Climate 🌡️ | Glaciology 🧊 | Science diplomacy 🗺️ | Policy 📜
Chief Science Advisor and Coordinator of the ‘Ambition on Melting Ice’ high level group on Sea-Level Rise and Mountain Water Resources
https://ambitionmeltingice.org/membership/
James Kirkham
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BREAKING: UK govt is targeting 87% cut in emissions by 2040 under the 7th "carbon budget"
It says meeting this target will boost energy security, lower bills, create jobs and growth, improve quality of life – and tackle the "climate crisis"
You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions
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That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed.
A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
- Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
#AMOC #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The achievability of low-emission IPCC sea-level rise scenarios by @helenmillman.bsky.social
"‘low-end’ projections may underestimate the true pace and magnitude of future SLR. If we continue today’s mid-higher emissions pathway... more than 1 m by 2100 should be planned for."
tinyurl.com/murb3t6j
New paper out in Phil Trans R Soc A. We asked a simple question: are the IPCC’s lowest sea-level rise scenarios actually achievable? Short answer: probably not. 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...
🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Happy #EarthDay! 🌍
Today we are launching a white paper on Barriers to Glaciers-Related Financing.
As temperatures continue to rise, finance will be needed to respond to the impact of glacier loss on mountain 🗻 and water 🧊 ecosystems.
iccinet.org/glacier-fina...
"Ironically, amidst all the death and destruction he has wreaked, the “drill baby, drill” President may have done the green energy revolution a big favour."
iceblog.org/2026/04/29/r...
New article out: Antarctic science operations must account for climate change and extreme environmental events @bas.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03629-2
Europe is warming >2x as fast as the global average, reducing snow & ice cover. High air temperatures, drought, heatwaves & record ocean temperatures affect regions from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.
European State of Climate #ESOTC2025
Read more: bit.ly/ESOTC2025pr
Full report: bit.ly/ESOTC2025
Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...
doi.org
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
As extreme environmental events increase in Antarctica, scientific operations will face mounting challenges, as argued in this Perspective, which assesses potential impacts on research stations and ac...
Abstract. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 report (2021) provides a range of projections on greenhouse gas emissions and global war
Abstract. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 report (2021) provides a range of projections on greenhouse gas emissions and global war
As the European State of the Climate Report confirms the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth and Europe the fastest-warming continent, the US war on Iran has shown the danger of dependency…
