Glaciers and Climate Change - Mike Hambrey

Date: 
Tue, 08/11/2016 - 19:00 to Fri, 29/03/2024 - 08:48
Venue: 
Friends Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Penrith CA11 7TR
Organisation: 
PACT

Mike Hambrey

We are very pleased to have Professor Michael Hambrey speak to us on glaciers and climate change.
Free - but donations requested. Refreshments available.
Please car share or walk/cycle to this event. Please contact us if you can car share from the Keswick area please.

The talk will consider the role climate change plays in the state of health of glaciers and ice sheets, and why this matters to humanity. We will consider the global distribution of glaciers, and how they are responding to global warming, in particular in raising sea levels. We then focus on Antarctica, which is by far the largest mass of ice on the planet. This region has the longest detailed climatic records of the past, which are important for predicting the future.

We will then make a link with Cumbria, an area where glacial erosion and deposition, and past climate change are recorded in the landscape. Given the association of climate change and flooding, we will look briefly at the impact of Storm Desmond on the glacial landscape around Keswick, and the issues arising therefrom.

Finally, we will explore what the future holds for glaciers and ice sheets, The speaker will conclude with some personal observations that stress the need for urgent action on climate change at both an individual and political level.

The talk is richly illustrated with the speakers' own photographs, taken in many parts of the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Calving and rapidly receding glacier in Svalbard (Norwegian High Arctic)
Calving and rapidly receding glacier in Svalbard (Norwegian High Arctic)

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