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Editor's note
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While it’s true that Earth’s temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated, the reality is that humans’ greenhouse emissions since the industrial revolution have sent us into uncharted territory.
Our new video animation, made with the help of climatologists Ben Henley and Nerilie Abram, puts the latest burst of carbon dioxide into the context of 800,000 years of prehistoric climate records. Set against that backdrop, the pace of change in temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is clearly anything but natural.
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Michael Hopkin
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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Ice cores are a window into the past hundreds of thousands of years.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Ludovic Brucker
Ben Henley, University of Melbourne; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University
The current rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is unprecedented in the past 800,000 years. As our video explains, ice cores track human changes to the atmosphere that are far beyond natural.
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Business + Economy
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Shelley Marshall, RMIT University
The Australian government is missing a vital opportunity to promote ethical business practice and mediate disputes before they blow up, by improperly resourcing the ANCP.
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Cities
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Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney
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Health + Medicine
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David Ben-Tovim, Flinders University
Australians can't tell which private hospital is safer then the next because the data isn't publicly available. It's time that changed.
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Politics + Society
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Nada Ibrahim, University of South Australia
Islam’s position on domestic violence is drawn from the Qur’an, prophetic practice, and historical and contemporary legal verdicts.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
In a security update on the threats facing Australia at home and abroad, Turnbull will say that an "online civil society is as achievable as an offline one."
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Arts + Culture
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Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
As populism reemerges, Thucydides’s insights into the power of words to influence public sentiments remain acutely up-to-date.
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Science + Technology
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Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
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Education
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Jessa Rogers, University of Canberra
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