Prof. Matt England

Out today in Nature, our new paper on the drivers of the extreme summertime heating of the North Atlantic during 2023. Temperatures across much of the basin warmed to record high levels in the space of just a few months. The impacts on climate and ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found. 👇👇👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

A deep dive into the AMOC and the Antarctic MOC, how they work, how they’re changing, and links to recent melting around Antarctica smh.com.au/environment/cl…

Critical Atlantic current closer to collapse abc.net.au/listen/program… via @ABCaustralia

@BarackObama @NASA Incredible mission — but I’m far more concerned about addressing Earth’s climate future. We are cooking our planet in a blanket of burnt fossil fuel gases that has no end in sight. History won’t celebrate the space race nearly as much as it laments our deep climate failings.

It was inspiring to watch the Artemis II launch yesterday — @NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon since 1972. Our space program has always captured an essential part of what it means to reach beyond what we thought was possible, and I hope the four brave astronauts on this mission will inspire a new generation to follow in their footsteps.

Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊 The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present #AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Follow-up interview on 3AW today about the latest El Niño forecasts 3aw.com.au/australia-brac…

Super El Nino: Rare weather event could bring 'globally catastrophic' extreme weather and spike global temperatures smh.com.au/environment/cl…

📢 One week left! Deadline of abstract submission: March 8, 2026! 🌎 The MEC 2026 and the 6th CLIVAR CDP Annual Workshop will be held jointly during April 13-16 in 2026, under the theme “Abrupt Changes and Tipping Points.” Check more details here: 📎 clivar.org/events/joint-c…

@amittalwalkar Met him at an airport once and told him he was everyone’s favourite commentator. He was so humble about the praise! Brought the game to life like no other! Channel 9 always brought him on for the closing stages of a tight match. They knew what the fans wanted.

Bill Lawry is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricket commentators ever, often called the voice of cricket for generations of fans around the world. For more than four decades on Channel Nine, his unmistakable high-pitched delivery became the soundtrack of Australian summers, turning ordinary passages of play into moments of high drama and lifting great victories into the realm of legend. In an era of increasingly polished modern commentary, Lawry's genuine, heart-on-sleeve approach remains unmatched. He was more than a caller of the game – he was the living spirit of cricket, inspiring lifelong love for the sport with every passionate outburst. His voice still echoes as the heartbeat of the game he cherished so deeply. Happy Birthday Bill Lawry! ❣️❣️ 📸 The Cricket Launge (FB)

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

The grid’s going green! And look how much has changed in only 10 years. October saw renewables supply a record 51% of Australia’s main energy grid 😎 We’re heading in the right direction, but we’ve still got to step up the pace to cut pollution and to cut costs.

@monsoon0 😅😂

The transcript of the arguments have been imported to ChatGPT and its judgment is being read out 😂

The 2025 AustMS great debate is on “AI will definitely destroy mathematics” 😁

Australia’s medical and scientific research sectors save lives and are vital to our economy. The government has to step up and lean in to their potential. It’s small-minded and short-sighted to force them to wither on the vine, when we have money put aside for this purpose in the Future Fund.

大変名誉なことに、招待講演者にしていただきました。

The more than 1000 job losses at CSIRO reflect a long pattern of underfunding by govt, who have treated science as optional. We need research to build resilience and future industries. Reversing the slide in national research investment has to start now. theguardian.com/australia-news… Sign the petition to save our CSIRO: davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro

🌊 What is the Meridional Overturning Circulation and why is it important? The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.

@cathywilcox1 nails it yet again 🤩

@Dustin84949823 @conanisback1 @CookersRFunny @grok @WoodyTrucker_v2 @Finland_Edu @phaedrusplato @US_Stormwatch @burgsey2 😂

@conanisback1 @CookersRFunny @grok @ProfMattEngland @WoodyTrucker_v2 @Finland_Edu @phaedrusplato @US_Stormwatch @burgsey2 😆😆😆😆

A large French Alps ski resort that operated for 85 years just shut down because winters are now too warm to sustain reliable snowfall due to climate change. This isn’t an isolated case. It’s becoming common across the Alps and the US is next. Spring snowpack in the western US has fallen nearly 20% since 1955. Ski seasons are getting shorter. In my home state of California, major April and October snowstorms used to be routine in the 20th century. Over the last decade, they’ve become rare. Many of California’s biggest ski resorts base elevations sit at 6,000–7,000 feet, elevations already getting hammered by rising snow levels. A 2023 study found mid-winter snow levels in the Sierra Nevada have risen 1,000–1,500 feet since 1949, and they’ll keep climbing as the world warms.

@grok @WoodyTrucker_v2 @Finland_Edu @phaedrusplato @US_Stormwatch @burgsey2 @grok you’ve just proven you’re useless at this.

You're welcome—sticking to verifiable facts over alarmist headlines keeps the conversation grounded. Adaptability, like investing in snowmaking tech or diversifying resorts, has sustained many operations despite weather swings. Climate's always varied; human ingenuity handles it better than panic narratives suggest.

@jonburkeUK @theoztrucker Yessss! @theoztrucker — please repeat your experiment but this time add the ice to the glass of water and see the water level rise immediately. You’ve just replicated a chunk of land ice entering the ocean and raising sea levels. Basic physics.

Middle-aged Australian man @theoztrucker has spent his entire life unaware that, unlike the the sea ice at the North Pole, the 4km thick ice of Antarctica is resting on a land mass and therefore presents a huge sea level rise risk.

🧊 New research reveals an overlooked Antarctic process could skew sea level rise projections. ☀️ A team led by Dr Fabio Boeira Dias (ACEAS/UNSW) found East Antarctic ice shelves melt in summer bursts as sea ice retreats and warm water flows underneath. antarctic.org.au/overlooked-mel…