Rate My Professor Andrew King

King's research interests center on the impacts of climate change and variability on extreme weather events, improving climate projections particularly under net-zero and net-negative emissions scenarios, and understanding how current emissions choices affect future climates. He investigates climate change projections under the Paris Agreement, the effects of the rate of global warming on regional climates, and seasonal prediction of climate extremes. His ARC Future Fellowship project, funded with over AU$1 million for four years, titled ‘Understanding climate change beyond net-zero’, uses advanced earth system models to assess regional climate evolution and extreme event risks post-decarbonisation. King has received prestigious awards including the 2024 Anton Hales Medal from the Australian Academy of Science for outstanding contributions to research in Earth sciences, particularly on climate extremes and risk; the inaugural Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) Science Outreach Award in 2018; and previous ARC DECRA Fellowship. His influential publications include "Australian climate extremes at 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming" (2017), "The drivers of nonlinear local temperature change under global warming" (2019), "On the Linearity of Local and Regional Temperature Changes from 1.5 °C to 2 °C of Global Warming" (2018), "Attributing Changing Rates of Temperature Record Breaking to Anthropogenic Forcing" (2017), and "Emergence of multivariate climate change signals" (2024). Through media appearances, opinion pieces, and contributions to national reports such as the Australian Academy of Science’s ‘The risks to Australia of a 3°C warmer world’ (2021), King has substantial impact on public understanding and policy discourse on climate change.