Yes, there's nothing new under the sun

Tom Arup.

Think global warming is a recent phenomenon? Well, climate scientists have some news for you.

An international team of researchers, including Australian scientists, have traced humanity's influence through greenhouse gas emissions on creating extreme weather events right back to 1937.

Climate scientists have in recent times become more confident in ascribing individual extreme weather to climate change, with the tendency having been to focus on recent, newsworthy events, including Australian heatwaves.

Read Tom Arup’s story in the Melbourne Age - “Scientists trace human influence on extreme weather events back to 1937.”