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   Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 16:17:31 JST Ruth Mottram

   It matters where the water comes from.

   Why does the loss of ice in Antarctica affect Northern Europe more than melt in Greenland?

   Apparently, many people are confused about how global and local sea level rise are not the same so I wrote a brief blog post to try and explain it.

   Posting again for the European morning crowd..

   #ClimateDiary #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange
   #Antarctica #Greenland #iceSheet

   http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/02/28/local-sea-level-rise-a-question-of-gravity/

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 07:13:02 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @Ruth_Mottram

     #ClimateChange #PolarIce #TippingPoints

     Hi Ruth,

     I can't think of a more adequate person to ask the following.
     This post states that "the #Arctic #OceanIce is *not* considered to be a tipping point anymore."

     True?

     https://gruene.social/@herdsoft/112022333257050344

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     Julius Garbe (juliusgarbe@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 05:36:12 JST Julius Garbe

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol

     As @Ruth_Mottram points out, the answer to your question depends heavily on the used definition of the ‘tipping point’ term.
     It is indeed true that in the latest assessment of tipping points, the Global Tipping Points Report 2023, Arctic sea ice is not considered to be a tipping system. See this table from the report: https://global-tipping-points.org/section1/1-earth-system-tipping-points/1-2-tipping-points-in-the-cryosphere/1-2-2-current-state-of-knowledge-on-cryosphere-tipping-points/

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