
Dr James Kirkham
@jd_kirkham
Chief Science Advisor to Ambition on Melting Ice policy group on sea level rise and water resources
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Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in Nature Communications.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. 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4146…



Since 1976, Earth's glaciers have lost 9000 billion tonnes of water, contributing 25 mm to global sea-level rise Over 40 % of this loss has happened in the last decade... and 6 % occurred in 2023 alone in a record-shattering year of glacier ice loss essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/19…