The bureau was pelted with record rainfall, hundreds of disasters, triple the average number of flood warnings, and then it dropped $220,000 on a name change. | Email Nick O'Malley and Nigelgladstone
in the midst of floods was catastrophic to the organisation’s reputation. It was condemned by commentators, criticised by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and lampooned on social media.
“My strong view, and the view shared by the World Meteorological Organisation and other prominent agencies, is that climate change is a really crucial matter and it’s perfectly appropriate for our national meteorological services to play a prominent role in addressing it. “The quality of our flood forecasts, measured through peak accuracy and forecast lead-time, have overall improved and are within 10 per cent of targets [agreed with state and territory agencies],” a bureau spokeswoman said.for the NSW coast and Sydney regions in September was among the worst results for the region last year.
Almost one in three people surveyed also disagreed that their workgroup had the “tools and resources needed to perform well”. Professor David Karoly, a veteran climate scientist who worked closely with bureau staff while at the CSIRO Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub, says the politicisation of the climate change debate is still being felt inside the bureau.
The bureau is studying connections between climate change and extreme rainfall, extreme fire and extreme heatwaves, and its reports and studies predict further increases in extreme events, he says: “But for reasons that I don’t fully understand the Bureau of Meteorology management has wanted those risks to not be publicly described by bureau scientists.”
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