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Climate change science publications

Books & reports - climate change science

• Australian climate change research: perspectives on successes, challenges and future directions - 2007
• Climate change science - frequently asked questions
• Building a Future on Knowledge from the Past: What Palaeo-Science Can Reveal about Climate Change and its Potential Impacts in Australia - 2007
• Detecting, Understanding and Attributing Climate Change - 2006
• Stronger Evidence but New Challenges: Climate Change Science 2001-2005 - 2006
• Australian Climate Change Science Programme - Major Achievements - 2005
• Australian Climate Change Science Programme - Strategic Research Agenda - 2005
• Climate Change - An Australian Guide to the Science and Potential Impacts - 2003
• Climate change science and impacts and adaptation research: future directions - Proposed scope and focus of the Australian Greenhouse Science Program (AGSP) 2004-2008: A Discussion Paper, September 2003
• Costs and benefits of CO₂ increase and climate change on the Australian wheat industry - October 2001

Books & reports - impacts & adaptation

2008

• Managing Australian landscapes in a changing climate - a climate change primer for regional natural resource management bodies - 2008
• The Impacts and Management Implications of Climate Change for the Australian Government's Protected Areas - March 2008
• Implications of Climate Change for Australia's National Reserve System - A Preliminary Assessment - March 2008 (GH727)

2007

• Climate Change Adaptation Actions for Local Government - 2007 (GH709)
• Climate change in Australia - CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, 2007
• Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment - 2007 (GH712)
• An Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings to the Unavoidable Consequences of Climate Change - 2007

2006

• Impacts of Climate Change on Australian Marine Life - 2006 (GH694)
• Vulnerability to Climate Change of Australia's Coastal Zone: Analysis of gaps in methods, data and system thresholds - 2006
• International Assessments of the Vulnerability of the Coastal Zone to Climate Change, Including an Australian Perspective - 2006
• Assessing and Mapping Australia's Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change: Expert Technical Workshop - 2006
• Climate Change Scenarios for Initial Assessment of Risk in Accordance with Risk Management Guidance - 2006 (GH633)
• Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management - A Guide for Business and Government, 2006 (GH631)
• Climate Change: manage the RISKS - Risk Management Guidance Workshops - 30 May to 14 June 2006

2004-2005

• Climate Change: Risk and Vulnerability - Promoting an Efficient Adaptation Response in Australia, 2005 (GH548)
• Economic Issues Relevant to Costing Climate Change Impacts - 2004
• Climate Change in the Cairns and Great Barrier Reef Region - 2004
• Potential Effects of Global Warming on the Biota of the Australian Alps - 2004

1998-2003

• Cost-benefit Analysis of Mary River Salinity Mitigation - 2003 (GH513)
• Living with climate change - a national conference on climate change impacts and adaptation, Canberra, 2003 (GH453)
• Living with climate change - an overview of potential climate change impacts on Australia, December 2002 (GH365)
• Climate Change Scenarios and Managing the Scarce Water Resources of the Macquarie River - March 1998

Fact sheets - climate change science

• Climate Change - what does it mean?
• Hot topics in climate change science
  1. How reliable are climate models?
  2. The IPCC climate change scenarios
  3. How unusual is the late 20th century warming?
  4. Is there an inconsistency between satellite records of warming and surface measurements?
  5. Is recent climate change unusual in a geological context?
  6. Is global warming predominantly due to solar variability?
  7. Could global warming affect the thermohaline circulation?
  8. Trends in extreme weather events: Australia and globally, past and future
  9. What is causing the rainfall declines over southern Australia - ozone, climate variability or climate change?
  10. Have methane levels stabilised?
  11. Species extinctions will increase due to global warming
  12. Abrupt climate change - fact or fiction

Fact sheets - impacts & adaptation

• National Climate Change Adaptation Programme

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