Australia is getting a new climate research center. Here's why scientists are unhappy
 

Australia is getting a new climate research center. Here's why scientists are unhappy about it
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In Australia, a bold, and potentially damaging experiment is playing out to see what happens when a former venture capitalist with ** scientific experience takes over a top science research agency.*

After facing an intense domestic and international backlash, the Australian government is scaling back a plan to make deep cuts to the*Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),*the country’s premiere science research organization, and instead save a sliver of its climate research capabilities.*

Those cuts, critics have argued, would have decimated its world class climate science research units. Read more...


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