Category: Greenland

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COP30: Only highest possible ambition can cut global damage from accelerating ice loss

On By iqiceblogIn Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate, Greenland1 Comment

Given the heated times we live in, (in all the senses of the word) it was highly unlikely that this year's State of the Cryosphere Report would bring good news about the impacts of climate warming on our frozen regions. Global ice loss is not letting up any time soon. On the contrary. Ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, ice and snow loss is accelerating. If anything should convince the delegates attending COP30 in Brazil of the need for ambitious and urgent action, this latest assessment of the state of our frozen regions should. This is not just about ice and snow. As the Report's title says: Ice Loss = Global Damage.

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Can we reclaim the narrative in a world abandoning climate protection?

On By iqiceblogIn Allgemein, Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate, Greenland2 Comments

Whether you look at science or news reports of weather extremes across the globe, there can be no doubt climate warming is already playing havoc with our livels. So why is the willingness to do something about it decreasing? How can we bridge the huge gap between the threat we face from climate change and the lack of action to respond?

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Bonn to Baku – cryosphere in crisis – where’s the hope for the world’s icy regions?

On By iqiceblogIn Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate, Greenland1 Comment

Six months after the last underwhelming UN climate conference COP28 in oil-rich Dubai, negotiators at the UN's climate headquarters in Bonn, Germany, have been trying to smooth the path to the next COP to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November. Another mega-gathering in another fossil-fuel capital - is there any hope of action to protect the world's rapidly melting ice and snow and avert the catastrophic consequences for the rest of the globe?

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“Greenland ice safe after all”? “Antarctic ice melt no longer stoppable”? Don’t be fooled – we can and we must limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

On By iqiceblogIn Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate, Greenland2 Comments

“It's too late to stop Antarctic ice melt.” But “the Greenland ice sheet might be more resistant to warming than we thought”, according to various recent studies. So should we stop worrying? Or give up on climate action? As we speed towards this year's UN Climate Conference COP28, to be held in – of all places - oil-rich Dubai, while wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine are distracting attention from the planet-threatening climate crisis, what we need is not complacency or resignation but a heightened sense of urgency.

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Greenland to Glasgow: Arctic SOS to Climate COP26 as scientists demand urgent action to slow ice loss and avert sea-level and weather catastrophe.

On By iqiceblogIn Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate, Greenland7 Comments

Top scientists working on the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic climate change issued an urgent message. The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than ever, with catastrophic implications for global sea level and the world's weather – and only rapid and substantial action can slow the pace.