Quote of the Week - "John's work is all around securing Australia's future. His work could lead to saving billions of dollars of poor investment in infrastructure around the coast, billions of dollars securing coastlines."

Professor Matthew England, a climate researcher at the University of NSW, says "John's work is all around securing Australia's future.  His work could lead to saving billions of dollars of poor investment in infrastructure around the coast, billions of dollars securing coastlines."

If the cuts to Australian climate research were crafted on the basis that we can leave the heavy lifting to other nations and then piggyback on their findings – as many experts suspect – we've got another think coming, England says.

"Why do we keep harping on about southern-hemisphere capacity?  Because a North American climate team is not going to be looking at those corners of the model nearly so much as they do the regional US climate.  The US Government is funding them to do the best possible research for their region."

The whole way the CSIRO is framing science costs and pursuing profits is out of whack, England argues.  "The benefits of John Church's work will far outlive his lifetime."

John Church and the rising ocean by Jo Chandler, The Age, Aug 13, 2016

Read original at 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #33