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Think the Unthinkable. (1) States need to start international cooperation on climate change and SARS-CoV-2 in the next three years. (2) Links update weekly to daily (COVID-19/climate).
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data_current/5…
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/global/nc/?-so…
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1. Don't ask me how the outbreak.info tracking works; I just took a @T_Brautigan link and hit buttons at random until it roughly made sense. (There's 100% better ways to display this.) Legend:
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ICYMI we are witnessing, via satellite imagery, sudden collapse of key glacial fronts of @antarctica . This...
And here, we see Eastern @antarctica glacial collapse
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
And further @antarctica glacial system calving and sudden melt zmescience.com/ecology/climat…
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1/ 2021 was a train wreck for my personal life, but it was pretty great for me professionally - so in the spirit of optimism, here’s a little thread of the highlights.
2/ @c2kittel and I wrote a neat little GRL paper about the fate of #Antarctic ice shelves at various levels of warming

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…
3/ It was widely reported in the media and we also wrote some articles in @CarbonBrief: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the…

… and @ConversationUK : theconversation.com/antarcticas-ic…
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Eigentlich müsste ich was über den #Thwaites-Gletscher schreiben, denn nach meinem Eindruck hat niemand hier gerallt, was dort gerade passiert.

Aber ich bin leider zu beschäftigt mit meiner Forschungsarbeit.

Deshalb vorerst nur ein Thread:
Der Thwaites-Gletscher in der Antarktis ist größer als Tschechien, Österreich und die Schweiz zusammen, schon jetzt schmilzt er ab und ist damit für 4% des globalen Meeresspiegelanstiegs verantwortlich.
Nun haben Forscher*innen der American Geophysical Union allerdings riesige diagonale Risse quer durch das Schelfeis gefunden, die immer schneller wachsen. Die Prognose: In den kommenden fünf Jahren könnte die Eismasse schlagartig kollabieren. Was würde das bedeuten?
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Hère we are… Enfin, pas tout de suite, mais l’élastique est tendu.



La plateforme orientale du glacier #Thwaites, qui constitue le prolongement sur la mer du glacier et de l’inlandsis principal, menace de s’effondrer et de se briser en des centaines d'icebergs.

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Jusqu'à ce jour, cette partie orientale de Thwaites semblait la plus solide, mais des images satellites prises le mois dernier montrent plusieurs grandes fissures diagonales à sa surface.
Et ça n'est pas vraiment une bonne nouvelle...

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Des scientifiques sont constamment à son chevet et ils ont constaté que la mer, de + en + plus chaude, est en train de rogner la glace qui le maintient sur le fond rocheux sous-marin, faisant apparaître des fissures et des écoulements de plus en plus importants au-dessus.

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RT this [THREAD] of articles if you'd like to ask Twitter's most popular UK political commentators - the vast majority of whom seldom or never mention the Ecological Emergency - for analysis of the politics of catastrophic #ClimateBreakdown, #MassExtinction & #EcologicalCollapse.
Dear @jonsnowC4 @peston @bbclaurak @bbcnickrobinson @afneil

'we could be looking at an epic extinction event, caused by ourselves, which could include exterminating our own species, or at least what we call “civilization,” in as little as nine years.'

counterpunch.org/2017/02/10/loo…
Hi @OwenJones84 & @paulmasonnews

'We are already facing mass extinction. There is no removing the heat we have introduced into the oceans, nor the 40bn tons of CO2 we pump into the atmosphere every single year. There may be no changing what is happening'

theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/…
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