He is a world-leading climate scientist, but even his impressive bona fides did not stop John Church from getting a dreaded phone call while at sea Thursday.
According to Fairfax Media, the expert on climate change-related sea level rise was told he could be made “potentially redundant” from the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s peak science body, while on a research voyage somewhere between Antarctica and New Zealand.
“I was OK during the call but it is certainly not a nice feeling to have what you have worked for — for so many years — thrown on the scrapheap,” he told the publication. Read more…
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