Earth's Black Box: 32ft steel monolith will be built in Tasmania this YEAR and filled with hard drives documenting our climate change actions as an 'unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise of the planet'

If humanity is obliterated by climate change, how will we even know it's happened? That's the question being answered by Australian scientists, who are building Earth's Black Box – a 32-foot-long steel monolith that captures data about our planet. It'll be filled with hard drives that constantly document climate change, giving an'unbiased account of events' that lead to Earth's demise. In the event of a climate apocalypse, it will provide a document of how humanity failed to avoid the disaster – as long as there's someone or something around to access it. Artist impressions suggest it will have a similar aura to the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.