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RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Macquarie Island has experienced a marked shift in its climate since 1970, with increasing precipitation, accompanied by a steady increase in mean wind speed associated with increased cyclonic activity. These trends are consistent with an increase in the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) index, albeit with a shift to an anomalous atmospheric trough over the western Pacific Ocean. However, our understanding of the
twentieth-century climate across the entire sub-Arnarctic is limited by very sparse data and the relatively poor quality of global re-analyses across the Southern Hemisphere. Chapter 10 of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth Assessment Report (AR4) provides an assessment of global atmospheric trends out to the end of the twenty-first century and provides some clues as to the regional trends expected across the sub-Antarctic. This paper provides a synopsis of the changes experienced at Macquarie Island, and a look to future trends, and the need for increased atmospheric research in the mid- to high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.
Royal Society of Tasmania, RST, Van Diemens Land, natural history, science, ecology, taxonomy, botany, zoology, geology, geography, papers & proceedings, Australia, UTAS Library
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The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
