Helen McGregor – The Conversation

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

August 7, 2024

‘Wake‑up call to humanity’: research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it’s been in 400 years

Ben Henley, The University of Melbourne; Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, The University of Queensland

We must face a confronting truth: if humanity does not divert from its current course, our generation will likely witness the demise of one of Earth’s great natural wonders.

The coral reef of Rarotonga helped scientists create a better climate history. Corey Huber

May 6, 2019

El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records

Mandy Freund, The University of Melbourne; Ben Henley, The University of Melbourne; David Karoly, CSIRO; Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong, and Nerilie Abram, Australian National University

El Niño events can affect millions of people around the world, causing drought in Australia and floods in the Americas.

You can only truly understand the weather by flying above the clouds. NASA

November 25, 2016

Please, Donald Trump, don’t send climate science back to the pre‑satellite era

Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong and Jenny Fisher, University of Wollongong

Far from being “politicised science”, as a Trump advisor has claimed, NASA’s satellite monitoring has been a crucial help in understanding the planet we live on.

Britain’s industrial pioneers couldn’t have known how they would affect the climate. Henry Gastineau

August 24, 2016

The Industrial Revolution kick‑started global warming much earlier than we realised

Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong; Joëlle Gergis, The University of Melbourne; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University, and Steven Phipps, University of Tasmania

The first signs that humans were warming the climate appeared much earlier in the northern hemisphere - way back in the 1830s. But now the trend is emerging all over the globe.

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