Will Hobbs
@icecoldwill.bsky.social
Climate scientist, focussed on Antarctic sea ice
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BY 2030: "The remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is virtually exhausted and is equivalent to only four years of current emissions." — @pfriedling.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social on the 2025 Global Carbon Budget in @carbonbrief.org
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BY 2030: "The remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is virtually exhausted and is equivalent to only four years of current emissions." — @pfriedling.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social on the 2025 Global Carbon Budget in @carbonbrief.org
▶️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fos...
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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BY 2030: "The remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is virtually exhausted and is equivalent to only four years of current emissions." — @pfriedling.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social on the 2025 Global Carbon Budget in @carbonbrief.org
▶️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fos...
BY 2030: "The remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is virtually exhausted and is equivalent to only four years of current emissions." — @pfriedling.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social on the 2025 Global Carbon Budget in @carbonbrief.org
▶️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fos...
Cat’s are b*stards; they puke on your carpet, wake you up at night, and then break your heart… Thanks so much Warren for all the purrs, the fluff and the many lessons. #adoptdontbuy #10liveshobart #cats
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Cat’s are b*stards; they puke on your carpet, wake you up at night, and then break your heart… Thanks so much Warren for all the purrs, the fluff and the many lessons. #adoptdontbuy #10liveshobart #cats
What's the future for Antarctic sea ice? Next Tuesday (11th November I'll be giving a free lunchtime talk at TMAG on @antarctic.bsky.social @imas-utas.bsky.social efforts to answer that very question. You can register here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/UVHnCE8kD7...
#hobart #utas #antarctica
#hobart #utas #antarctica
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What's the future for Antarctic sea ice? Next Tuesday (11th November I'll be giving a free lunchtime talk at TMAG on @antarctic.bsky.social @imas-utas.bsky.social efforts to answer that very question. You can register here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/UVHnCE8kD7...
#hobart #utas #antarctica
#hobart #utas #antarctica
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We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change
We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...
www.technosphere.earth
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
Unsurprising but still dismal news; at over 45 years the satellite record of sea ice is one of our longest continuous climate records. Our experts at @antarctic.bsky.social are working to ensure consistency between the NSIDC record and alternative data sources
UGH! When will it end. 😭
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Unsurprising but still dismal news; at over 45 years the satellite record of sea ice is one of our longest continuous climate records. Our experts at @antarctic.bsky.social are working to ensure consistency between the NSIDC record and alternative data sources
Wait, doesn’t this guy live in a palace and advocate for the economic burden to women of unrestrained birth rates…?
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wait, doesn’t this guy live in a palace and advocate for the economic burden to women of unrestrained birth rates…?
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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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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.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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)
Also, one of my fave Horrible Histories sketches is Cash In The Abbey, a parody of daytime TV shows featuring Cromwell and King Henry rummaging in monasteries for valuables
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Horrible Histories Cash In The Abbey
YouTube video by gazza6359
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October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Thankfully nowadays we no longer have unaccountable demagogues lying, stealing and starting wars…. (Oh yeah, and trawling through a line of trophy wives)
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
Lunchtime Talks: Dr Will Hobbs, oceanographer & meteorologist | Maritime Museum Tasmania
Join us for the latest in our Lunchtime Talks series, where we'll hear from Dr Will Hobbs, who will talk us through what recent winters are telling us about Antarctica’s future. For almost four decade...
www.maritimetas.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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.
#hobart #imas_utas
#hobart #imas_utas
The Earth’s climate is changing and to limit warming to 1.5 or 2°C we need to do more than reducing our emissions - but what else can we do?
Join us on September 25th as Dr Max Rintoul highlights the possibilities, risks, and decisions that we might face to shape the planet’s future climate.
Join us on September 25th as Dr Max Rintoul highlights the possibilities, risks, and decisions that we might face to shape the planet’s future climate.
September 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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.
#hobart #imas_utas
#hobart #imas_utas
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...
'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.
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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...
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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.
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.
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;...
rst.org.au
September 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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.
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.
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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”
“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...
theshovel.com.au
September 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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
@beeraquatic.bsky.social
tomorrow! Come for the beer; stay for the science. 6:30pm 28th August, Hobart Brewing Coy
@beeraquatic.bsky.social
tomorrow! Come for the beer; stay for the science. 6:30pm 28th August, Hobart Brewing Coy
August 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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
@beeraquatic.bsky.social
tomorrow! Come for the beer; stay for the science. 6:30pm 28th August, Hobart Brewing Coy
@beeraquatic.bsky.social
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
August 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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
Special shoutout to the wonderful teams at Science Made Beerable (for making the science behind brewing fun), Beer Aquatic (for the monthly dive into marine science), and Beaker Street Festival (for blending science & a late-night brew with their Scientists in the Pub and Roving Scientist Bar)
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August 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Always great to see the beer/science communities combo @beeraquatic.bsky.social
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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.
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.
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
theconversation.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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.
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.
July 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Not really shocking given the current political situation, but another big blow as Antarctica’s climate change is ramping up
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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
July 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Not really shocking given the current political situation, but another big blow as Antarctica’s climate change is ramping up
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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...
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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...
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
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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.
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.
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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.
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.
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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.
More sea ice graphics available at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.
July 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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.
More sea ice graphics available at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.
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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.
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.
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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.
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.
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🛰️ "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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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
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🛰️ "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
@utas.edu.au
@nsidc.bsky.social
🌊 tinyurl.com/3vphpmzy
@utas.edu.au
@nsidc.bsky.social
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