Caitlin Fitzsimmons

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Environment reporter June 23, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Around the turn of this century, when global warming was still mostly a future threat rather than a present grim reality, it was common for people to debate whether it was real. I recall reading something that accurately predicted the deniers’ playbook in a climate change version of the stages of grief. First they would deny it was happening.

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For decades Australia has led the world in rooftop solar. Government incentives to encourage uptake have been so successful that panels now adorn the roofs of more than 4 million homes around the country. Then came the push to install household batteries to save more of the solar power generated by day for use in the evening.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the June 21 edition of Good Weekend.See all 15 stories. Kathy Joel* remembers the loud boom and the blaze of orange light. She remembers the giant fireball hanging in the sky like a second sun. She remembers sobbing in her parents’ arms, overcome with fear and horror. At five years old, she was inconsolable.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons |Nick O'Malley

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley June 18, 2025 — 12.31pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Insurance claims for wild weather in the first five months of this year have already surpassed 2024 for at least one major insurer, as the community tallies the cost of Cyclone Alfred and the NSW floods.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you believe the weather bureau, Australia is expecting a warm, wet winter. If you believe your own senses when you step outside your front door, it is distinctly chilly. Who is right? Actually, the two things are not contradictory. A warm winter can still feel cold because it is relative. If it is 8 degrees outside, most of us will perceive it to be cold.