Mitchell Black

April 28, 2016

Great Barrier Reef bleaching would be almost impossible without climate change

Andrew King, The University of Melbourne; David Karoly, The University of Melbourne; Mitchell Black, The University of Melbourne; Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, The University of Queensland, and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW

This summer’s record-breaking coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef was made 175 times more likely thanks to climate change.

March 7, 2016

We traced the human fingerprint on record‑breaking temperatures back to the 1930s

Andrew King, The University of Melbourne and Mitchell Black, The University of Melbourne

Record-breaking years have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change.

November 5, 2015

A year of records: the human role in 2014’s wild weather

Mitchell Black, The University of Melbourne; Andrew King, The University of Melbourne, and David Karoly, The University of Melbourne

2014 saw heatwaves of all kinds and other wild weather. Research can now explain that climate change made these events much more likely.

October 29, 2015

It’s been Australia’s hottest ever October, and that’s no coincidence

David Karoly, The University of Melbourne and Mitchell Black, The University of Melbourne

This has been Australia’s hottest October on record. And the record-breaking temperatures are at least six times more likely thanks to human-induced global warming.