Graham Readfearn

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01 10 2024 | 12:57

Global heating is making El Niño and La Niña forecasts less reliable, BoM says

The Bureau of Meteorology has Australia on ‘La Niña watch’ but says that if it does develop it is likely to be short-lived and weak. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian The Bureau of Meteorology…

18 09 2024 | 17:13

Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says

The aftermath of wild weather at Currumbin beach near the Gold Coast in 2020. Climate impacts are a major threat to Australia’s tourism industry, a new report says. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/…

08 09 2024 | 18:19

Without new gas, the Australian warns, an ‘energy crisis’ is nigh – but is the scary rhetoric justified?

The Victorian government has said it needs new sources of gas as production in the Bass Strait is slowing. Photograph: Design Pics/Alamy The gas industry has been unleashing a firehose of rhetoric…

08 09 2024 | 17:27

Alarm as Australia records ‘gobsmacking’ hot August temperatures

Friday afternoon at Bondi beach in Sydney, where the temperature reached 30C – the hottest August day on record since 1995. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images Australia’s winter runs from June…

02 09 2024 | 06:38

Chair of Nuclear for Australia denies that calling CO2 ‘plant food’ means he is a climate denier

Dr Adi Paterson, pictured when chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, accused Nasa of ‘confusing public understanding by publishing ground surface…

27 06 2024 | 11:00

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

At least 97% of corals on a reef in the Great Barrier Reef’s north died during one of the worst coral bleaching events the world’s biggest reef system has ever seen, according to new analysis.…

21 06 2024 | 17:16

The things that you’re liable to read in the IPCC bible ain’t necessarily so, Chris Uhlmann says. It’s a bold claim

You know you’re in for a bit of grandiose lecturing on climate change when conservative commentators start making comparisons to religion and throwing around quotes from the 20th-century science…

23 05 2024 | 11:43

CSIRO puts cost of new nuclear plant at $8.6bn as Coalition stalls on policy details

Electricity from nuclear power in Australia would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind, according to a report from the CSIRO that has for the first time calculated costs for large-scale…

18 04 2024 | 09:19

Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record, US government scientists have confirmed. Some 54%…

13 03 2022 | 16:44

What are conservative commentators saying about the floods and climate?

Floods and their causes are complicated and there has been a clamour for answers from Australians over the role global heating could have played in the devastation left along the east coast this week…

14 06 2021 | 08:47

Australian coal burnt overseas creates nearly twice the nation’s domestic emissions.

New data comes amid warning that world’s growing awareness of coal exports’ impact risks further damaging Australia’s reputation on climate. Emissions from coal mined in Australia but exported and…

30 05 2021 | 16:36

It’s on our plates and in our poo, but are microplastics a health risk?

The omnipresent plastic is rife in dust, rice, placentas and tap water, but experts say it’s hard to untangle whether it’s harmful to humans. As much as the idea might be unpalatable, all of our…

17 08 2020 | 17:13

Death Valley temperature rises to 54.4C – possibly the hottest ever reliably recorded

US National Weather Service’s automated station at Furnace Creek in California hit extreme high at 3:41pm on Sunday A temperature of 54.4C – or 129.9F – has been recorded in Death Valley,…