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Melissa Hart is a climate scientist and associate director of training and leadership in the ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Negin Nazarian is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the Climate Resilient Cities lab in the School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Hello from the Southern Hemisphere, where the days are getting longer and temperatures are rising. Yet, despite the clear signs of spring here, we find ourselves inundated with invitations to events that speak of fall or autumn, or newsletters announcing workshops that will run this coming winter. It leaves us wondering: are we invited at all into this season different from our own?
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