The joke is on anyone who believes we are tracking a SSP1-2.6 future, as the American think tanker suggests we are should have used. That said, clowns like jokes 🤡 (Like SSP5-8.5. it is considered implausible.) rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-close-lo...

“To suggest it is a ‘con job’ is flying in the face both of what we can observe, and of the physics.” Eric Wolff, Chair of the Royal Society’s Biodiversity, Environment and Climate Committee 3/3

A sober commentary on the climate challenge ahead from @science.org.au www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Good opportunity for #aus #antarctic scientists to join @scar-antarctic.bsky.social science groups. @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @antarctic.bsky.social @amosupdates.bsky.social

Some are saying we shouldn’t commit to net zero “at any price”. Fair enough then, what is the price? The NCRA sets out some fairly serious costs for adaptation and is clear that these are less than the costs of inaction. It also is frank in its view that it is likely UNDER-estimating the costs.

Predicable attempts today from the usual media to downplay the concerns raised by the National Climate Risk Assessment and mislead. This includes the false trope that China, India and the US aren’t aiming for net zero, so why Australia? Here’s why: /1

🌊 “The fact that 1.5 million Australians may be impacted by rising seas and coastal hazards by 2050 is shocking, even for this sea level scientist.” — Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @utas.edu.au ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...

Thanks Matt - it is almost impossible to overemphasise how critical Antarctic and Southern Ocean changes will be for the planet, and our nation. This is a start, within a broad national evaluation. It’s a privilege to play a role in defining the challenges that will shape policy.

Our article on the things that keep climate risk folks awake at night from Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment. May explain my insomnia. ….with @tasvo.bsky.social & Prof. Lucas Walsh @theconversation.com theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

"Is climate action a net cost or benefit? To date, the most detailed analysis in both Australia and the United Kingdom give the same answer: when the escalating damage done by climate change is accounted for, climate action has vastly more benefit than cost." theconversation.com/rapid-climat...

“The Trump administration is going to war with established climate science. Mass firings, regulatory rollbacks, program closures, & funding cuts … have compromised …high-quality information that policymakers & business leaders can use to guide their decisions...” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A sobering prospect - dark forces, prepared to drive climate disaster just to keep the world hooked on carbon. Support for renewable projects must be strong and determined!

This picture shows two complete AAD deep drill sondes (electronics assembly, motor and transmission) ready to be sealed inside pressure housings to drive deep drilling at Dome C North this summer. Photo: Derryn Harvie

Preparations are in full swing for the coming season’s fieldwork. This will see the start of drilling with the large drill built by AAD to core to around 3 km depth.

📢The 4th #IPICS Open Science Conference will be in Banff, Canada, from 11–16 Oct '26. If you plan to attend, you can help the organizers in their planning by filling out a quick RSVP survey: www.ipics2026.org/rsvp #icecorescience @tasvo.bsky.social @climatenerilie.bsky.social

Congrats to Australia’s Prof. Todd Lane and Dr Peter May for being elected as Fellows of the American Meteorological Society. Plus of course a whole bunch of amazing others. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Some snippets from my interview on US cuts and impacts on forecasting weather and climate extremes at 21:10 mark of this episode of ABC Australia Wide From 21:10 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

My piece today johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

This is is a story that is unlikely to go away - at least the impacts described won’t.

Interesting, and a bit encouraging, although what it means for a future “USA” in the world is not clear.

