Climate science to be gutted as CSIRO swings jobs axe

By Peter Hannam
Updated February 5 2016 - 10:13pm, first published 9:46pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a visit to CSIRO last December. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a visit to CSIRO last December. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Fears of job cuts in CSIRO's key climate research division have been realised. Photo: CSIRO
Fears of job cuts in CSIRO's key climate research division have been realised. Photo: CSIRO
Understanding how bushfires and other perils will change with global warming will be undermined by the cuts, scientists say. Photo: NASA
Understanding how bushfires and other perils will change with global warming will be undermined by the cuts, scientists say. Photo: NASA

Fears that some of Australia's most important climate research institutions will be gutted under a Turnbull government have been realised with deep job cuts for scientists.

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