Tas van Ommen

And if for whatever reason you omit any information such as a disused account, old phone number, etc. you have made a false declaration. The experience of others so far demonstrates the high risks of being subject to mistreatment with few protections and uncertain outcomes.
Why go? Why risk it?

MYIC DCN camp, aerial view. Traverse vehicles and vans are seen alongside vans for amenities and sleeping and the new kitchen and mess shelter. The large drill tent is seen at the far right.

The past week has been busy as the station infrastructure is installed, providing kitchen and amenities buildings independent of the traverse facilities. Camp with newly constructed kitchen and mess in the centre. 📷 D. Beloin /..

I agree!

Picture featuring the book by Peter Brannen “The Story of CO₂ Is the Story of Everything”

I’ve been looking forward to this journey. Arrived today after months on order. Thanks @peterbrannen.bsky.social

Photo of the Dome C North Station.

Activity at the Dome C North station is fully underway with the final placement of camp infrastructure and science drilling commencing. The first drilling task will be installation of 120 metres of casing in the upper borehole. 📷 J. Pedro /1

Had one die in an inaccessible closed off chimney 🤢 Truly awful, but capped off in horror as a phalanx of fat stinky maggots emerged some time later from every nearby crevice.
Bolted the replaced chimney cover down so tight that no creature could prise it off.

It surely also compromises the ability of the accused to manage a legal defense in any number of ways consequent to loss of income.

Two billion kids would REALLY appreciate it if we did more about this than just make a few non-binding promises every year & then instantly forget about them.
#COP30

You are right that Australia should sign on to the Mutirão roadmap. It’s not enough to state reductions goals, we need a roadmap and more. We urgently need to already be travelling the road to serious phase-out.

Home for the next two months for the Traverse and MYIC teams.
📸 Damien Beloin

print version of linked commentary

Print version of my new commentary ("Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction") on #COP30, Bill Gates and more, in the latest issue of @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...

Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.

And aged care workers. Interesting is a mild description.

So short-sighted.

😢

If such abject failures, verging on deliberate corruption, have inadequate penalties then there’s little point in standards and regulatory oversight.

#politas

The dismal science - Wikipedia

The “dismal science”

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It really needs to emphasised as strongly as possible:

Do not eat Tasmanian farmed salmon.

L to R: MYIC team members Joel Pedro, Lenneke Jong and Julius Rix arrive to Wilkins runway. Terra bus in the background for the 3hr ride over ice sheet from Wilkins to Casey Station.

ADF Operation Southern Discovery first C17 flight for season to Wilkins. Delivering Expeditioners and cargo to support the Aus Antarctic Program.

Touchdown on ice.. three MYIC science and drilling team members arrived to Casey Station yesterday after ride in the big jet with other incoming Casey Station crew. Thanks ADF!
#AusAntarctic 📸 JP

Traverse is making excellent progress more about this and some great picutres at www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fxr...

The Coalition is spinning a lie that climate action is economically bad. How are they getting away with it? | Zoe Daniel In this post-truth environment, the interests of coal and gas are somehow able to win the hearts and minds of voters * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast During the last parliament I negotiated an amendment to the Climate Change Act to lock in Australia’s carbon emissions target as a floor – not a ceiling. I did it to promote government ambition to exceed the target and, having covered the first Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, to provide a legislative buffer against backsliding by a future Australian government. Continue reading...

The Coalition is spinning a lie that climate action is economically bad. How are they getting away with it? | Zoe Daniel

This is good communication - a simple message clearly articulated. The fossil-ocracy arguments around affordability are distortions of reality.

They don't care if it is solved so much as that they profit from it.

Stunning start to the weekend on Kunanyi /Mt Wellington. Chilly weekend for mid November and will be full winter by Monday with snow down to the upper suburbs of #Hobart.

Long haul for science begins – Australian Antarctic Program (News 2025) Australia’s Antarctic tractor-traverse team is making its way up the Antarctic plateau to deliver scientific equipment, fuel and food to the site of the Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) drilling project.

Our season is now well and truly underway with the traverse climbing toward the drill site on the plateau. www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/lo...

6,000,000 year old ice & plenty of wind and cold! What folks go through for old ice.

Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org

Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program.

PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cockerill And His Bantams V 3.3 ( Dig PDF) : Albert Cockerill DSO : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Autobiography of wartime experiences of RAAF pilot Albert (Bert) Cockerill.

If anyone has interest in a WW2 RAAF bomber pilot’s memoir this might be worth a look. My father in law got a rare (for aircrew) DSO for a pretty epic save of his aircraft and crew.

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New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

New climate classification maps from BoM show the march southwards of the tropics and subtropics over recent decades.
#climatechange
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