Andrew B. Watkins

Andrew B. Watkins

@windjunky.bsky.social

Australian climate scientist rambling about climate drivers, variability, risks, trends & impacts. Once played goalie for Antarctica. Born @ 325ppm. https://www.linkedin.com/in/drandrewwatkins/

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Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Presenting to HSR reps at Trades Hall on the implications of working indoors and out in a new more extreme climate. Hosted by the amazing Wilhelmina Stracke - speak up and look after each other this hot summer. In Unity.

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

So sad and so common around the word now

Bob Henson@bhensonweather.bsky.social

"St. Mary’s Glacier, a perennial snowfield popular among hikers and skiers, melted completely in September. 'What we’re witnessing is the loss of that part of Colorado’s identity. And it’s not just Colorado,' said McGrath, who specializes in glacier dynamics." apnews.com/article/glac...

apnews.comColorado's glaciers thinned dramatically due to record low snow and heat in 2026The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low mountain snow and record warm temperatures.

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Michael Brown
@mjibrown.bsky.social

Among the many things climate change deniers don’t understand is significance. They spend years looking for errors in climate data but don’t understand that what they find is almost always insignificant. It’s also why they’ll never be satisfied by any rigorous report on climate data.

Graham Readfearn@readfearn.bsky.social

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

theguardian.comThe BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature CheckAn ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up
Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Same (Liberal gov) people attacked the BoM ACORN-SAT dataset which prompted a review in 2011 which found nothing wrong (theconversation.com/bureaus-weat...) and again in 2015 (www.bom.gov.au/climate/data... ) which commended the work to Minister Frydenberg, and again said there was nothing wrong.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

The BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature Check

theguardian.comThe BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature CheckAn ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up * Want to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter here Australia’s climate has warmed by more than 1.5C since 1910, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s main long-term temperature data. If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even – perhaps – the rationale for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...
Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Funny thing is, the temperature trend is completely consistent with ocean temperature trends, regional temperature trends and global temperature trends. Its as though the planet is warming and BoM is [objectively as found by past reviews] doing a great job monitoring it. Who'da thunk it?

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Would you believe... the updated BoM summer extreme heat forecast has increased the chance of extreme heat even more! www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahea...

Andrew B. Watkins@windjunky.bsky.social

I have NEVER seen a BoM extreme (chance of top 20% of all years) maximum temperature outlook with numbers as high as this. And this is for summer 2026-27. Crikey. Sydney with a shocking high chance of extremes - watch out in the western suburbs. Can’t rule out 50C www.bom.gov.au/climate/outl...

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

50,000 excess deaths from heat, unknown additional 1000’s from smoke/air pollution. The untold story of extreme weather over summer.

KarSteN Haustein@khaustein.bsky.social

New attribution study from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social supported by the @wwattribution.bsky.social team. 50.000 excess deaths across Europe during Summer 2026. 65% of the mortality burden is attributable to man-made climate change, ie our fossil emissions! www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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climatecouncil.org.au
@climatecouncil.org.au

Ever feel like climate change is too big for one person to make a dent? 🤔 Here are more than 20 everyday ways to help cut climate pollution, at home, at work, in your community and with your voice. 📌 Save this for later and share it with someone who’s been asking what they can do.

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Fat Cat Climate Scientists…. like me! (Replace EXXON with Woodside for Australian viewers). Cracker clip narrated by Woody Harrelson… www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

youtube.comNew Exxon El Niño CommercialYouTube video by Yellow Dot Studios
Yellow Dot Studios@yellowdotstudios.bsky.social

The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.

youtube.comNew Exxon El Niño CommercialYouTube video by Yellow Dot Studios
Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

In context, the snapper come onto the bight in Port Phillip on Cup Day (first Tuesday in November), when the temperature typically hits 16°C. Two weeks prior to this we have hit 17°C at the top of the bay

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climatecouncil.org.au
@climatecouncil.org.au

Live nowhere near the bush? Bushfires are still costing you. A new Emergency Leaders for Climate Action report finds they’ll cost Australia $6 billion a year, from hospital visits and lost work to rebuilding public infrastructure. Check out the new report here: https://bit.ly/bushfirecost

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climatecouncil.org.au
@climatecouncil.org.au

Extreme summer heat is up to four times more likely than usual across much of Australia. That’s the Bureau of Meteorology’s latest outlook, and the map speaks for itself. Climate Councillor and scientist Dr Andrew Watkins says he’s never seen numbers this high.

