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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Sep 11

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Donate to Support Senobia's Battle Against Cancer, organized by Baker Perry

Senobia Llusco, one of the Bolivian Cholitas Escaladoras who has been an integral … Baker Perry needs your support for Support Senobia's Battle Against Cancer

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Jun 26

A rather disappointing article in the guardian, presenting a one pretty sided review of geoengingeering solutions to climate change. The scientific community needs to do more to vocally challenge these ideas and promote cutting carbon to combat climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mirrors in space and underwater curtains: can technology buy us enough time to save the Arctic ice caps?

A conference in Cambridge this week will explore a raft of geoengineering ideas to cool the region down – and attempt to address the fears of those who argue the risks outweigh the benefits

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jun 19

Is the UK hot right now?

YES - it's hot!

Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day.

istheukhotrightnow.com

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Jun 12

Can anyone recommend a funding source for a small work package for AntarcticGlaciers focused on celebrating the role of women, indigenous peoples and minoritised people in arctic exploration? I am looking for £3-5k.

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Jun 9

Heading back from Nice. Where I donned my weatherman look to present my synthesis of the challenges and milestones for UNESCOs Decade of Cryospheric Sciences.

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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.bsky.social · May 20

Scientists show that +1.5 °C is far too warm for Earth's ice sheets and will result in several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries, extensive loss and damage to coastal populations and will challenge the implementation of adaptation measures

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment

Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...

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Remy Veness @remyveness.bsky.social · May 16

New paper presenting the potential sensitivity of erratic dispersals to changes in ice flow direction. We present evidence of a 1 km ice divide shift causing a 180 degree flip in dispersal direction, demonstrating potential as a test of model flow geometry.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A map showing modelled erratic dispersal from Glen Fyne in Scotland. Dispersal flows both east and west aligning with observations of glacial erratics.

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · May 16

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How rocks got to where they got to. @remyveness.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social

Modelling erratic dispersal accounting for shifting ice flow geometries: A new method and explanations of erratic dispersal of the British–Irish Ice Sheet

Glacial erratics are geologically distinctive rocks transported away from their source area by ice sheets and deposited in lithologically different bedrock areas. They have attracted much scientific ...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Apr 28

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

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Chris D Clark @chrisdclark.bsky.social · Apr 24

Geomorphology signature of ice shelf breakup during British ice sheet collapse in last glacial. What a great set of comb marks they are check out the pics

James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature Communications

Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...

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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bas.ac.uk

Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature Communications

Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...

www.nature.com

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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · Apr 24

With huge thanks to all authors who made this work possible inc. (on here):
@polarrobs.bsky.social @jeremyely.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social @scottpolar.bsky.social

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Apr 22

Deplete and Retreat is proud to formally be a part of the ACCORD AccelNet network: www.accelnet-accord.com/index.html @jeremyely.bsky.social @owenking.bsky.social

Home

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Apr 10

Now open for discussion, models of the evolution of Greenland over the past 24,000 years: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

The Greenland-Ice-Sheet evolution over the last 24,000 years: insights from model simulations evaluated against ice-extent markers

Abstract. Continental ice sheets possess a long-term memory that is stored within both the geometry and thermal properties of ice. In Greenland, this causes a disequilibrium between the present-day ic...

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Mar 22

Back from Paris (not Blackpool) for the launch of the decade of action on the Cyrosphere world glacier day with some of the Deplete and Retreat gang.

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Mar 21

To celebrate this first ever World Day of the Glacier, and to highlight the role of climate change in shrinking the glaciers of the Andes, we are delighted to produce a first Deplete and Retreat Policy Brief on the future of the Andean water towers. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/03/poli...

Policy brief: The future of the Andes Water Towers - AntarcticGlaciers.org

The Deplete and Retreat team are delighted to be attending the first ever celebration for International Day of the Glacier in Paris, at the UNESCO HQ, in March 2025. We will be hosting a side event, e...

www.antarcticglaciers.org

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's International Year of Glacier Preservation and the inaugural World Glacier Day. But why should we preserve these glaciers? from.ncl.ac.uk/why-should-w....

Why should we preserve glaciers?

Newcastle University experts explain why glaciers are vital and how we can help preserve them, marking World Water Day and the first World Day for Glaciers.

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy world glacier day. Here's some stuff about glaciers in the Andes www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/03/poli...

Policy brief: The future of the Andes Water Towers - AntarcticGlaciers.org

The Deplete and Retreat team are delighted to be attending the first ever celebration for International Day of the Glacier in Paris, at the UNESCO HQ, in March 2025. We will be hosting a side event, e...

www.antarcticglaciers.org

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Mar 20

To clarify, its a proper suit, not my birthday suit. Don't let that put you off joining our session.

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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hijma et al provide a high resolution reconstruction of sea level change during the early Holocene from the North Sea. They find there were two periods of relatively high sea level rise, at around 10.3 and 8.3 ka. ⚒️🧪🦣 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats - Nature

An early Holocene sea-level curve based on data from the North Sea reveals two phases of accelerated sea-level rise owing to meltwater from the North American and Antarctic ice sheets.

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · Mar 19

We are now in Paris, where we're convening to celebrate the first World Day of the Glacier. Tomorrow there is a celebration at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, and we are hosting a side event to shine a light on the plight of the cryosphere. Join here, for free:
www.un-glaciers.org/en/articles/...

Side-event 3: A vanishing mountain cryosphere and its importance to the water cycle under climate change

This in-person side-event is part of the official program for the celebration of the first World Day for Glacier and World Water Day on 20-21 March 2025.

www.un-glaciers.org

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Jeremy Ely @jeremyely.bsky.social · Mar 19

I'm at UNESCO tomorrow. On a panel for about glacier preservation. Isn't that how everyone celebrates their birthday?
You can witness the rare event of me wearing a suit by registering here:
unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 18

Dear BBC - none of these answers are correct.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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