Mandy Freund

As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.

A few years ago a climate science colleague of mine said "When it gets really bad, they will blame us for not telling them how bad it would be."

Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet These ‘warming stripes’, adopted around the world as a symbol of climate awareness, action and ambition, now include another dark red stripe for 2024.

The data is in.

2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.

More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number.

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

La Niña back this summer? Not likely – and unofficial declarations are jumping the gun Reports of a rare summer La Niña are premature. It is also foolish to look at such climate drivers in isolation. But seasonal forecasting is becoming more complicated as the planet warms.

La Niña declarations seem to pop up in the media every other week. @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social and I set the record straight.

theconversation.com/la-nina-back...

Open MS/PhD & postdoctoral researcher positions:

I bet this page was among the most accessed bom sites by people working in agriculture

From this week, the Bureau of Meteorology stopped publishing their "climate drivers" page, although values for the Nino 3.4 region used for monitoring are still available. Chances of a standard La Nina continue to fade...

Changes in Blue/Green Water Partitioning Under Severe Drought We used an ecohydrologic model to simulate a Victorian Mountain Ash catchment before, during and after the Millennium Drought Catchment-wide transpiration during the drought was maintained at pre...

Our paper won a WRR Editor’s Choice award :)

We modelled shifts in spatial patterns of transpiration contributing to unexpectedly high ET during drought. Then climate warming and drought legacy effects led to non-recovery of streamflow postdrought.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Is it just me feeling concerned about ENSO forecast capacities to disappear?

Australian Bureau of Meteorology getting out of the ENSO prediction business? www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso...

This, along with the dismantling of the IRI, not great times for ENSO prediction. Stay strong NOAA/CPC NMME etc!

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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

Details : Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography and Climate Variability : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Exciting Postdoc Opportunity! 🌟🌊🌏

Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.

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Submission deadline for AMOS 2026 in Cairns is approaching fast! Find a session for your science, and if it includes insights into past climate, consider submitting to our session: urgent insights for an uncertain future: climate change and variability in palaeo-records
amos2025.org.au/abstracts/

First time in forever working in a Cafe 🎉 first teaching semester done, first time seeing the #bluesky and excited to get onto some science

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

I'm super excited to share @carbonbrief.org's new and improved attribution map! Use the map to explore 600+ extreme weather attribution studies from all around the world: buff.ly/3URzsmI

And check out my in-depth Q&A on attribution for all you need to know about this evolving field: buff.ly/4hRt4Gc

Changes in global temperature (1850-2023)

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