Sci. Prof. Ocean & Climate Dynamics @UNSW | Fellow @Science_Academy | @unswcmsi @unswscience | @unisforclimate | Deputy Director @AntarcticSciAus 🌏🌊🌎🧊🌍🌤
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4 Jun 2025
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.
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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…
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Critical Atlantic current closer to collapse abc.net.au/listen/programs/t… via @ABCaustralia
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Prof. Matt England retweeted
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…
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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…
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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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
Mar 2
📢 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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
Jan 2
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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
12 Dec 2025
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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
7 Dec 2025
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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
27 Nov 2025
大変名誉なことに、招待講演者にしていただきました。
27 Nov 2025
📢 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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
22 Nov 2025
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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
🌊 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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
🧊 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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Prof. Matt England retweeted
6 Sep 2025
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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7 Sep 2025
RT @MrMatthewTodd: It beggars belief that our useless media is ignoring graphs such as this from the University of Reading and behaving lik…
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21 Aug 2025
From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – with global ramifications theconversation.com/from-sea… via @ConversationEDU
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11 Aug 2025
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
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2 Aug 2025
This week I joined the wonderful Robyn Williams on the @ABCaustralia Science Show to discuss our recent North Atlantic Nature paper alongside a range of other topics — marine heat waves around Australia, polar vortex wobbles, the AMOC, and the deep cost of climate inaction. Part 2 will air next week.
abc.net.au/listen/programs/s…
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29 Jul 2025
Our piece in @ConversationEDU today:
As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk theconversation.com/as-us-cl…
And it's not just Australia that will lose out. Forecasting all around the world will be set back decades if these cuts go through.
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