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“Ground zero”: Why the warming Arctic must top the global agenda

On By iqiceblogIn Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate1 Comment

As we head into COP29 in oil-and-gas-rich Azerbaijan with the UN warning we are on course for up to 3°C of temperature rise, climate scientists are urging governments to focus on cryosphere. The frozen regions of our planet are warming several times faster than the global average. If the nations of the world cannot agree on measures to hold global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C, the experts warn of potentially devastating and irreversible impacts from cryosphere melt, not just for the icy north, but for the whole planet.

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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?