It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us.
Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this information.
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Contents
00:00 Intro
01:06 Who cares about the Amundsen Sea
01:58 What the study shows
03:06 Mechanisms of change
05:34 Can we trust it?
06:36 The link to sea level rise
07:02 Time to adapt
08:53 Why our actions DO matter
10:51 Courage vs hope
13:52 Thank yous
#ClimateChange #Antarctica
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References and resources
THE PAPER: Naughten et al. (2023) www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Kaitlin’s twitter thread: / 1716472710107222440
Kaitlin’s article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/increasin...
Coverage in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environme...
Commentary in Nature (Sohail, 2023): www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Carbon Brief on West Antarctic tipping points: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-pos...
Carbon Brief on tipping points in Pine Island Glacier: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-pos...
Reese et al. (2023) tc.copernicus.org/articles/17...
Hill et al. (2023) tc.copernicus.org/articles/17...
Armstrong McKay et al. (2022) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Garbe et al. (2020) www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Joughin et al. (2014) www.science.org/doi/abs/10.11...
Park et al. (2013) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Feldmann & Levermann (2015) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Joughin et al. (2021) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Morlighem et al. (2020) www.nature.com/articles/s4156...
Wiabel et al. (2018) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Sutter et al. (2023) www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Abrams et al. (2023) doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003250
Негізгі бет Ғылым және технология We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?
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