Wonderful interview with colleague @profmattengland.bsky.social talking about the science cuts in the US that will result in harm to us all www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

“A lot of nations are sort of going backwards just at a time when we really need to advance our understanding of Antarctica.” - @deformedearth.bsky.social on Antarctic research publication trends, on the ABC’s 7:30 ⬇️ @utas.edu.au @antarctic.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Antarctica's sea level contribution: Meltwater from Antarctica may "put a lid" of freshwater on the Southern Ocean and thereby trap heat there leading to enhanced melting. New paper by Lambert, Le Bars, van der Linden, Jüling, and Drijfhout esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Explore the latest Copernicus OBSERVER article featuring a decade of milestones at #CopernicusClimate and #CopernicusAtmosphere at #ECMWF. See how our data and insights have advanced evidence-based policy, public health and socioeconomic well-being across Europe. Read more: bit.ly/4lhNc4F#CopernicusClimate

And, a massive inexpressible thanks to our systems and the www.aec.gov.au, as we watch, astounded, at what can happen when democracies get this wrong.

Great interview with Dr Sue Barrell AO FTSE on the impacts of US cuts on weather and climate modelling and research. Plus great discussion of her career and importance of women in STEM towards the end. ABC Radio Conversation Hour From 43min: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Eighty leading scientists map out the near-future of joint research between Japan and Australia in #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo. VIDEO ▶️ youtu.be/tcLcQEv1rQw @anthonypress.bsky.social @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social

Civilization, visualized Positively mesmerizing: www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2...

What will happen to Antarctic research with the US pulling back? With all the rapid change it could have us heading backwards. So, someone needs to fill the void but we're seeing other Western nations busy with infrastructure not science. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The sharpie is out as facts are buried with revisionist zeal. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Great article by Tyne Logan on the potential impacts of US cuts in weather and climate observations, research and modelling. But planning ahead will reduce the impacts. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

An important perspective for national climate and weather security.

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

European governments are breaking their dependence on scientific data the United States used to make freely available, ramping up their data collection systems to monitor climate change & weather extremes. Now we’re just giving away our leadership positions. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Eighty world-leading scientists map out the near-future of joint research between Japan and Australia in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. aappartnership.org.au/more-than-th... @utas.edu.au @anthonypress.bsky.social @imas-utas.bsky.social @csiro.bsky.social

We welcome the Australian Academy of Science’s position statement on Australia’s scientific leadership in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It calls for urgent, ambitious, and strategic action backed by whole-of-government support and sustainable funding. 🔗Read statement: buff.ly/orUA3QO

Our article on the impacts US cuts to NOAA/NASA/NSF could have on Australian and global weather and climate and oceans monitoring and forecasting - and the steps Australia needs to protect itself. Written with a significant group of amazing co-authors theconversation.com/as-us-climat...

Here, led by @windjunky.bsky.social, we look at the risk to weather forecasts and climate prediction arising from US cuts, and what Australia needs to do. theconversation.com/as-us-climat...

Read this from @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @msleinen.bsky.social, and John Richardson, retired Navy admiral, whose son was my student, about how investing in ocean science is not just about curiosity, but about ensuring our future readiness, resilience, and national security. 🌊

Worse than suppression: trying to wreck concerted action and in the process increasing climate change harm to humanity. The actions of a pariah state that needs to be excised and isolated.

Interesting reading...'Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago' doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#politas hypothetical: No majority for Lib/Lab and neither can get a compliant enough (non-green) X-bench agreement. Peter G|David O’B|Krisitie J offer to lead a cross-party cabinet, forcing a major to agree or be the pariah that sends state back to the polls (surely a death wish). Possible?

Morning all. Don’t eat farmed salmon. tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/senior-...

RealClimate: Ocean circulation going South? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

An exciting new study from our group, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, sheds light on the ancient pre-glacial landscape beneath East Antarctica and how an extensive network of fluvial surfaces has modulated subsequent ice sheet response to climate. Read more here! 👇❄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the reasons that we decided to limit the National Climate Risk Assessment modelling to +3°C and have a seperate section on tipping points is because models may not be that realistic once abrupt and cascading changes occur at these higher warming levels.

I think this is extremely unlikely. The shifts in surface salinity are well within the range that could be explained by shifts in rainfall/sea ice and ice sheet meltwater (not that we have a quantitative explanation yet!). Jumping to 'the SMOC has reversed!' is huge leap.