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Prof. Jason Box
@climate_ice
ice climatologist at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, contemplating Greenland, Arctic and global climate issues. Views here my own. :-)
CopenhagenJoined October 2008
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The US taxpayer actually subsidizes the destruction of their own forests. In the southeastern US trees are cut down from forests and turned into wood pellets to be exported/burned as fuel in European power plants - So-called biomass energy - THIS AIN’T GREEN.
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The bottom 50% of the world population contributes to 12% of global emissions but is exposed to 75% of relative income losses due to climate change while owning just 2% of world wealth.
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Findelen Glacier
1946 | 2020
Downwasting of the glacier tongue has triggered an impressive landslide in the right lateral moraine since 2009 🪨❄️
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MACHINE LEARNING PUTS 1.5°C AT 2033 & 2°C 2050
(SSP3-7.0 near current scenario)
HIGH IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE NEXT 3 DECADES
30 Jan. 2023 "results provide further evidence high-impact climate change over next three decades"
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10 . #globalwarming #climatechange
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since 1971, Greenland has lost ice equivalent in weight with 4 (correction) Million Empire State Buildings 🤯
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I think its meaning depends on one's perspective. Do you have a constructive suggestion?
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Replying to @climate_ice
This kind of comparisons mean nothing.
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Terrible news that scientist Professor Will Steffen has died. This amazing man spent his career trying to wake us up to the planetary crisis we are facing. Please watch, share and join the fight to force political action. His words speak for themselves youtu.be/9RsTcjRPQ-w
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Earth calling climate twitter. It’s an understatement that deserves many more followers and its videos many more views and subscribers
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It’s time to focus on growth in human (and natural) wellbeing rather than growth in GDP …Earth4All's systems dynamics youtu.be/rm2SAhIZrEE via
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new publication: An Improved Retrieval of Snow and Ice Properties Using Spaceborne OLCI/S-3 Spectral Reflectance Measurements: Updated Atmospheric Correction and Snow Impurity Load Estimation mdpi.com/2025740 #Sentinel3
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Asked ChatGPT how we can fight climate denialism.
The response was better than anything I could have written.
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A textbook ice avalanche here. Precursory signals before the collapse ‼️, disintegration of the structure 🎳 and transformation from solid mechanics 🧊 to fluid dynamics 🌊 - granular flow ❄️ - and finally: formation of a suspended powder cloud ❄️🌬💨.
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‘Arctic Warning’ is here! – a new Climate Series that connects Business and Politics with Younger Generations hosted by
& Gail Whiteman
#climatechange #savethearctic
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WE ARE NOT WINNING. Former Vice President of the USA says the people who run our world and economy are driving us towards global cataclysm. Where are our cultural and political leaders? They need to raise the alarm and demand action NOW #ClimateEmergency ox.ac.uk/news/2021-08-0
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How to explain degrowth, feat ChatGPT. 🧵
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What would a degrowth transformation entail?
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The data presented here are based on field measurements, hard work by generations of intrepid glaciologists. 🫡 The World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zürich gathers and serves the data #WGMS
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Like most glaciers, this one has had an increasing deficit, accelerated loss
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Cumulative for the previously shown glacier. The period of mass gain is well known to be caused by a persistent circulation pattern that delivered extra snow
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These data, not cumulative like the first plot, re: ‘tipping points’ concept, a glacier can have extremes, fluctuating around balance, like the road runner who can go off the cliff but run back…glaciers too can resist loss but not for extended periods…
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Arctic glaciers tipping - 1/n
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Good climate news this week
1 England bans single-use plastic
2 EU to tackle greenwashing
3 US DOE arm in $394b for cleantech
4 EU awards €1.8b to 16 cleantechs
5 Germany plans 30GW offshore wind by 2030
6 Brazil raids illegal deforestation
7 hydrogen-powered plane in world-1st twitter.com/AssaadRazzouk/
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#wef23 World economic failure - 1/n - when the WEF does not make sustainability the central organizing principle of talks
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#wef23 World economic failure - 1/n - the idea of perpetual growth on a finite planet
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#wef23 World economic failure - 1/n - when the economic system externalizes human suffering
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#wef23 World economic failure - 1/n - when the economic system externalizes ecosystem destruction
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#wef23 World economic failure - 1/n - when the economic system externalizes land fertility degradation
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A good day is a moniski day 😉
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NEW: In today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.
📰No pay wall for 2 weeks: bit.ly/ExxonKnew2poin
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If you were worried about fossil fuel industry influence on COP27, then hold on to your freaking hat for COP28
Mobilization starts now
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Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree.
Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California 🇺🇸 that was measured at 115.92 m.
It ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree.🌲
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