On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 the Hon Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, hosted a roundtable meeting of top scientists and experts to work together in response to the devastating bushfires. Minister Andrews highlighted that disaster response, recovery and resilience activities should be informed by multi-disciplinary research. Bushfire research, as well as…
Topics: Bushfire Science Roundtable and climate science E&OE: Lisa Wilkinson: Well, Karen Andrews is the Science Minister who met with Australia’s top scientists today to discuss the response to the bushfire crisis and she joins us now. Minister, if I can first just take a quick look at the PM earlier today. [Excerpt] Question: What’s your…
Topics: Bushfire Science Roundtable, climate change E&OE Question: Thank you Minister for your time. Your roundtable today, what is that looking at? Karen Andrews: We’re looking at a few issues at today’s roundtable. We’re actually going to be having a look at the bushfires that are currently underway across Australia; what evidence we have been able…
Australia’s bushfire crisis has prompted a blunt warning from Science Minister Karen Andrews to those she says are wasting time arguing about whether climate change is real. Ms Andrews will convene a roundtable meeting of top scientists on Wednesday to kickstart work in response to the “devastating and surprising” bushfires this summer. Ms Andrews warned…
Topics: Bushfire Science Roundtable, climate change E&OE Tom Tilley: Australia’s top science leaders and bushfire experts are gathering in Canberra today to help the Morrison Government thrash out a plan to deal with longer and more severe bushfire seasons. Representatives from the CSIRO, the Academy of Science, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC will share…
Topics: Bushfire Science Roundtable, climate change E&OE Joe O’Brien: The role of science and technology in fighting and reducing the risk of bushfires will be addressed by experts in Canberra today. Science Minister Karen Andrews will meet representatives from the CSIRO, the Academy of Science, along with bushfire researchers. She says today’s roundtable will be…