Sci. Prof. Ocean & Climate Dynamics @UNSW | Fellow @Science_Academy | @unswcmsi @unswscience | @unisforclimate | Deputy Director @AntarcticSciAus 🌏🌊🌎🧊🌍🌤
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Out today in Nature, our new paper on the drivers of the extreme summertime heating of the North Atlantic during 2023. Temperatures across much of the basin warmed to record high levels in the space of just a few months. The impacts on climate and ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found. 👇👇👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
ALT This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.
Climate science in peril just when we need it most. My OpEd piece with Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute. thenewdaily.com.au/life/scie…
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The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more theconversation.com/the-worl… via @ConversationEDU
The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more theconversation.com/the-worl… via @ConversationEDU
A deep dive into the AMOC and the Antarctic MOC, how they work, how they’re changing, and links to recent melting around Antarctica smh.com.au/environment/clima…
Critical Atlantic current closer to collapse abc.net.au/listen/programs/t… via @ABCaustralia
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Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊
The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present #AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨.
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Follow-up interview on 3AW today about the latest El Niño forecasts 3aw.com.au/australia-braces-…
Super El Nino: Rare weather event could bring 'globally catastrophic' extreme weather and spike global temperatures smh.com.au/environment/clima…
Super El Nino: Rare weather event could bring 'globally catastrophic' extreme weather and spike global temperatures smh.com.au/environment/clima…
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📢 One week left! Deadline of abstract submission: March 8, 2026!
🌎 The MEC 2026 and the 6th CLIVAR CDP Annual Workshop will be held jointly during April 13-16 in 2026, under the theme “Abrupt Changes and Tipping Points.”
Check more details here:
📎 clivar.org/events/joint-conf…
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Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:
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The grid’s going green! And look how much has changed in only 10 years.
October saw renewables supply a record 51% of Australia’s main energy grid 😎
We’re heading in the right direction, but we’ve still got to step up the pace to cut pollution and to cut costs.
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Australia’s medical and scientific research sectors save lives and are vital to our economy. The government has to step up and lean in to their potential.
It’s small-minded and short-sighted to force them to wither on the vine, when we have money put aside for this purpose in the Future Fund.
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大変名誉なことに、招待講演者にしていただきました。
📢 Save the Dates!
Joint Conference:"Abrupt changes and tipping points" by 6th CLIVAR CDP annual workshop & MEC 2026
📆 Dates: April 13-16, 2026
📍 Location: Guangzhou, China
More details: clivar.org/events/joint-conf…
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The more than 1000 job losses at CSIRO reflect a long pattern of underfunding by govt, who have treated science as optional.
We need research to build resilience and future industries.
Reversing the slide in national research investment has to start now.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Sign the petition to save our CSIRO: davidpocock.com.au/save_our_…
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🌊 What is the Meridional Overturning Circulation
and why is it important?
The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
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🧊 New research reveals an overlooked Antarctic process could skew sea level rise projections.
☀️ A team led by Dr Fabio Boeira Dias (ACEAS/UNSW) found East Antarctic ice shelves melt in summer bursts as sea ice retreats and warm water flows underneath.
antarctic.org.au/overlooked-…
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The DOE scam climate report tries to deny the obvious observed fact that sea-level rise has been accelerating.
A statistician explains in his blog:
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/09…
It’s a long predicted physics effect of a warming planet: continental ice melts faster the warmer it gets.
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It beggars belief that our useless media is ignoring graphs such as this from the University of Reading and behaving like everything is OK.
From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – with global ramifications theconversation.com/from-sea… via @ConversationEDU
Part 2 of my interview with Robyn Williams on the ABC Science Show, where we discuss funding cuts to US climate science, the threats of sea-level rise, and whether we're already too late to deal with climate change. abc.net.au/listen/programs/s… via @ABCaustralia
