Solving our climate history puzzle

Climate scientist and paleoclimatologist Dr Joelle Gergis has spent over a decade painstakingly piecing together Australia’s climate history, using historical records dating back to the First Fleet, natural records held in our trees, corals and ice and computer modelling.

As she outlines in her book Sunburnt Country, published by Melbourne University Publishing, Australia’s climate has always been “spectacularly erratic”, but human activity has accelerated these rates of change.

As the developed nation most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, she says we must act now to slow its worst impacts.

Listen as Joëlle Gergis outlines some aspects of her new book - “Solving our climate history puzzle.”