery of east coasts big dry

Professor Pitman and Professor England join forces to solve the mystery of how climate change is affecting our rainfall.

Major new Climate Change Research Centre

A major new Climate Change Research Centre is to be established at the University of New South Wales, with a $6 million funding boost.

An addiction that fouls the air

Ben McNeil discusses geosequestration as a longterm initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change making Christmas fare a real turkey

Ben McNeil discusses the hip-pocket effect of climate change.

Selling Hot Air

Matthew England discusses recent changes in the politics of climate change.

Climate issues move to centre stage in the US

Australia will only change its policy on global warming if it gets the nod from the US, writes CEDL Research Fellow Ben McNeil, as published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2006.

CEDL Researchers win 2006 Eureka Prize

CEDL researchers, Professor Matthew England and Alex Sen Gupta, and Dr Michael Dawson (Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies, UNSW) have been awarded the Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, 2006.

An Inconvenient Truth

Comments on the film by Professor Matthew England of the Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory at the University of NSW as published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2006.

CEDL Finalists for 2006 Eureka Prizes

CEDL researchers have been finalised for two of the 2006 Eureka Prizes, the Land & Water Australia Eureka Prize for Water Research, and the Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

Southern Ocean Impacts on Australian Climate

CSIRO article on research by Professor Matthew England, May 2006.

Huge, wet and mysterious: new climate study probes the worlds largest ocean current

UNSW article on research conducted by CEDL members, 27th February 2006.

Ships Bring Alien Jellyfish Invaders

UNSW report on the article, Rapid Evolutionary Radiation of Marine Zooplankton in Peripheral Environments, in PNAS.

Alien jellyfish hitch a ride on ships

ABC Online report dated Tuesday, 16th August 2005.

Reading Past Climates to see the Future

School of Mathematics, UNSW, article on CEDL Research conducted by Matthew England & Willem Sijp.

Greenhouse Gases linked to drought

ABC Radio program The World Today aired, 14th November 2005.