The West Antarctic is currently chucking a load of ice into the ocean, adding rapidly to sea levels.

And now, three new scientific studies have shown that the ice sheets may be more sensitive to warming than previously thought. These new findings could revise our sea level rise estimates upwards.

I spoke to Dr Alex Bradley, who was involved in two of these new studies, about what this means, and why it doesn’t mean we should give up on climate action. Speaking of which...

*What can I do?*

Here are some ideas:

https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/cl...

https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/here-are-...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-action-...

Watch the full interview with Dr Bradley here:   / 107468701  

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Contents:

00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Sea level rise
01:51 - West Antarctica
03:09 - Processes
05:39 - Ice sheet models
06:33 - Thwaites
08:50 - Tipping points
10:31 - Our actions still matter

#Antarctic #ClimateChange

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References

Rignot et al. (2024) https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...

Bett et al. (2024) https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/18...

Bradley & Hewitt (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

Slater et al. (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

Siegert et al. (2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

https://science.feedback.org/sea-leve...

https://www.science.org/content/artic...

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