The cracks start without you noticing. You hadn’t been paying attention: you’d been looking at problems elsewhere, at more immediate emergencies. You…
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antarctica The things we take for granted
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antarctica The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenario
After the accidental disappearing of my blog (and, ironically, the temporary disappearance of that link), today is a minor “relaunch” with a…
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antarctica Polar Thinking
This is a good news, bad news story. I’ve been thinking about this theme a lot recently. So much of our…
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antarctica Too early to say whether the white cliffs of Antarctica are unstable
“Antarctica meltdown could double sea level rise”, went the headlines in 2016, “runaway melting” predicted by “alarming science”. They were reporting a…
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antarctica How soon will the ‘ice apocalypse’ come?
I’m very happy to return to blogging here at PLoS after a long…pause. I talk about why after this post, which was originally…
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antarctica Seeing Antarctica’s future more clearly
Are you a details person? Do you love to lose yourself in little things? To read every footnote of a book, watch…