#Science #Research #ClimateCrisis #Antartica #Glaciers When he saw the 75-mile wide ice front of the remote Thwaites Glacier looming out of the Amundsen Sea for the first time in 2019, ice researcher James Kirkham felt a sense of foreboding. “It was about four or 5 in the morning and just getting light, and then out of the gloom emerges this humongous wall of ice stretching for kilometers,” said Kirkham, who was on a research cruise aboard the United States Antarctic Program’s Nathaniel B. Palmer, collecting seafloor sediment samples from closer to the edge of the floating ice than ever before.

New Research from Antarctica Affirms the Threat of the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ but Funding to Keep Studying It Is Running Out - Inside Climate News

#Futurology #Simplicity #ClimateCrisis Just received notice that the Simplicity Institute has just published a new book, called Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition. This book was authored by Emeritus Professor Paul Hoggett. A short article introducing the themes of this book has just been published on the Post Carbon Institute's website, Resilience, available here. At the link you'll find places to access the book both in ebook and paperback. It is available as an ebook on a 'pay what you can' basis (including for free, just edit the price as you see fit). Paradise Lost? is also available in paperback via most major online distributors. Again, see the link here to access the article and access/purchase options. Congratulations to Paul for this fine contribution to the literature that grapples with one of the defining issues of our time. 

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