Given the rarified and often polarised nature of Australia’s national conversation on climate change, you might think introducing climate change into weather bulletins would see a flood of negative feedback. Associate Prof David Holmes, the hub’s director, says an overwhelming majority of Australians are very concerned about climate change. Understanding and quantifying the role that rising emissions have on weather events is a scientific field known as climate attribution. According to the research, climate change was directly responsible for about half of the above average heat that month – or about 0.9C. “Climate change used to be this big ethereal thing that was hard to understand.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2020 18:56 UTC