Hello Australia!! - A stunner at CSIRO as Climate Change scientists are told they're getting the axe - Will Julian Assange be arrested before the end of the week's end? - The TPP is signed and the battle to stop it or accept it is on - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Top climate scientists are condemning the Turnbull government for plans to take a budgetary chainsaw to the CSIRO's Climate Change division.  Several reports indicate that cuts will be made within the Oceans and Atmosphere and Land and Water divisions and up to 350 positions in the organization will be impacted, by transfers or by redundancies.  Former Australian Chief Scientist Penny Sackett, now of Australian National University, says that gathering and modeling climate change data is more important than ever:  "The big question now, which underlies all climate adaptation work, is 'How is the climate changing?'" she says.  "How can it be that our largest national research organization chooses not to engage, indeed not to lead, the effort in finding the answer to that question?" 

Dr. Paul Durack of the US' Lawrence Livermore National Labs outside San Francisco predicts a brain drain:  "This new round of proposed cuts makes a bad situation so much worse, and from the information currently being reported may lead to a key and proud Australian research capacity at CSIRO leaving Australian shores for good."

Dr. Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick of the University of New South Wales says, "The latest round of job cuts from CSIRO is nothing short of appalling. The climate research work conducted by CSIRO has been pioneering and of global standard." 

Academy Academy of Science President Professor Andrew Holmes said there was now serious concern about Australia's future capacity to conduct climate and environmental science, and our ability to contribute to the global monitoring of climate change.

Wow. Moving along:

Police are searching for a critically endangered Radiated Tortoise stolen from the Perth Zoo.  Officials fear it was the work of wildlife traffickers, because of the unique, star-shaped patterns on the animal's shell.  But even if the thieves don't have the darkest of motives, the Tortoise is in trouble because of its particular needs:  "This species have a specialized diet and like all tortoises it needs help thermo-regulating which is especially important at the moment as we are experiencing cooler mornings," said Perth Zoo director of life sciences Maria Finnigan.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by London Metro Police if the United Nations on Friday decides that does not rule that he is being illegally detained.  Julian has been holed-up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for three and a half years in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex charges he and his supporters say are trumped up and intended to intimidate him into stopping his whistle-blowing activities.  However, if the UN working group on arbitrary detention finds in his favor, "I expect the immediate return of my passport and the termination of further attempts to arrest me."  Either way, it looks like something big might happen at noon, Friday in London.

That North Korean missile launch may be coming up sooner rather than later.  Monitors detected increased activity at the Sohae missile-launching site in Dongchang-ri, on the country's eastern shore.  Pyongyang announced a satellite launch earlier this week.  That was immediately met with condemnation from its neighbors and the United States, which maintain the launch would be an "egregious violation" of a UN ban on missile launches by North Korea.

Australian trade minister Andrew Robb was the first the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal at the signing ceremony in Auckland.  The dozen nations involved in this awful, terrible trade deal make up 40 percent of the world economy:  The US, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru.  These countries now have two years to ratify or reject it.  Opponents fear it will sap jobs from the developed countries like Oz and the US to smaller, developing countries with smaller labor costs.