Posts Tagged ‘weather extremes’
Fire and Rain: Social Innovation and Community Leadership
Posted in Events, Research by Kate Archdeacon on July 26th, 2011
| 1 August , 2011 | ||
| 2 August , 2011 |
Fire And Rain: Social Innovation And Community Leadership In Natural Disaster Management And Emergency Services
This national conference will explore innovative community responses to Australia’s ongoing vulnerability to natural disasters and need for effective disaster risk management and emergency services. Its emphasis is on community-based innovation, self-help and leadership, with the aim of identifying and strengthening effective grassroots community responses to the ravages of fire, flood, drought and wind. The conference will identify cases around the country where social innovation and self-help are being implemented in creative ways. The conference will bring together community innovators and leaders, service practitioners, researchers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs and workers in community agencies who are interested in furthering social innovation and community self-help in these areas.
August 1 & 2
Angliss Conference Centre
Melbourne
Visit the website for more information
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The recent extreme weather: A scientific perspective
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on February 25th, 2011
| 1 March , 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Image: NASA Goddard Photo and Video via flickr CC
From monster cyclones in Queensland to floods in Victoria, bushfires in Perth, heat waves in Russia, snow storms in Europe… in the last year the world in general, and Australia in particular, seem to have experienced a large number of extreme weather events. Were these events due to normal climate fluctuations or to climate change? – And does this question even make sense? Please join us to hear from prominent climate scientists about how unusual these events were and what the science knows – and doesn’t know – about what caused them.
How extreme is the recent extreme weather?
Dr Karl Braganza, Manager of Climate Monitoring at the National Climate Centre of the Bureau of Meteorology
La Niña, cyclones, mozzies, and myxo
Professor Neville Nicholls, ARC Professorial Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University, and President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Extreme weather and climate change
Professor David Karoly, ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Meteorology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 6:00–7:30 pm
Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria (Entry 3, 179 La Trobe Street, Melbourne)
All welcome and no bookings required.
For further information, contact: msi-seminars “at” monash.edu
Presented by the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, and the Melbourne Centre of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
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David Spratt: Flood crisis and climate change
Posted in Events by Mark Ogge on February 4th, 2011
| 7 February , 2011 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
A monthly discussion group hosted by Beyond Zero Emissions focusing on energy solutions to climate change.
In February, we’re connecting up the dots between the floods in Queensland, Victoria, Brazil, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Pakistan AND climate change. Co-author of Climate Code Red, David Spratt, will summarise opinions in the media and examine the links between climate change and increasing extreme weather events. David is also an experienced advocate and will talk about the action we can take to tackle the climate emergency.
Time: 6:30- 8pm Monday 7 February 2011
Location: The Wood Theatre, ECONOMICS & COMMERCE (Building 148) Room:G09 ground floor. Enter building by main foyer (opposite Old Arts). Theatre entrance is off the foyer and is clearly sign posted.University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC
Click here for campus map.
Thank you to the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Energy Institute, our Zero Carbon Australia project partners for supporting us in bringing you this event.
Entry: Gold coin donation
Further reading:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/19/emergency-response-needed-for-more-t…
http://www.climatecodered.net/
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Wildlife doing it tough in the hot weather
Posted in Models by Ferne Edwards on February 10th, 2009
Please see post below by Monique Decortis, who also runs the Climate Action Calendar. Email her on decortis@ bigpond.net.au to join the mailing list.
Our wildlife is doing it tough in the hot weather – but a few minutes of your time can make a little difference, no matter where you live, simply by putting out fresh drinking water. Many people have birdbaths in a shady spot in their garden. These are great, but please also put out dishes with water on the ground in a shady, quiet spot in your gardens for animals such as skinks, lizards and echidnas, and for possums and sugar gliders who cannot get to birdbaths that are on a pedestal.
Ideally, use a shallow ceramic or terracotta dish so it does not tip over easily. Ensure that animals that fall into a dish can save themselves, by putting a rock (for shallow dishes) or a large stick or branch in any water container that is left outside. Many animals and birds are territorial, so put out several dishes of varying sizes around your garden.