Felicity McCormack

Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating conseque...

The National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia from climate change. Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying our future.

Read more ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/devasta...

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North West Shelf final approval a climate, economic and energy security disaster Australia Institute analysis shows today's final approval of the 45-year expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

The final approval of the 45-year expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

It will undermine the nation's energy security, drive up energy prices & is the greatest giveaway of Australian natural resources ever.

Media release

Melting glaciers on remote Australian island spark concern Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size over the past seven decades amid rising temperatures in the sub-Antarctic region, new research show...

Australia's only glaciers are shrinking fast.

Important work led by @levantielidze.bsky.social @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social

paper here: tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
news here:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

This keeps getting better and better

📣 Job opportunity 📣
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!

You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶

👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

This is gold 😂

a man and a woman are sitting in a vehicle with the man holding a steering wheel ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a vehicle with the man holding a steering wheel

Wherever I think about all we could have done to prevent where we are in the climate crisis I think about this steamroller scene..

⛰️ In a new study in @science.org, we project that 39% of the global glacier mass is committed to be lost irrespective of future warming.

However, a lot can still be saved - see title:
“Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7°C”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Esp northern hemisphere folks please share with your colleagues. It's really great down south and we don't get so many visitors! ❄️🇦🇶

• A/Prof Yoshihiro Nakayama (Dartmouth College; IAPSO co-chair)

• A/Prof Lu An (Tongji University; IACS co-chair)

New co-chairs appointed to the IAPSO / IACS Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI) sites.google.com/view/jcioi/h.... Yoshihiro Nakayama (Dartmouth College) is new IAPSO co-chair and Lu An (Tongji University) is new IACS co-chair. They replace Isabel Nias & @fsmccormack.bsky.social.

Kia ora tātou! Until the 15th of May, any donation you make to Doctors Without Borders will be tripled.

#egu25 If you're interested in near-future sea level and/or the Antarctic Ice Sheet stop by my poster with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and Yucheng Lin this afternoon.

Cover of book "Antarctica and the Earth System"

New book!! 📕

Antarctica is intimately connected to the rest of our planet, affecting climate, ecosystems, cultures and society. Our new book draws together international experts to explore this influence, and to understand what humans are doing to Antarctica (1/n)
www.routledge.com/Antarctica-a...

Australia is looking for someone to lead the Antarctic Division's Antarctic Climate program.

Australian residents only, sorry.

Closes May 12

dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

Fossil fuel companies ‘poisoned the well’ of public debate with climate disinformation. Here’s how Australia can break free The US has obstructed climate action for decades – largely due to damaging actions by the powerful fossil fuel industry. But Australia has a chance now to lead.

In this moment when science is under attack, Australia offers a model of how we can make progress even in the face of massive opposition.
theconversation.com/fossil-fuel-...

"This is happening at a much faster rate than ever documented in the past… we are much more likely to underestimate the impact of those changes on human society than to overestimate them."

The article opens with this quote from me; and I mean every word of it. Read more:

We've had a decade of drift in climate policy. We've had policies proposed and then abandoned. We've had science acknowledged and then ignored, and we've created a situation where more and more assets and more and more Australian lives are at risk from climate change than ever needed to be. I mean, to me, this is the single most irresponsible act that I've ever seen by governments." Dr Martin Parkinson Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2022

In meme form #AusPol #AusVotes
#ClimateAdaptation

So glad to see this is happening and all the very best! May you have gentle seas and good sciencing ❄️🇦🇶🌊

28 people have added their names already. If you'd like to join us in solidarity and to emphasise the importance of EDI in polar science, then let me know.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

Awesome work team! Looking forward to looking into the data ❄️

Congratulations Ailie - so heartily deserved!

@antarcticmoss.bsky.social might like this one!

It keeps growing to infinity and eventually you learn that you'll never get everything done and be ok with it 😂

Looks like the next week will be very warm across nearly the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet with widespread 5-15 C temperature anomalies. Multiple atmospheric rivers in West and East Antarctica will contribute to the heat. Definitely concerning as well are within the melt season

Wowowowww 😍

Deep learning for predicting rate-induced tipping - Nature Machine Intelligence Rate- and noise-induced transitions pose key tipping risks for ecosystems and climate subsystems, yet no predictive theory existed before. This study introduces deep learning as an effective predictio...

🆕Deep Learning to predict tipping in complex systems like ice sheets or ocean circulation under rapid #climatechange. The method issues early warnings, even amid noise, advancing the detection of critical transitions. New paper with PIKs Niklas Boers.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Group dinner to celebrate visiting scientist - the incredible Dr Tyler Pelle - made complete by a show of flying foxes 🦇 one of my very favourite things about #Melbourne

Come do a PhD with Channing Prend and myself! The project will use seal data and models to understand Antarctic Slope Current dynamics.

Based in Edinburgh, UK, but with opportunities for time in Australia also.

e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super... 🌊

Congratulations 🎉 so heartily deserved!