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BAMOS November 2025
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Doing more. Doing better.
The assessment poses hard questions about how climate change will affect every system vital to Australia.
Ideally, such an assessment would be carried out every five years and be mandated by legislation.
Future assessments should comprehensively examine global impacts and their flow-ons to Australia. As the COVID pandemic showed, Australia is part of a global system when it comes to human health and supply chains. Defence, trade and finance all are international by nature. And climate change refugees from the South Pacific are already arriving.
The assessment makes clear that current efforts to curb and adapt to climate change will not prevent significant harm to Australia and our way of life. We must do better – and do it quickly.
Young people, and unborn generations, can and will hold us all to account on our progress from today.
This article has been republished from The Conversation under a Creative Common license. Read the original article here.
We’ re excited to announce that AMOS 2026 will be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor from 16-20 February 2026.
The AMOS Conference is Australia’ s pre-eminent meeting profiling the latest findings in applications of meteorology, climate science and oceanography across local, national and global scales.
Tasmania, located between the edge of the Australian continent and the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, offers the perfect backdrop for our conference. Our planet is teetering on the edge of tipping points and possibly catastrophic climate change. In 2023, the world had already crossed six of the nine planetary boundaries that regulate Earth’ s stability – climate change being one of these. To address the critical problems in weather, oceans and climate science will require cooperation across the notional boundaries between disciplines. By building connections across these transitional zones, and seeing them as spaces for transformation to happen, we can apply cutting-edge science to address the big challenges.
The unique setting of Tasmania provides an excellent opportunity to showcase the connections between the tropical north of Australia, through the subtropics and midlatitudes, to the edge of the continent and beyond, out over the Southern Ocean where so many weather systems are formed. Antarctica marks the southern boundary of the ocean, exerting a unique influence on the weather of the southern hemisphere.
We therefore invite abstract submissions to the following proposed sessions, which have been designed to foster connections across the spaces between weather and climate, oceans and coasts, land and atmosphere, atmosphere and cryosphere, troposphere and stratosphere, tropics and extra-tropics; as well as between science and industry, policy, health, weather resources, and ecosystems. We look forward to seeing you in Hobart in February 2026,
The AMOS 2026 Organising Committee