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Fantastic article by @phannam.bsky.social! Highlights much more than just the CSIRO staff angst (which is shared by BoM and University researchers) but also the silence on climate because it doesn’t poll highly and hence near total lack of adaptation. reneweconomy.com.au/wandering-to...

reneweconomy.com.au"Wandering towards dystopia": CSIRO scientists want open discussion of climate impacts before it's too lateSenior CSIRO scientists discussed how to have an "open conversation" about the rising threats from a warming world before "it's too late".
Peter Hannam@peterhannam1.bsky.social

(Exclusive, from me) An all-staff work review reveals some angst about what the public is not being told… reneweconomy.com.au/wandering-to...

reneweconomy.com.au"Wandering towards dystopia": CSIRO scientists want open discussion of climate impacts before it's too lateSenior CSIRO scientists discussed how to have an "open conversation" about the rising threats from a warming world before "it's too late".

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climatecouncil.org.au
@climatecouncil.org.au

Helen Haines has always shown up for her community with integrity and care. We join with people across her community and the nation today in holding her in our thoughts.

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

"Subsidising fossil fuels is subsidising suicide," UN chief Antonio Guterres ahead of UN biodiversity summit, COP17. **for every $US that goes into saving our planet, $30 goes into degrading it** Bugger. sg.news.yahoo.com/subsidising-...

sg.news.yahoo.com‘Subsidising suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuelsFossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows.View on euronews

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climatecouncil.org.au
@climatecouncil.org.au

GOOD NEWS 📣 This September, renewable energy provided more power in Australia's main grid than fossil fuels, after first reaching this milestone last Spring.

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

That podcast is a YouTube clip now, and well worth a watch even if just to see a young McBride, Nicholls, Williams and Coughlan - all BoM legends. youtu.be/dL4B2Tv3oO8?...

youtu.beHow we know this year’s El Niño is going to be big | If You're ListeningYouTube video by If You're Listening
Andrew B. Watkins@windjunky.bsky.social

This is a great climate and El Niño history listen! I was in a classroom looking out the window when the dust storm hit, and my mind boggled - my wife was riding her bike and rushed into a friends house to escape the Armageddon. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

abc.net.auThe apocalyptic El Niño we didn't see coming - ABC listenToxic smoke haze is blanketing Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, after weeks of fires in Indonesia. In central Chile, flash flooding has trapped people on their roofs, and already Australia’s s...
Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Surely that poor dead horse should be spared the flogging by now… A small number of errors in a database in years that are not included in the calculation of Australia’s temperature trend means, frankly, bugger all. (Other than to remind me why The Australian can’t be taken seriously any more.)

Peter Hannam@peterhannam1.bsky.social

The Australian attacks the Bureau of Meteorology…for data a century or so old … what a relief that we don’t have to worry about climate change… (handy, too, to undermine the coming State of the Climate, and the mass of record temperatures in Australia and abroad)..

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

This is a great climate and El Niño history listen! I was in a classroom looking out the window when the dust storm hit, and my mind boggled - my wife was riding her bike and rushed into a friends house to escape the Armageddon. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

abc.net.auThe apocalyptic El Niño we didn't see coming - ABC listenToxic smoke haze is blanketing Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, after weeks of fires in Indonesia. In central Chile, flash flooding has trapped people on their roofs, and already Australia’s s...
Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Top quintile forecasts should have a probability of around 20% if ‘normal’ heat expected. Sydney and north coast NSW, inland Qld, the tropical north and even NE Tassie over 80% chance - more than quadruple the normal chance of summer extreme heat

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

I’ve been in Canberra this week talking to politicians about climate change risk, adaptation and mitigation. I stopped at the Prime Minister’s portraits for inspiration. What would Gough do?

Andrew B. Watkins
@windjunky.bsky.social

Atmospheric physics doesn’t give a rat’s putooty where the coal is burned, so why do we?

climatecouncil.org.au@climatecouncil.org.au

Should coal mines count their pollution? High Court says yes. Add your name 👉 https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/end-the-free-ride-petition/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/08/has-the-high-court-set-australias-fossil-fuel-producers-shaking-in-their-boots-they-should-be

theguardian.comHas the high court set Australia’s fossil fuel producers shaking in their boots? They should be | Jacqueline PeelA high court victory sets a new baseline for coal and gas projects in New South Wales – and potentially for the rest of

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Graham Readfearn
@readfearn.bsky.social

A month of broken records for temperatures around Australia. Hottest September ever for minimums across the continent, scores of places setting records for warmest September. A snow depth gauge in the NSW alps fell to zero - a first for any September since it was deployed in 1954.

theguardian.comAustralia experiences second hottest September on record as El Niño and climate crisis combineAlpine areas also experience record-breaking heat with snow depth recorded at zero in Kosciuszko national park