In this Climate Chat episode, we interview glaciologist and climate scientist Eric Rignot about the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica (a.k.a., the Doomsday Glacier), the broader West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS), Greenland, and their impact on sea level rise.
Professor Rignot is a world-renowned glaciologist who studies the effects of global climate change on polar ice sheets. He uses satellites, airborne sensors, field data and numerical models to understand the dynamics of glacier ice along the coasts of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets as well as in Alaska and Patagonia. His research has documented major acceleration of ice loss as a result of climate change, and has been widely covered by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, National Geographic and many others. In addition to his appointment at the University of California at Irvine, he is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he leads several NASA-funded projects.
Eric's UCI page: https://ps.uci.edu/node/2110
Eric's JPL page: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/site/research/rignot/
Eric's Google Scholar page (research listing):
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IEEkR3gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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Dan Miller has been giving talks around the world on the need for urgent climate action for over 20 years. He is co-founder of The Roda Group, a climate-tech venture capital group, and he serves as an advisor for other climate funds and climate-focused non-profit groups. He started Climate Chat in 2021 on Clubhouse and added YouTube in 2023.
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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons
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