Will Hobbs

Wait, doesn’t this guy live in a palace and advocate for the economic burden to women of unrestrained birth rates…?

What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change It can be hard to grasp the changes climate change is bringing. To see it in your own life, look at the shifting seasons.

Spring is arriving here in Tasmania, which means it's time to think about planting tomatoes - we can learn a surprising amount about climate change just by looking at the seasons.
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Thankfully nowadays we no longer have unaccountable demagogues lying, stealing and starting wars…. (Oh yeah, and trawling through a line of trophy wives)

Thanks for the great interest in this; unfortunately the venue has cancelled at the last minute! Enjoy your lunchtime without sea ice… @antarctic.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social

Shameless self-promotion here, but for anyone in Hobart tomorrow looking for a warm dry place to spend their lunch hour, I’m giving a (free!) public talk on Antarctic sea ice loss at TMAG. @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social @antarctic.bsky.social

Last week the Australian government delivered an overwhelming National Climate Risk Assessment, and underwhelming carbon targets. Thankfully Dr Max Rintoul has some ideas on getting around that... @beeraquatic.bsky.social , 6:30pm Thursday 25th September, at Hobart brewing Coy.
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'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

I don’t love what’s happening in a lot of Australia’s universities, but given more than a decade of federal government under-funding research and higher education, it’s a bit rich for senate to quite so critical. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“One person- one vote” is the preserve of constitutional democracies, and USA is not that. Only the electoral college has the right to vote for US presidents; citizens just get whatever rights their state allows them. So I guess gerrymandering is probably not even illegal…

Songs from the South: a cacophony of change around the Antarctic - rst.org.au Antarctica and the Southern Ocean lie at the heart of our global climate system. The Southern Ocean acts as a key regulator of global climate by connecting our oceans both horizontally and vertically;...

Are you in Hobart and looking for the perfect gift for Father’s Day on Sunday?

I can’t help you with that, sorry. But, I am giving a talk to the Royal Society of Tasmania about climate change and Antarctica. All welcome!

Sunday 7 September, 4pm, Geology Lecture Theatre, UTAS.

“If They Don’t Like It Here They Can Leave” Say People Who Don’t Like It, but Are Curiously Still Here — The Shovel "I genuinely love this country, just not its people, its government, its policies, its cities, its suburbs, its culture, its restaurants, its TV shows, or its direction. Although I do quite like Yum C...

One protester said she loved the country, “Just not its people, its government, its policies, its cities, its suburbs, its taxes, its laws, its restaurants, its internet, its cyclists, its TV shows, its direction or its culture. Although I do quite like Yum Cha on a Sunday with the family”

Dr Scott Spillias last night at @beeraquatic.bsky.social , on whether AI fish will save the fish or crush our futures (maybe both?). Assisted by some friendly (and not so friendly) AI bots #hobart #marinescience #imas_utas

Will AI save the oceans, or drown us in a sea of big data? Fish-modeller Dr Scott Spillias has views on this, and he's spilling all
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tomorrow! Come for the beer; stay for the science. 6:30pm 28th August, Hobart Brewing Coy

Beaker Street is here in Hobart! Time to party with people who have access to liquid nitrogen and ideas on how to use it! I’ll be around a lot of events; no liquid nitrogen but stop and ask me about frozen seawater… @beeraquatic.bsky.social #hobart #beakerstreet @imas-utas.bsky.social

Always great to see the beer/science communities combo @beeraquatic.bsky.social

As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk For decades, Australia has relied on data from US satellites, floats and monitoring programs. Planned deep cuts put Australian forecasting at risk

Our piece in @theconversation.com today:
As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk theconversation.com/as-us-climat...
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.

“Push it to the depths!” The very words I ride by… #MTB #tokyo

Not really shocking given the current political situation, but another big blow as Antarctica’s climate change is ramping up

Q: What happens when #Antarctic summer sea ice hits record lows in 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?

A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...

Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).

I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible. A disclaimer is shown, which states: Trends/variability in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are affected by very different atmospheric/oceanic processes and opposite seasonality!

With both poles observing unusually low sea ice conditions, global sea ice extent is the 2nd lowest on record for today's date...

More sea ice graphics available at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

Was this a sanctioned trail?

Incredible heat in the Mediteranean with sea sfc departures up to 7C (13 F) above normal!
While +13F is not unusual for air temps, for large water bodies it's ludicrous.
Marine heateaves in the Med are now 3X more likely than the 1980s due to climate change - CC can explain 90% of this increase.

Tracking sea ice is ‘early warning system’ for global heating – but the US is halting data sharing News comes as research finds record lows of Antarctic sea ice had seen more icebergs splintering off ice shelves

🛰️ "NSIDC's sea ice data is our number one heart rate monitor for the state of the planet’s ice. It’s our early warning system and tells us if the patient is about to flatline." — Dr Alex Fraser, AAPP sea-ice remote sensing scientist
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What's Antarctic sea ice ever done for us? Quite a lot! It cools the ocean, protects ice shelves, supports an irreplaceable ecosystem. Oh, and helps the ocean absorb $180 billion of carbon per year. Hopefully we can figure this out whilst there still is some summer sea ice...
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I don’t understand why you think the climate science community has understated anything. Yes the IPCC reports are (scientifically) conservative documents, but I’m unaware of any public communication by scientists themselves that doesn’t highlight the urgency of mitigation.

Ok, let me be clear then. The climate is incredibly variable system that can’t be bottled in a test tube . It takes time/work to separate human effects from variability (working on it!) If we get it wrong - cry wolf - that’ll just fuel the deniers.

And the “false hope” thing; outdated if it ever was true. The overwhelming narrative I see publicly reported is that we’ve locked in some very serious impacts (1.5c probably a bust now) but mitigation is still both urgent and essential

Ok, read it, a bit surprised to see one of my colleagues quoted so blatantly. I’ve already why the interpretation of IPCC is factually incorrect; the point about caution in peer review is indeed a frustration but probably a necessary bar to maintain integrity

Hmm, what facts are you accusing me of not sticking to? The IPCC process or the main reason why the climate science community can’t keep up with the rapid impacts of climate change?

I don’t need to read about how scientists are struggling to keep up with the rapidity of climate change; I need the university funding structure to change so that we have a hope of keeping up