Chief Science Advisor to Ambition on Melting Ice policy group on sea level rise and water resources Now on 🦋 https://xitter.cf/t.co/yxQR4894sa
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Like many others, I've now bitten the bullet and will be migrating across to the other platform
I will stay on this platform too for now as the network continues to be useful, but if you have already migrated - or choose to do so in the future - do reconnect with me on 🦋
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
The poles are warming at record speed, but are drastic technological “fixes” the answer?
Article authors, including Martin Siegert and @HeidiSevestre, say the real safeguard is immediate, deep decarbonization.
Read more in Frontiers in Science ➡️ frontiersin.org/journals/sci…
#Geoengineering is not the way to address #climatechange in the polar regions.
Our review of 5 prominent polar geoengineering ideas concludes that none are viable. Instead, they are environmentally dangerous and have major governance & ethics issues
frontiersin.org/journals/sci…
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I don't post here often these days but this is important.
A carefully considered review of the most prominent polar geoengineering concepts by a large international group of polar science experts concludes that they are dangerous distractions.
frontiersin.org/journals/sci…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
Very late on the uptake, but great to see our British-Irish ice sheet extents illustrated in this BBC article alongside the ever-fantastic work by @JD_Kirkham
For the full article of ice-extents and timings, see here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
Tune in this morning for the opening of the June UN Climate Meetings #SB62 in Bonn 🇺🇳
The meetings drive forward progress on key issues and prepare decisions for adoption at COP30 in November.
Executive Secretary @simonstiell will give an opening speech: youtube.com/live/N2co8huVNoA
⚠️New study shows that even warming of 1.5°C is too high to prevent long term global damage from the melt of Earth's polar ice sheets
@GeogDurham
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
Hot off the press! The State of the Cryosphere 2024 report has been officially translated into Chinese
Read the full translation: iccinet.org/statecryo24
We aim to translate this report into more languages; if interested in supporting these efforts, we welcome you to reach out.
⬇️ PUBLISHED TODAY ⬇️
The State of the Cryosphere 2024 report: over 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn of vastly higher impacts and costs to the global economy given accelerating losses in the world’s snow and ice regions.
Read here:
iccinet.org/statecryo24/
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
Winter #snow measurements on #glaciers for 2025 in the frame of @glamos_ch are completed. Read our report on the results 👇
There's a 13% glacier snow deficit Swiss-wide, with strong spatial variability though. Another difficult year for glaciers ahead...
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/winterrep…
Since 1976, Earth's glaciers have lost 9000 billion tonnes of water, contributing 25 mm to global sea-level rise
Over 40 % of this loss has happened in the last decade... and 6 % occurred in 2023 alone in a record-shattering year of glacier ice loss
essd.copernicus.org/articles…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
🆕🇨🇠For the first time ever, @glamos_ch publishes the Swiss Glacier Bulletin, a comprehensive look at glacier change in 2024. Despite heavy winter snow, 2.3% of ice volume was lost. A landmark report on a critical year for Swiss glaciers: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/glbulleti…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
NSIDC announce a downgrading of service level for their sea ice index dataset which may mean no further updates.
These are globally important datasets for monitoring the ongoing changes to the climate. This is horribly damaging for global science.
nsidc.org/data/user-resource…
Dr James Kirkham retweeted
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
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nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
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nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
