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Tackling the Ice Emergency: Climate Ambition is not enough to avert catastrophic impacts of “global boiling”

On By iqiceblogIn Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate1 Comment

It’s been a big week for climate, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets around the globe as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hosted a Climate Ambition Summit on 20 September in the middle of Climate Week NYC and the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Just 10 weeks before …

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Featured Photo: Ted Scambos, University of Colorado, Boulder, NSDIC. CMp on Thesited Glacier

A Sign of the TIME(s)? Why ice researchers count among the world’s most influential people

On By iqiceblogIn Antarctic, Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate3 Comments

Climate change is impacting the frozen regions of our planet faster and more seriously than expected. The naming of two ice scientists as amongst the world's most influential people shows growing recognition of the key role played by the cryosphere and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect it.