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 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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aboutme On staying local
Image credit: The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. In climate science, I’ve always worked with the big picture. First, global…
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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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Bayesian Place your bets: sea level rise from Antarctic ice sheet collapse
I have a few bits of happy news! The BBC’s program Climate Change by Numbers on which I was one of the…
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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…
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boxquote How to love uncertainty in climate science
This is the script of my TEDxCERN talk, a 12-13 minute talk I did from memory. When the video is put online…
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aboutme Open to positive feedback
I’m extremely happy to say that on the 1st October I’ll be taking up a lectureship at the Open University! I’ll be…
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ice2sea No need to worry about Greenland’s waterslides
We’ve had a new study published about the slippery slopes of Greenland. If we’re right they’re not as slippery – and therefore…
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ice2sea From Ice to High Seas
My project ice2sea is currently in the news. For example, the BBC: ‘Best estimate’ for impact of melting ice on sea level rise. Ice2sea…