CSIRO climate changes a 'Backward step' in decade of innovation

Matt England from the
UNSW sees CSIRO
changes as a
backward step.

Some of Australia's leading climate scientists will learn on Friday whether they still have a job when CSIRO managers provide details of savage cuts to their units.

“What a backward step in this supposed decade of innovation” –

Matt England, UNSW.

Larry Marshall, the new CSIRO chief executive, told staff by email on Thursday that 350 jobs would go over the next two years, with climate scientists in the Ocean and Atmosphere, and Land and Water units bearing the brunt of the cuts. Data and Manufacturing were also hit.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “CSIRO scientists to learn their fate after more deep cuts to climate programs.”