Dr. Twila Moon

Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...

Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!

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Liking the coverage, disliking the cuts. 😠

Thanks for highlighting this excellent article. Evan Howell did a super job talking to many glaciologists! 👏

How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.

There are many uncertainties in this article except this one: "Worldwide, some 230 million people live less than a meter above sea level, and 1 billion people are within 10 meters of sea level." www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-wil...

CIRES' Twila Moon establishes new role in climate communications CIRES researcher Twila Moon will train mid-career professionals in climate education workshops across the United States.

#ICYMI, last spring, @nsidc.bsky.social Deputy Lead Scientist @drtwilamoon.bsky.social expanded her role at CIRES as the institute's first-ever climate communications engagement lead. buff.ly/HSsheIy #engage #climate #science

The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise.

The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.

I think this might be as close as you can get to a taste of what For Winter was. It was such a fantastic film!
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But doesn't look good to see these adding up...
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Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.

Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.

"climate and environment are no longer priorities"

What an abysmal statement when geography so fundamentally IS climate and environment. 😣

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

The disappearance of the inspiring science adventure film "For Winter" was crushing. Read the article (shorturl.at/02nDR) and...
➡️ Follow and support the amazing Alison Criscitiello
➡️ Tell National Geographic Society this is not OK and recalibrate your relationship with them.
➡️ Tell others.

Climate change isn't a separate story -- it is part of the stories you are already telling.

🗓️Wednesday, October 22 | 2pm ET

Join for a conversation on how to make climate context seamless and engaging from on-air to social platforms.

🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Kalaallit Nunaat Qaffappoq (Greenland Rising) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Pinngortitaleriffik (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources)

Research, teach, or communicate about #Greenland science (in English, Danish, or Greenlandic)?

➡️ StoryMap about fjord bathymetry and ecosystem, environment, people connections. Including as Greenlanders respond to potential *lowering* local sea levels.
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@lamont.columbia.edu

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience ‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

When floodwaters hit remote Alaska villages, recovery isn’t as simple as fixing up a home in the Lower 48.

No roads. No hardware stores. Winter closing in.

Families are facing impossible choices after Typhoon #Halong.

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#Indigenous

So excited!...

➡️ To get climate science foundations to professionals who need them. More about Engage Climate Science soon!

➡️ Set an example for scientist+communicator jobs. These should be all over research and academia. More please!

#science #climate

Thanks! Delighted by the old twitter vibe already. 😁

@agu.org, the world's largest Earth and space science association, honors Jen Kay, Twila Moon, and Jennifer Balch with prestigious awards! Read: buff.ly/zYiL76Y .

Shutdown, Trump budget threaten popular sea ice website Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions.

From E&E News by @Politico.com: "Shutdown, Trump budget threaten popular sea ice website." Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center at @CIRES.colorado.edu. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions. www.eenews.net/articles/shu...

Climate Portal Guide | Aspen Global Change Institute

Website worth knowing: The Aspen Global Change Institute's User Guide to Climate Change Portals.

www.agci.org/projects/cli...

#climate #climateresources

Website worth knowing: www.climateliteracy.earth

#climateeducation #climateliteracy

Essentially reading if you want to understand the feedback loops accelerating the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is contributing to global sea level rise.

By Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist @nsidc.bsky.social & researcher at @cires.colorado.edu

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
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How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

Even exploring the table of contents for this @quantamagazine.bsky.social issue about climate science is enjoyable. www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
#climatescience #climate

Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

New paper out today led by Martin Siegert with about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed Polar #Geoengineering schemes for ice sheets, sea ice and solar radiation are potentially dangerous and unethical.

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Still running into misinformation from the problematic DOE report & EPA proposal? Scientists @nsidc.bsky.social provided a short spotlight to convey *scientifically factual* information about sea ice, sea level rise, and more. nsidc.org/news-analyse...
#climate #sealevelrise #science

Impacts of AMOC Collapse on Monsoon Rainfall: A Multi‐Model Comparison A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would cause a major rearrangement of all tropical monsoon systems Four state-of-the-art climate models show remarkable agreeme...

Read together: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) influences equatorial wind patterns (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone) & tropical monsoons (doi.org/10.1029/2023... @agu.org). ITCZ affects nutrient delivery to eastern Pacific (doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @pnas.org).
#ConnectedEarth

Research highlight for iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
- Extreme runoff events increasing across all Arctic land ice areas (1990-2020).
- Especially notable increase in Western Arctic (Greenland, Ellesmere Island, Devon Island).
- Implications for ocean ecosystems and ocean circulation.
#Arctic

Basal Melt Rate Variability and Tidal Current Vertical Structure From Observations Beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica Melt rate variability on spring-neap timescales is driven by fortnightly variations in both current speed and thermal driving Enhanced influence of ice base friction on the semidiurnal tidal elli...

Papers to read together... Tides influencing #Antarctic ice shelf basal melting (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @agu.org) and tides allowing sea water infiltration where the ice sheet meets the ocean (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org).
#tides #ocean #ice #ConnectedEarth

Just arriving here. Let the adventure begin.

Expect: ice, climate science, quirky notes and insights.