Polar Climate Scientist researching Antarctic sea ice @BAS_news; mum of two. All views my own.
St Neots, England
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For various reasons, September has been hard. Thanks to @XanderArmstrong @ClassicFM this morning for restoring my soul (Widor, Barber AND Tchaikovsky)
Dr Caroline Holmes 🌊❄️ retweeted
Interviewed by @TimesRadio today on ocean warming and Antarctic sea ice.
To be welcomed onto live radio as a person who stammers, and for stammering to not be the subject of the interview or indeed a big deal to anybody involved, feels pretty good indeed.
"If the ocean decides to release the heat to the atmosphere like this year, that leads to more rapid atmosphere warming," @kaitlinnaughten tells @alexisconran.
She warns record sea ice loss in Antarctica has the potential to further warm our oceans.
@TimesRadio | @BAS_News
Dr Caroline Holmes 🌊❄️ retweeted
Today is #EarthOvershootDay
🌍 Today marks the date when “humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year!”
Basically we’ve used all of Earth resources for the year and now we depete it!😢
Dr Caroline Holmes 🌊❄️ retweeted
The current level of Antarctic sea ice is beyond anything in the last 120 years.
#Antarctica #ClimateCrisis
#Antarctic #seaice : GREAT video disentangling the jargon and some of the issues around sigmas etc. (similar vibe to my 🧵 but easier to follow!) - I agree that '1 in ... million' is
✅v. helpful to conceptualize
⁉️ pushing what the data can tell us
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Dr Caroline Holmes 🌊❄️ retweeted
#Antarctica is currently missing an area of ice bigger than Greenland. It's clear that we're seeing an extraordinary event unfolding.
So, you've seen the graphs: what do they mean?
Find out in our @ConversationUK article with @CHolmesClimate
theconversation.com/antarcti…
Dr Caroline Holmes 🌊❄️ retweeted
Here’s a really useful story on Antarctic sea ice from @readfearn to add to the thread of explainers theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
#Antarctic #seaice there's widespread discussion about the sea ice anomaly and what it means statistically and physically, and some good discussions, but I think some key graphs need showing *together* so here goes (1/15 🧵)
Next, to go from '5-sigma' to '1 in 7.5 million years': we have to assume a "normal distribution"; i.e. that the probability of something (sea ice) having a certain value follows a certain set of rules. If sea ice doesn't, then '1 in 7.5 million' could be way off. (14/15)