2024 European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report

Key messages:
a)
#Europe experienced its warmest year, with the second highest number of heat stress days and tropical nights, on record.

b)
The area of Europe experiencing days with temperatures below freezing is decreasing, with the year seeing the largest area on record with fewer than three months (90 days) of frost days. The number of ‘cold stress days’ was the lowest on record.

c)
For the European region and for the Mediterranean Sea, the annual sea surface temperature was the highest on record. It was also the warmest year on record for European lakes.

d)
#Glaciers in #Scandinavia and #Svalbard saw their highest recorded annual rates of mass loss. They also saw the largest mass loss of any #glacier region globally.

e)
Western Europe saw one of the ten wettest years on record and Europe experienced the most widespread #flooding since 2013.

f)
The year saw a record proportion of electricity generation by renewables, at 45%

https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024

Report (PDF):
https://climate.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/custom-uploads/ESOTC-2024/press-resources/ESOTC-2024-report.pdf

#ClimateScience
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateChange
#ExtremWeather
#Copernicus

A meltwater channel emerging from a patch of soft, isothermal snow on College Glacier, with Peak 8100 rising in the background. This is exactly the kind of thing you don’t want to step into unaware—these channels can be deep and hidden beneath surface snow until they open up.

More about hike here: https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide/college-glacier-hiking-guide/

Ah, nothing to see folks, it's all fine. Move along, move along...

Impending disintegration of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf https://aluckman4.wixsite.com/ade-s-world-of-ice/post/impending-disintegration-of-thwaites-eastern-ice-shelf #thwaites #glacier #remoteimaging

#WorldWaterDay 2025: History, Significance, And Importance Of #Glacier Preservation For Future #WaterSecurity

"Every year on March 22, the world comes together to observe World Water Day, a significant occasion dedicated to raising awareness about freshwater conservation and its sustainable management. The day serves as a call to action, reinforcing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal, which aims to ensure clean water and sanitation for all by 2030.

"As we mark World Water Day 2025, let’s take a deeper look into its history, significance, this year’s theme, and the crucial role of glacier preservation in securing the future of global water supplies."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/nutrition/world-water-day-2025-history-significance-and-importance-of-glacier-preservation-for-future-water-security/ar-AA1BqtZU
#WaterIsLife #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ArcticWarming #OceansAreLife

Glacial Melting Is Accelerating, Driving Sea Level Rise and Depleting Freshwater: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/glaciers-melting-sea-level-rise-freshwater-depletion.html

Glacier Melt Intensifying Freshwater Loss And Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
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https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Glacier_melt_intensifying_freshwater_loss_and_accelerating_sea-level_rise <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #GlacierMassBalanceIntercomparison #glacial #glacier #global #cryosphere #regional #freshwater #water #resources #waterresources #watersecurity #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #rate #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #loss #massloss #greenland #antarctic #icesheet #anthropogenic #climatechange #melt #melting #risk #hazard #geohazard #geology #engineeringgeology #marine #terrestrial #ecosystems #watercycle #masschange #insitu #remotesensing #local #observation #model #modeling #projection

Inside a glacier cave under the Canwell Glacier in the Alaska Range, looking out through a small entrance framed by deep blue ice. This incredible cave collapsed a couple of years ago, but new ones are always forming in the lower moraine of the glacier.

My hiking guide to the area: https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide/canwell-glacier-and-rainbow-basin/

Exploring underneath glaciers is addicting and exciting. Each cave is unique, you'll never know what you might find!

Taken August, 2023

#Shocking new satellite images show massive fracture has rapidly formed at the #Thwaites #glacier in #Antarctica (aka the #Doomsday glacier). Leading #scientist says increased probability of #ice shelf #collapse in next three months during Southern hemisphere #summer. #news #climate #science

La célèbre Mer de Glace, située dans le massif du Mont-Blanc, doit son nom à sa surface tumultueuse : comme des vagues qui auraient été gelées en plein mouvement. Après divers reculs et avancées depuis la fin de la Glaciation de Würm, elle a perdu depuis 1830 2,5 km de longueur et plus de 150 m d'épaisseur.

Télécharger l'image en HD : https://phototheque.cnes.fr/cnes/media/84567

CNES / Distribution Airbus DS, 2023

Could climate change bring more earthquakes?

@abc explores the impact of melting glaciers: https://flip.it/8UeHUP

Glacial Lake Floods - A Growing, Unpredictable Climate Risk
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https://phys.org/news/2023-10-glacial-lake-unpredictable-climate.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36033-x <-- shared paper
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-024-00554-w <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #climatechange #spatiotemporal #glaciallakeoutburstflood #GLOF #risk #hazard #water #hydrology #flood #flooding #risk #hazard #mitigation #publicsafety #global #river #melting #dam #ice #naturaldisaster #naturalhazard #breach #highmountain #Asia #Pakistan #China #Nepal #population #vulnerability #glacier #glacial #loss #infrastructure #loss #cost #death #injury #model #modeling #Alaska #Asia #NewZealand #Iceland #model #modeling

1kg CO2 ultimately melts 650 kg of glacial ice. Wow. And communicating it in kilos opens a whole new can o' beans in terms of palpable imagination, too close to home for comfort.

@KenCaldeira
: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-much-ice-is-melted-by-each-carbon-dioxide-emission/

Two examples:
1 cup of coffee = 400gr CO2 = 260 kg of glacial ice. *

1kg of pizza = 19kg of CO2 = 12.3 t of glacial ice. **

* #Poore et al 2019 https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf

** #Irz et al 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251236631_Inter-household_variations_in_environmental_impact_of_food_consumption_in_Finland

Columbia Icefield Glacier Hwy 93 Icefields Parkway Jasper National Park, Alberta Canada

The Columbia Icefield Glacier Highway, known officially as Highway 93 or the Icefields Parkway, stretches approximately 232 kilometers between Jasper and Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/columbia-icefield-glacier-hwy-93-icefields-parkway-jasper-national-park-alberta-canada-wayne-moran.html

#Glacier #ColumbiaIcefieldGlacier #banff #jasper #alberta #canada #NationalPark #hike #photography #landscape #Travel

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-glacier-volcanoes/

Cool webstory by Reuters about future Iceland's and global volcanic eruptions to be triggered by retreating glaciers, when the weight of the ice is no longer keeping a lid on magma chambers.
Apart from neat writing, it's with video, lotsa photos, animated charts and everything one can think of to be included in #scicomm

tldr: yes, volcanic eruptions will increase with the retreat of glaciers. #Antarctica's volcanos too. #Earthquake activity has already been picking up in Iceland since 2021, also elsewhere in the #Arctic near glaciers, and around the globe.

It has happened before when Earth crawled out of the last #iceage into the #Holocene.

I might add: it happened not only at volcanos near glaciers. Rising #sealevel has triggered near-coastal volcanos, too, whether above or below the water. IIRC, a study on Stromboli proved it.

I personally think, #HungaTonga's eruption could have been one of the first submarine volcanos to have been triggered by #climateChange Another submarine volcano erupted near Japan in 2021 or 2022, forgot its name, starts with an O...
Not as huge an explosion like Hunga Tonga tho.