00:02There's been a lot on the agenda this week at the conference.
00:05Of course, one of the big stories of this year has not just been about what's happening in the weather,
00:10but the Bureau's website bungle, I think it's safe to call it that now.
00:15Just last week, it was revealed that up to 400,000 people are still using the old website.
00:23Interestingly, when I had a chat to the new director Stuart Minchin,
00:26he said it seems that there are certain parts of Australia that are using the old website more than others,
00:32including South East Queensland.
00:34The community there is very reliant on the radar with storms coming across,
00:39and so they have a preference for the old view of the radar, and we've noted that,
00:45and we're working, as I said, on improving the new radar so that it gives people what they need.
00:53Now, I'm not sure how they'll feel about me saying this,
00:55but I will say there is some climate scientists at this conference who have admitted to me
00:58that they're also still using the old bomb website as well, so not just South East Queensland.
01:03Stuart Minchin has said, though, that there is a list that they're working through fixing,
01:08radar included, as well as other things that have been brought to their attention,
01:11like being able to select your location if you're outside of a town,
01:15which is something that's been raised by farmers too.
01:18Now, interestingly, outside the website, Stuart Minchin also mentioned the responsibility of the Bureau of Meteorology,
01:27not just in making accurate forecasts, but being able to communicate those forecasts well to the public,
01:34and some of the challenges that they have in setting up expectations about what will come.
01:40We're looking at all the potential probabilities that may put in play,
01:45and we're giving our best guess based on how those models have been performing as to what the forecast is
01:50going to be,
01:50but we're never going to get it 100% right.
01:53Now, at this conference, the website hasn't really been the big topic of conversation.
01:57It's actually been more about the direction of climate science in Australia,
02:01and the concern that for all the talk there is about climate change and how much of a threat it
02:08is to Australia,
02:09will be a threat going into the future, and also how much communities are living through it already
02:15in our extreme weather and in our insurance.
02:19The science needed to help make decisions around that just isn't being supported in the same way.
02:25So this is both on a global scale.
02:27There has been kind of an undercurrent of concern about what's going on in the US
02:32with a lot of threatened cuts to climate science there,
02:35and some major agencies which Australia relies on, but also at home.
02:40I mean, CSIRO has cuts on the table.
02:43They are a big player when it comes to climate science and modelling,
02:46and there's also some critical infrastructure, computing infrastructure that we have here in Australia,
02:52which scientists are frustrated has been allowed to age and effectively fall behind the rest of the world.
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