James Kirkham

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

Shocking images of the shrinkage of Swiss glaciers

Switzerland's glaciers have lost 25% of their ice in the last 10 years

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The Greenlandification of Antarctica Nature Geoscience - Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of...

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social

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As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up? We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

First year sea ice forming floes in the Antarctic. Credit: Michael Nolan / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Svetlana Onye w/ comment from @zacklabe.com

Read here: buff.ly/TBQ7aL8

🆕 Four key parts of the Earth’s climate system are destabilising. Researchers analysed the interconnections of #Greenland ice sheet, #AMOC, #Amazon rainforest and the South American monsoon system. All four show signs of diminished resilience: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... @climtip.bsky.social

September 2025 update from Climate Action Tracker

Sep 2025 update. If globally adopted:

Critically Insufficient - policies are consistent with 4°C or more of heating
Highly Insufficient - On track for about 3–4°C
Insufficient - policies would lead to warming of 2–3°C
Almost Insufficient - policies would keep warming within the 2°C limit

Even subzero parts of the Arctic are thawing. Ancient salt is the culprit Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change’s transformation of the Arctic. https://scim.ag/46AxH2E

Trump spreading fossil fuel propaganda lies at the UN - what an embarrassing president for the US.

Meanwhile, back in the world of facts.
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Polar Geoengineering: A Risky Experiment That Will Not Fix Climate Change Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are w...

Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al:

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

"results were mixed. The LLM... effectively summed up commentary content... for a lay audience. However, it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity... extensive editing for hyperbole was needed... It also struggled to highlight more than one result from multifaceted studies."

Commentary: Sea curtains and glass beads? Zany climate ideas show how far off track we are Some proposals for climate cooling would require unprecedented levels of global cooperation and feats of engineering, says Lara Williams for Bloomberg Opinion.

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New report concludes polar geoengineering is dangerous But curiosity-driven stupidity may take us there

Plans to refreeze the Arctic have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. Authoritative analyses that conclude "needs further research" isn't likely to change that.

www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

Antarctica: Government opposed to polar geoengineering - Committees - UK Parliament The Environmental Audit Committee has published the Government’s response to the Committee’s report on ‘the UK and the Antarctic environment’.

The UK Government has clarified that it is opposed to polar #geoengineering

"This week a group of 42 polar scientists published analysis which found that proposed geoengineering techniques were not feasible and could even be “environmentally dangerous”.

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Government rules out plan to block out the sun after warning of ‘severe’ risks Announcement comes after more than 40 polar scientists warned ideas to slow polar ice loss were unrealistic, unaffordable and dangerous

Some good news.

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"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Counterpoint: The proposals are so preposterous and impossible that they show we must stop burning fossil fuels or everything's going to be terrible. There's no other way.

If anyone would like an easy lunchtime read (or has a swotty kid), there is a children’s version of this paper: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming - Inside Climate News New research by a team of top ice and climate scientists debunks some speculative technological climate fixes for preserving the polar ice caps.

More and more time, money and attention is going toward foolish and risky ventures that divert attention from cutting CO2 emissions ...

High-tech plans to save polar ice will fail, new research finds The plans could also unintentionally harm fragile polar ecosystems.

"Polar geoengineering proposals raise false hopes for averting some disastrous consequences of climate change without rapidly cutting,,emissions"

"They risk encouraging complacency about the urgency of achieving net zero or may be used by powerful actors as an excuse to justify continued emissions"

Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both

With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪

But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work

www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’ Climate research group says such ideas are diverting attention from cutting fossil fuel use Proposals to fight the impact of the climate crisis at the poles, from giant underwater curtains to scattering glass beads across the ice, have been dismissed by a group of scientists as an “unimaginably expensive” and “dangerous” distraction. Geoengineering, which includes blocking sunlight with airborne particles and thickening ice with pumped seawater, has become highly divisive among scientists. Its proponents argue that, with cuts in carbon emissions going far too slowly, exploring options for “emergency brakes” would be valuable. Continue reading...

Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’

Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.

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Our paper is out, providing alternative viewpoints to some polar geoengineering ideas covered in the media recently. Lots still to talk about but let's focus on decarbonising instead of drilling Antarctica for now? 🇦🇶
Thanks @newscientist.com @mjflepage.bsky.social for covering this important issue!

An ice sheet juts out into the ocean.

Geoengineering ideas to tackle #climate breakdown at the poles will not help and could harm, according to new research involving Professor Mike Bentley @mikebentley.bsky.social and Professor Chris Stokes of @geogdurham.bsky.social. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

It is disappointing though that coverage of the review by some prominent media outlets takes a false balance approach, giving equal space to the few maverick scientists and engineers who have been promoting these ideas.
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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...

🧪🧵A carefully considered review of the most prominent polar geoengineering concepts by a large international group of polar science experts concludes that they are dangerous distractions.
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Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’ Underwater curtains and artificial ice thickening divert attention from cutting fossil fuel use, says group of climate scientists

Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’

Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming - Inside Climate News New research by a team of top ice and climate scientists debunks some speculative technological climate fixes for preserving the polar ice caps.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0909202...

Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both

www.newscientist.com/article/2495...