🧵🌊❄️ For the past week Antarctic sea-ice extent has closely tracked its decline through the same week in the previous record low year of 2023. The persistent low extent then was so far below anything recorded before that even experts were surprised and struggled to explain the sudden change.

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An interesting new study has examined 20,736 scientific publications about climate tipping points. Several of those are estimated to be crossed around 1.5 degrees warming, i.e. any time soon: permafrost thaw, Greenland Ice Sheet, North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. theconversation.com/some-climate...

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Authors and Gamemasters, today's world building question! Are there magical or supernatural geographic phenomenon in your world? #ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #worldbuilding #storydevelopment #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompts

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"This iconic watercolor cover was painted by Edward Wilson, the expedition’s chief scientist and a talented artist. It features the RRS Discovery, anchored in McMurdo Sound, backdropped by Mount Erebus emitting a plume of volcanic smoke. Emperor penguins stand in the foreground on the sea ice."❤️

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“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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