Links to other resources
Climate
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
IPCC Special Report: Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Our climate system: how it works and changes includes information about feedback loops, radiative forcing and climate sensitivity
State of the Climate 2016 by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
NSW weather and climate, see the Bureau of Meteorology
Our Weather and Climate and Australian Climate Influences – Bureau of Meteorology
The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers from the Australian Academy of Science
Emissions
Tracking Australia's greenhouse gas emissions Australian Government Department of the Environment
Cape Grim Greenhouse Gas Data collected by CSIRO from one of the cleanest air sources in the world
The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory and the Australian Greenhouse Emissions Information System
Carbon
Carbon Cycle by NASA Earth Observatory
Adapting to climate change in NSW
The NSW Adaptation Research Hub
NSW Public Health Special edition on environmental health challenges of climate change
Future Climate and Runoff projections (~2030) for New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory (PDF 2.4 MB) by the NSW Office of Water, CSIRO Land and Water and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Contains modelling that demonstrates an overall decrease in annual average rainfall, with winter rainfall likely to be lower across the entire region.
The AdaptWater tool (PDF 345 KB) used by Sydney Water
The NSW Government's 2017 Metropolitan Water Plan
202020 vision A partnership of organisations aiming to increase urban green space by 20 per cent before 2020.
