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Just a scientist, standing above a boreal floodplain filled with boglands, asking you to respect and admire bogs. Keepers of carbon, cleaners of water, springboards of unique biodiversity - peatlands globally need our attention and protection.

Summer 2024 has been really tough for glaciers in Lapland! 😱🔥 Kebnekaise ice cap has lost 3.3 m and is now only 2089.9m high! Absurd loss given the high elevation! Sydtoppen was 2118m in 1996 and became lower than Nordtoppen in 2019. bolin.su.se/data/tarfala-s… Nina Kirchner

130 metres?!😱

Forni Glacier (Ortles-Cevedale Group, IT) 2005-2022 What's used to be largest italian glacier, before/after the three parts have split The eastern part (left) is not visible here Remnants of the 2020 rock avalanche well visible! 🪨 sites.unimi.it/glaciol/index.… Source CGL/R. Scotti

Swiss glaciers: another major ice volume loss despite much snow in winter! 2022: -5.9% 💥 2023: -4.4% 💥 2024: -2.4% ❄️💥 The GLAMOS report on the new measurements just released via SCNAT scnat.ch/en/id/GPLBt The suffering of #glaciers goes on... A thread (1/n)

Three years with tremendous ice melting have obliterated more than 12% of the Swiss ice volume. This leads to the decay and disintegration of large glacier tongues (e.g. Rhone), and the disappearance of many small glaciers (2/n) Animation: VAW Glaciology Enlaps

Locally, ice melt rates are hard to believe. Like here on Konkordiaplatz, in the middle of Great Aletschgletscher, on top of the thickest ice of the Alps. The 4m ice layer removed in 2024 is less extreme than in 2022 and 2023 but still twice as high as in the 1950-1980 avg (3/n)

The year 2023/2024 was special: we started off with excellent conditions for glaciers. At the end of May partly record snow cover was observed! Finally a good year? No, two hot summer months 🔥🔥 have rapidly turned the tide to above-average losses, once again... (4/n)

What's incredible is that Aug. 2024 was even the month with the highest glacier melt ever recorded since beginning of observations 110 yrs ago! 😳 Melt rate for the entire summer ranks 4th, after extreme yrs 2022, 2003 and 2023! 🔥😱 Data GLAMOS Matthias Huss

August 2024 Temperature Update The global average temperature in August 2024 was the warmest directly measured August. The 15th consecutive monthly to break or tie monthly temperature records. Almost certain that 2024 becomes the new warmest year. berkeleyearth.org/august-2024-te… 🧵

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Dying Zinal Glacier today, looks like a chameleon below its thick debris cover! ❄️🔥 The tongue will soon be cut in two by a rock cliff below Grand Cornier (R) ✂️ Point de Zinal (3790m) at background Insane sunny weather, for weeks now! 🙃

Latest NASA global temperature data. Earth has never been hotter since Homo sapiens discovered agriculture in the early Holocene. Likely even since 120,000 years ago. Fossil coal, oil and gas emissions caused it. We need to stop making it worse. Yes, we can if we want to. 🧵

"Humans have caused a global increase of 1.49 ± 0.11 °C relative to a pre-1700 baseline" estimated from a linear temperature and atmospheric CO2 relationship. Jarvis & Forster in Nature Geoscience nature.com/articles/s4156…

Is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? It should be a rather easy question to answer, but we all squirm and find it difficult due to the social pressures. Maybe crossing 1.5°C is the wake up call we need? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29… 1/

The goal of preventing temperatures from exceeding 1.5C is “deader than a doornail” as I told the Guardian (quoting James Hansen). We’ve simply waited too long to reduce global emissions, and now will firmly pass 1.5C in the next decade theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, has announced a three-year PhD scholarship in glacial archaeology. This is a great chance to work with our finds from the ice!🙂❄ More information (in Norwegian) here: khm.uio.no/om/organisasjo…

Climate change is leading to the melt of mountain ice worldwide. Join the archaeologists from the Secrets of the Ice program in the field, as they discover incredibly well-preserved prehistoric artefacts emerging from the ice in Innlandet County, Norway. youtube.com/watch?v=5ceQge…