"So my name's Suzie. I'm a physicist... an accelerator physicist, and I work at the University of Oxford. I run a research group there in... high intensity s... I... spend half my time at Harwell campus... I'm also a member of the , not the other ISIS, just to be clear."

"What I'm going to talk about today is the fascinating world, and I really think it's wonderful, of particle accelerators."

"Has anyone heard of a particle accelerator other than the Large Hadron Collider? ...We actually have two at Harwell... If you were pushed, could you give a back of the envelope explanation of how a particle accelerator works?"

"Most people now, when I say particle accelerator, think of... the bohemoth. This is the . It is almost 27 km in circumference, which is why the tunnel looks almost straight. It's about 100 meters underground, over the border between France and Switzerland. ...Inside these magnets here, these big blue long ones it's one of the coldest places in the universe at 1.9°K above . ...[I]t accelerates two beams of s, from inside the atom, in opposite directions at 99.99999% (that's the exact number) of the speed of light and smashes them into each other... [I]t is what I like to call an impressive shiny huge piece of kit that's bigger than everyone else's!"

"This... is only one in the world... there are actually about 35,000 of them..."

"As climate scientists, we are disturbingly aware of the threats to society not only here in Australia, but all over the world."

"Art has always been a powerful portal to understanding how we feel about our world. Let’s hope it helps safeguard our climatic future."

"There was a shift in my perception of myself from being heterosexual to bisexual but certainly the biggest shift was just how society treated you."

"We had many years of being outward to the world, of being the perfect normal couple and then suddenly we had the experience of what it's like to be in a same-sex relationship."

"“Those forests are now effectively gone because of climate change. It makes me sad when I think my kids won’t have that same experience and get to see those environments the way I did.”"

"“I’ve come from being interested in understanding the fundamentals of ecology to thinking more about how humans interact with ecosystems and how we can better connect knowledge to decision making,”"

"“We have this traditional model where scientists go off and do their work, write a paper and publish it in a journal and hope that somebody who needs it picks it up and is able to make some kind of decision based on the information. But it doesn’t work anymore because so many of the problems we have now are very urgent, and we need more efficient ways to connect science to policy.”"

"“The national finalists are an extraordinary group of people whose impact ranges from medical and scientific endeavours to volunteering, human rights advocacy, education, sustainability action and more,”"

"Human activities are the highest contributors to climate change."

"The magnitude and rate of climate change together with associated risks, depends strongly on the near-term mitigation and adaptation actions."

"“These awards reflect the times, and nowadays hopefully recognise how important science has been, and continues to be, not only in understanding what’s changing but also how we can respond to those changes,”"

"“The magical experience of diving in a kelp forest is like flying through a jungle surrounded by an amazing diversity of life,”"

"Any concerns over costs, though, should be compared to cost of doing nothing."

"There are several so-called negative emissions technologies that could remove carbon dioxide from the air, including those aimed at removing CO2 by enhancing natural forest and wetland uptake, using bio-energy in power production and scrubbing CO2 efficiently from air."

"To make negative emission technologies viable, industry needs physical and measurable proof of those which will be most effective and then the means to implement them at full scale. That means large government and private investments in research and development for these technologies."

"Climate change is a risk management issue and putting in place good measures to mitigate it is a prudent course of action and one which has shown to be very worthwhile in the past"

"Also, if government policies change, how will that affect your operations and what you do?"

"There have been a lot of changes in climate policy over the past decade or so. A lot of questions are not clearly resolved and that creates challenges"

"If you are trying to get a handle on the costs of uncertainty, if that cost was fully passed on to households, the average household bill would have been $46–$68 a quarter higher than it otherwise would have been. In our report, we said policy uncertainty was a significant driver of that."

"Improving our understanding of leaf oyster reefs requires more comprehensive mapping of the remaining populations and gaining a better understanding of their life cycle."

"Our concern extends beyond the survival and protection of the single species, to the entire ecosystem the leaf oysters underpin."

"The past climate records that I develop come from corals, caves and ice cores, and I combine these with climate model data to study climate changes."

"Every tonne of carbon dioxide that we emit adds to global warming. And every fraction of a degree of further warming will cause climate impacts to become more frequent and more intense."

"I implore you and the Labor Party to govern like every decision, and every year, matters. Because it really, really does."

"Climate models are one of many tools scientists use to understand how the climate changed in the past and what it will do in future."

"Before industrial times, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere were 280 parts per million. So a doubling of CO₂ will occur at 560 parts per million."

"So should we be using climate models? We are climate scientists from Australia’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and we believe the answer is a firm yes."

""Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide [and other greenhouse gases. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.'"

"When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that mean? What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what do they do?"

"Climate change has already altered the extreme weather we experience in Australia and will continue to do so over the coming years."

"We have already committed the planet to a certain amount of warming due to past carbon emissions. But efforts to reduce emissions now and over the next few decades will critically affect the degree of future warming."

"A carbon budget is like a household budget. You only have so much money to spend. How you choose to spend and invest your money will determine the available budget for your retirement and the legacy you provide for future generations."

"If we want a greater chance than 66% of limiting warming to two degrees, we would need to emit even less carbon dioxide. Conversely, if we accepted a lower probability of limiting the warming to two degrees, the budget would be higher."

"Climate change is already impacting every inhabited part of our planet."

"I am a climate scientist who has spent the last two decades studying how our climate is changing and sharing our increasingly urgent and frightening findings with the world."

"My research focuses on how the Earth’s climate has behaved over the last millennium, and what that tells us about the climate changes we are seeing now."

"Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. They’re an exceptional record of past climate."

"I spend every day looking at the data that tells us each of those climate extremes will keep getting worse."