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Thursday Feb 4, 2016 #
8 AM
Swimming 35:00 [2] 1.0 km (35:00 / km)
Swim in the hotel pool in Brisbane. Not quite as ferociously humid as it was when I arrived last night, but still fairly sticky. Swim felt reasonably mundane; as usual in a smallish pool, the backwash was a bit annoying until I got used to it, but at least I didn't get dizzy this time.
The talk went reasonably well (it was on how climate factors would, or would not, affect scenarios for a Brisbane River flood in 2036). Quite a lot of the results I was presenting, especially the modelling of mean and extreme rainfall, were only possible due to CSIRO climate modelling work. I'm not quite sure exactly who's supposed to be updating this work in future in the light of today's news about CSIRO; the fact that climate change exists may indeed be a solved problem (except in the eyes of a rabid fringe), but one might imagine that it might still be useful to, for example, narrow the range of predicted change in 1-in-20-year rainfall for the Brisbane River catchment to a range a bit smaller than +40 to -20%. I suspect we haven't heard the last of this one (and would not be at all surprised if space is being cleared in the schedule of next week's conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for us to go on a march somewhere).
The talk went reasonably well (it was on how climate factors would, or would not, affect scenarios for a Brisbane River flood in 2036). Quite a lot of the results I was presenting, especially the modelling of mean and extreme rainfall, were only possible due to CSIRO climate modelling work. I'm not quite sure exactly who's supposed to be updating this work in future in the light of today's news about CSIRO; the fact that climate change exists may indeed be a solved problem (except in the eyes of a rabid fringe), but one might imagine that it might still be useful to, for example, narrow the range of predicted change in 1-in-20-year rainfall for the Brisbane River catchment to a range a bit smaller than +40 to -20%. I suspect we haven't heard the last of this one (and would not be at all surprised if space is being cleared in the schedule of next week's conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for us to go on a march somewhere).