CSIRO is today expected to announce up to 350 people will lose their jobs – just days after the Australian government boosted funding to the national science agency by A$387 million. Our scientific colleagues have told us roughly a third of CSIRO’s climate modellers are expected to lose their jobs – five out of 15 scientists. These cuts come on the back of decades of slow but steady reductions in funding in the same area. This would threaten Australia’s ability to do its own climate modelling at