Prof Jonathan Bamber on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica’s ‘weak underbelly’
“That area has been described by colleagues, and this is going back to the 1970s, as the ‘weak underbelly’ of west Antarctica.”
The Carbon Brief interview with Prof Jonathan Bamber, professor of glaciology at the University of Bristol and the current president of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
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