@rdlarter

Polar marine scientist. UK Science Lead in @GlacierThwaites Science Coordination Office. On Mastodon @PoLaRobs@fediscience.org & Bluesky @polarrobs.bsky.social

 Cambridge, UK
bas.ac.uk/profile/rdla/
Joined May 2015
  • Tweets14K
  • Following970
  • Followers5.8K
1.8KMedia
Change to #ThwaitesGlacier, #Antarctica constitutes the largest uncertainty in #sealevel rise forecasts. The Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration recently summarised some key findings in a briefing document - thwaitesglacier.org/findings
22
115
15
321
85,612
I don't post on this sespit very often these days but just want to express my thanks to Dr Sharma and his colleagues at Clinic 9 (Urgent Treatment) @CUH_NHS Addenbrookes hospital who dealt with me efficiently and with good humour today after a painful fall from my bike.
1
14
374
Nice to see the white and yellow lines refreshed recently on Grange Road @CambsCC, but did your contractor run out of paint for the cycle lane markers? @GreaterCambs
3
227
Ice loss on Konkordiaplatz, Great Aletsch Glacier, during summer 2026. No words... A layer of almost 6 metres of ice is gone. In the center of the biggest glacier of the Alps. It is hard to grasp even for glaciologists. @glamos_ch @VAW_glaciology Pic: A. Linsbauer
51
444
32
1,058
91,220
Boss making you resign to save himself? Join a union.
186
3,678
203
17,555
343,940
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
314
5,769
288
27,681
1,050,047
Rob Larter retweeted
BONUS🌍@TheDisproofJul 6
The amazing Prof. Richard Alley explains how we know the recent rapid rise in CO2 was due to burning fossil fuels; the driver of current rapid, harmful warming!
21
157
16
327
19,090
Rob Larter retweeted
Zeke Hausfather
@hausfathJul 6
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
170
442
41
1,183
64,983
As temperatures climb here in the driest part of the UK, Cambridge Water is asking people to ‘keep to essential water use only’.
Mark Williamson@markrwilliamsonJun 19
A year ago, the government said it was “seizing control” of the planning process to speed up delivery of the Fens Reservoir - 12 months on the start date remains the same. Here’s the latest: open.substack.com/pub/mwilli…
3
12
3
17
2,893
Rob Larter retweeted
Zeke Hausfather
@hausfathJan 2
Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:
400
694
58
1,652
94,222
Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:
107
681
57
2,146
227,126
A quick look back at 2025 regarding the instability risk of the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC. Some bad, some positive news. A meta-analysis of 768 runs with 38 CMIP6 climate models shows an #AMOC shutdown is not a low-probability event any more. 1/6 iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
1
82
7
191
10,255
Petition - save Geology at the Univ. of Leicester c.org/h9rysz2C9x Finances are highly stretched in UK higher education, but it's hard to understand a uni cutting a field critical to the energy transition and understanding of the changes taking place in the world today.

Sign the Petition

Geology will continue at the University of Leicester

change.org
1
2
4
2,101
Posting this here because there are probably quite a number of people on this platform who live in the affected areas. Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years yorkshirebylines.co.uk/polit…

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years

Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

yorkshirebylines.co.uk
2
3
6
294
Today the 2025 State of the Cryosphere report was published by over 50 leading cryosphere scientists. An urgent warning about the global consequences of the meltdown of ice, including the risk of shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean current system #AMOC. 🌊 iccinet.org/statecryo25/
26
196
10
339
31,290
An Antarctic glacier shrank by nearly 50% in two months, the fastest retreat in modern history. It could spell trouble for sea levels, report finds. cnn.com/2025/11/03/climate/a… – at Lilburn, GA

Antarctic glacier saw the fastest retreat in modern history; it could spell trouble for sea levels,...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level...

cnn.com
6
3
273
• Where and when will glacier retreat accelerate? • How stable are the shear margins that bound Thwaites Glacier? • How much of what we have learnt about the Thwaites system can be translated to improve our understanding of other ice shelf/glacier systems globally?
1
6
68
2,506
A lot of new knowledge has been gained through research conducted as part of the ITGC, but much more still remains to be done. The costs of such research are minor compared to the costs of adaptation investments that depend on the information it will provide for reliable planning
3
10
79
2,388
Load more