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Weight of the world

Decades ago, three pioneering Australian scientists were some of the first to warn the world about a looming climate crisis. They were branded alarmists and faced political pressure. We hear how they made their discoveries, the personal toll it took on them, and how, during the hottest year on record, they stay hopeful

  • Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

    The scientist who was branded alarmist for exposing the fate of coral reefs

  • Ove Hoegh-Guldberg received death threats for his work. He kept fighting anyway – video

  • Climate art for the weight of the world series on climate science in Australia

    Weight of the world part 3: The climate scientists who hold out hope – Full Story podcast

    Climate scientists Lesley Hughes, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Graeme Pearman reveal how they feel now as they look back on their life’s work
  • ‘The antidote to despair is action’: Lesley Hughes on motivation through a climate crisis - video

    As one of Australia's most influential climate scientists, Lesley Hughes says worrying about the planet's grim trajectory won't lead to action
  • Lesley Hughes sitting in a wooded area

    ‘Hope has to be a strategy’: the scientist who refused to let the climate warmongers win

    As one of Australia’s most influential voices on climate, Lesley Hughes has thought deeply about how to talk about the crisis and says hope has a key role to play
  • Weight of the world part 2

    Weight of the world part 2: the climate scientists who copped it – Full Story podcast

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    The climate science is in. So why are the climate scientists down and out?

  • Weight of the world part 1

    Weight of the world part 1: the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming – Full Story podcast

  • Dr Graeme Pearman at his home in Bangholme, Victoria.

    ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm

  • As a young scientist Graeme Pearman travelled the world with flasks of air to prove CO2 levels were rising. Almost 50 years later he asks himself: 'Where did I go wrong?'

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    'Frustrating as hell': Graeme Pearman’s climate research should have warned the world - video

  • Graham Readfearn

    If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them

    Graham Readfearn
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