Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick (SPK): I don't think so, not yet. Do your children understand what you do for work? Earlier, he cut his teeth on the physical sciences with a PhD in climate projections and climate impacts.
His expertise is in translating climate science for schools, businesses and governments. She has two teenage children, 14 and 16.ĭr Ian Macadam is a member of UNSW’s CCRC and leads the Knowledge Brokerage Team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Meissner’s focus is on large scale climate feedbacks and tipping points. Professor Katrin Meissner is a climate change expert with UNSW Science and also the director of the university’s Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC). She has two children under five with a third on the way. So how do the experts have this conversation with their own children?ĭr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is a climate scientist at UNSW Canberra with expertise in weather extremes, notably heatwaves and how they have changed over time. The science underpinning our understanding of this climate emergency is complex, and may seem a challenge at times for a layperson to explain to other adults, let alone kids. But the fact that more than four fifths of Australians believe that climate change will result in more droughts and flooding means this conversation will be dinner table banter for a long time yet, as ordinary parents try to navigate the path between hope and abject despair about the existential challenges facing humanity.
It’s important that we clean up after ourselves, we teach our kids, and not leave a place in a worse mess than how we found it.īut how do we explain the mess we’ve created on Planet Earth that future generations will be left to deal with?
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