Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22d

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...

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...

australiainstitute.org.au

7 25

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26d

🌊

PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 28d

➡️ Full Professorship (W3) in Physics of the Oceans
➡️Apply until October 8th
➡️ Joint professorship with PIK & University of Potsdam
➡️ Research focus: Ocean circulation, non-linear dynamics, and Earth system interactions studied with advanced modeling
➡️ Apply: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582

Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...

www.nature.com

3 25 59

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27d

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

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.

australiainstitute.org.au

20 150 240

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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...

www.abc.net.au

1 6 16

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 26

This keeps getting better and better

2 1

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 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...

Job Search

careers.pageuppeople.com

16 13

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is gold 😂

1 1

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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

media.tenor.com

1 6 18

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Harry Zekollari @harryzeko.bsky.social · Jun 2

⛰️ 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/...

[1/n]

4 42 69

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · May 27

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

Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · May 26

Climate research folks, do consider the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 9-12 Feb 2026. Southern Summer talking about climate and ice.

Abstract submission closes on 31 July 2025.

With a bonus @scar-antarctic.bsky.social INSTANT meeting alongside it.

2 8

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

International Association of Cryospheric Sciences @iacscryo.bsky.social · May 4

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.

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

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

2 5

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Help save lives. Your gift matched.

donate.doctorswithoutborders.org

6 6

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · Apr 28

#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.

1 2 14

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Apr 22

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...

Cover of book "Antarctica and the Earth System"

7 66 220

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · Apr 22

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...

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environm - Program Leader - Antarctic Climate

dcceewjobs.nga.net.au

1 12 16

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Apr 21

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-...

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.

theconversation.com

25 68

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Apr 21

"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:

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Apr 18

Faster than forecast impacts of heating planet wreaking havoc, with record-breaking new heat, rain and ocean temperature extremes.
thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?

The bulk of climate research has tended to underplay worst-case scenarios, preferring cautious projections and scholarly reticence. This reticence is clearly displayed in the work of the IPCC, which c...

thebulletin.org

15 160 370

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · Apr 17

In meme form #AusPol #AusVotes
#ClimateAdaptation

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

1 2 2

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · Mar 7

Accessing the vast and remote Denman Glacier system in Australian territory in East Antarctica by ocean is a monumental task, and after many years of planning and collaboration it’s a reality ⬇️

@antarctic.bsky.social | @arcsaef.bsky.social | AAD

antarctic.org.au/denman-marin...

Denman Marine Voyage: long-term vision now a reality - ACEAS

Denman Marine Voyage: long-term vision now a reality Accessing the vast and remote Denman Glacier system in Australian territory in East Antarctica by ocean is a monumental task, and after many years ...

antarctic.org.au

1 7

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

Polar science needs diversity - AntarcticGlaciers.org

We write in solidarity with our colleagues in the USA and internationally, who are suffering as efforts to increase equality, diversity and inclusion are systematically eroded and destroyed. It is imp...

www.antarcticglaciers.org

31 45 81

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jan 19

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

Ian Dale Kelly @iantarctic.bsky.social · Jan 18

First post on BlueSky to mark the end of my Antarctic fieldwork in Queen Maud Land working with @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social and some other wonderful scientists at @arcsaef.bsky.social. Overall, trip was hugely successful, with some exciting science to come. 1/4

5

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Dec 10

Congratulations Ailie - so heartily deserved!

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Dec 6

@antarcticmoss.bsky.social might like this one!

Colin Seftor @cseftor.bsky.social · Nov 24

I joined Blue Sky quite awhile ago but haven't yet posted. So let's start things off with a quick animation of this year's ozone hole as seen by the S-NPP OMPS instrument. NASA/NOAA say that it's a relatively small hole this year, evidence of the Montreal Protocol at work.

3 3

Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Dec 6

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

1 2

Reposted by Felicity McCormack

Jonathan Wille @jonathanwille.bsky.social · Dec 3

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

5 26 38