Most say climate change is real, but won't accept the blame

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ost Australians accept climate change is real, but the majority do not trust scientists when they say it has a human cause.

That was the finding of a new survey conducted by the CSIRO, which found 75 per cent of respondents believe the planet is warming, but only 46 per cent believed the phenomenon was man-made, with 39 per cent attributing it to natural causes.

The remainder either didn’t know what they thought on the issue (7 per cent) or rejected the science all-together (8 per cent).

Respondents diverged predictable along political lines.

Read The New Daily story - “Slim majority of Aussies reject climate science.”

CSIRO models help us quench of thirst for knowledge about the future

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e all have an interest in whether rain will dampen our day and a curiosity about what the skies hold for next week. We are all impacted when the weather turns extreme, sometimes in devastating ways. And we have a yearning to know what the future might hold for our climate, so that we can plan ahead.

Weather and climate may never be completely predictable, but science has come far enough for us to be breaking new ground when it comes to projecting what Australia’s climate may look like decades – or even hundreds of years – in the future.

And here’s a sneak peak into the future – by the year 2090, Sydney could have the climate of Brisbane, and Melbourne could have the climate of Dubbo.

Read more of what Chris Gerbing has to say in “Australia’s Next Top climate models”.