8 Nov 2023 #Antarctica #ClimateChange
It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us.

Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this information.

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Contents

00:00 Intro
01:06 Who cares about the Amundsen Sea
01:58 What the study shows
03:06 Mechanisms of change
05:34 Can we trust it?
06:36 The link to sea level rise
07:02 Time to adapt
08:53 Why our actions DO matter
10:51 Courage vs hope
13:52 Thank yous

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