David Hutchinson

Nine of the Top 10 countries in solar PV per capita are in Europe
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70

It's a universal truth.

Gee Matt you're sounding a little rambly there... 😜

Absolutely robbed. Apparently headbutting is cool and normal if you're Reece Walsh.

On the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I am posting the cartoon which was my response to the chest-beating nationalistic rhetoric immediately used by George W Bush to stir up support for a military response. The editor at the time would not publish it.

Excellent use of Baywatch material here by Matt Osman. #ICP15

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

I mean, you can't expect these programs to achieve miracles.

Absolutely - this was my first reaction too, given the awful things happening in for profit childcare and the fact that this is *meant to be universal, hence public*

No but I am ok with that!

Got myself a gift for a blood donation milestone 🩸

(real, one-shot :p )

Should be more of this!

He definitely seems like a halfwit

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

(🎥 Doni Nikz)

@chriswallace.bsky.social posted this excellent piece on the dead bird place

📣 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 ❄️🇦🇶

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Nikolai Ivanovic Lobachevsky was his name, oi!

Antarctic Dense Water Formation Sensitivity to Ocean Surface Cell Thickness The ability of ocean models with depth coordinates to form Antarctic Dense Shelf Water (DSW) depends on their surface vertical resolution Deeper surface cells shift the direction of surface Ekman...

We figured out a cheap-ish way to make ocean models create Dense Shelf Waters (DSW) on the surface of the Antarctic continental shelf! How?
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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More info in the thread

new water isotope preprint! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

We used the MAGIC of machine learning (ok, random forests) to predict monthly precipitation stable isotopes over the Australian continent, at monthly resolution from 1962-2023.

Details at the paper; pretty animation below

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.

Open access paper in JAMES:

doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.

The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

It's like nobody paid any attention to the debacle of the Higgins mistrial, and are determined to repeat the same own goals they kicked last time.

Should crown witnesses from a murder trial be giving interviews discussing when they personally decided the accused was guilty, when there remains the possibility of a successful appeal and retrial? We're thinking no, probably not.

The climate wild cards still missing from our models Climate models have been remarkably effective at projecting global warming trends, but they still fail to fully capture some crucial processes that could dramatically accelerate climate change, accord...

Key climate wild cards like tipping points and abrupt shifts are still missing from many models. A new piece by CCRC’s @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & Steven Sherwood explains why accounting for these uncertainties is essential.

Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

This morning's Sydney Morning Herald is a master class in irresponsible reporting of a murder trial that is not concluded. Icing on the cake is the op-ed by a psychologist musing on the possibility that the defendant is a narcissist.

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

Great piece led by Alex Sen Gupta on the possible closure of Mauna Loa. With many contributions from people at the @ccrc.bsky.social
theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...

Trump cuts satellite data on Antarctic sea ice just as it’s needed most Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low sea ice in the Antarctic summer, but they will lose access to their main d...

‘The Trump administration is hobbling Australian scientists studying dwindling sea ice in Antarctica with a sudden decision to shut down civilian access to key satellite data, as research reveals the alarming effects of “extraordinarily low” sea ice.’

#climatecrisis

www.smh.com.au/environment/...

There are lots of good reasons to use idealized modelling, e.g. to test fundamental theories (which we do) and to gauge what might happen in a different geography (which has happened in the past, e.g. the Pacific has been getting narrower).