In just 100 years, fossil fuel use has more than undone 5000 years of natural cooling. It's hotter now than any time in the history of human civilisation. We are catapulting ourselves out of the Holocene into uncharted territory. Current life on Earth is not adapted to this.

Imagine blowing up Stonehenge (5000 years old) without consequence. Such insane casual cruelty and disrespect of human intelligence in destroying this cultural site, where bone tools (28,000 years old) and a plaited hair belt (4000 years old) were found smh.com.au/national/blast…

In Victoria, like everywhere else in the world, the effects of climate change are clear #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

Well done Ben! No surprise you got this with all the amazing work I have seen from you. Congratulations!

Not only are today's temperatures the warmest in the past 12,000 years, temperatures are also increasing faster than they have ever before.

“BY VOTING FOR JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS!”

Animated chart shows 2000 years of global temperatures in twenty seconds. Source: buff.ly/2EhDTmv

Nice to have a return to weather chart discussion with Alex Borowiak presenting on the MJO and discussing Timorese floods. Science at Melbourne

This wintery Melbourne lockdown we are going to take the opportunity to bring a little positivity to your week by introducing members of the new ESPG committee who will work to encourage excitement and engagement in earth sciences, within our Science at Melbourne community and beyond!

Now that the dust has settled and the winners have had time to bask in their victory we are pleased to share some of the winning entries from our recent photo competition 📷🏆🎉

What are some ways we can save our planet this #EarthDay? 🌏 Two of our Science at Melbourne students share five ways we can mitigate the climate crisis and make our cities more liveable.

Research by Alex Borowiak finds the increasing occurrence of phases 5 and 6 of the Madden-Julian Oscillation explains most of increased rainfall that has been observed in northwest Australia since the 1950s. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… Andrew King 🌈 Sharing Science

Hi everyone, I wrote a Pursuit article on my recent research on rainfall trends in northwest Australia. Much easier to read and understand than the original journal article :) Original journal article: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/rainf…

In our new paper iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… we examine the emergence of a warming trend across people's lifetimes to date. The clearest emergence is found in equatorial areas for people between 40 and 60. @huntercdouglas_ Dr Luke Harrington Ed Hawkins Alex Borowiak

#NESP scientists are working to understand the drivers of Australia’s changing climate 1 such driver is the Madden Julian Oscillation and its impacts over northern Australia. Lean more about it and the latest news from across the hub in our May editorial nesp2climate.com.au/climate-system…

What is net zero and what happens after we reach it? After net zero, the global average temperature is expected to roughly stabilise. Temperatures over land would begin to cool, while parts of the ocean continue to warm. Read our new briefing note here: climateextremes.org.au/understanding-…