If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them | Graham Readfearn

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This year I’ve had scientists break down in tears during interviews after seeing the devastation that record ocean temperatures had wreaked on coral reefs in the Americas.

Scientists have openly expressed fear to me that they “might have missed something” – that global heating is taking hold of the continent decades earlier than they thought possible.

Today Guardian Australia is launching a podcast, video and article series – Weight of the world – featuring in-depth and personal interviews with three pioneering Australian climate change scientists: Graeme Pearman, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Lesley Hughes.

Pearman led climate change research at the CSIRO for 30 years and started working on the issue in 1971 when he was measuring how much CO2 there was in the air above a wheat field in regional Victoria.

Hoegh-Guldberg’s pioneering research in the 1990s revealed the threat global heating poses to coral reefs, the ocean’s richest ecosystems and home to a third of all marine species.

They are realistic about where we’re heading, but these veteran scientists have had a long time to work out how to keep going purposefully in life when the prognosis for our only home can feel so dire.

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