Dr James Kirkham

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 🦋

#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/scien…

⚠️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/s4324…

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/17/19…

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/s4146…