Link for John Moore HPAC presentation Thursday Jan. 8 at 1:00 pm EST HPAC on polar climate intervention and "local winners"

[Ron Baiman]

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to host John Moore will be presenting a talk on: "High latitude interventions to conserve the cryosphere must have local winners"   this Thursday Jan 8, 2026 at 1:00 pm EST.

Note that this talk will be earlier at 1:00 pm EST than our usual 5:30 pm EST!

The Zoom  link for the talk will also be different: 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ylFDVmw362TQmKxmmH1_NTlw7k-RHMS/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116465941111195452408&rtpof=true&sd=true 

We hope that you can make it!

Best,

Ron 

On behalf of the HPAC SC

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[Ron Baiman]

Oops - with edit and bio!  (I had to quickly get on my flight)

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On Jan 5, 2026, at 1:28 PM, Ron Baiman <rpba...@gmail.com> wrote:



Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to host John Moore whi will be presenting a talk on: "High latitude interventions to conserve the cryosphere must have local winners"   this Thursday Jan 8, 2026 at 1:00 pm EST.

Note that this talk will be earlier at 1:00 pm EST than our usual 5:30 pm EST!

John Moore is:

Research Professor at Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.  

Lead University of the Arctic Thematic Network in Frozen Arctic Conservation 

Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. 

 

Member of 6 Antarctic, 5 Greenlandic and 20 Svalbard scientific expeditions.

Led the Chinese geoengineering research program 2015-2022.

Authored over 200 articles ~26000 citations, H-index=69, 

19 articles published in PNAS & the "Nature" group. 

Research Activities: Climate-engineering. Sea level change. Ice sheet dynamics. Social-natural and indigenous-western science co-design of targeted interventions to conserve the cryosphere. 

[John Nissen]

Hi Ron,

The Meer talk, which many will want to listen to, is at 2 pm EST.  I met John at the Cambridge Arctic Repair conference in June, and would love to follow up with some questions.  Could you possibly start half an hour earlier?

(In moving house I mislaid my notes from the conference, so I haven't been able to follow anything up 😕)

Cheers, John

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[Ron Baiman]

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Note the overlap with Paul Gambill on MEER Talk that starts at 2pm EST.

Join MEER Talk Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83708894361?pwd=ikCO40610kcESfwXgrkPvyFabLtkKm.1

Regards

Robert

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[Ron Baiman]

Sorry John (and my apologies to MEER for this as I did not realize it would conflict), but the time was set long ago with John M and me, and sent out publicly  as well, so we (speaking for myself anyway - I’m in FL and have commitments this afternoon) really can’t change it.

Best,

Ron

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On Jan 8, 2026, at 9:36 AM, Ron Baiman <rpba...@gmail.com> wrote:



[John Nissen]

Hi Robert, 

I have already pointed this out.  It is very unfortunate nothing was done either to move John Moore earlier or the MEER talk later, since polar climate intervention and refreezing the Arctic could not be facing more serious opposition as the result of DJT, and an hour may not be enough to discuss the matter.

However we could continue this matter next week if I called a PRAG meeting at some time to suit Soumitra: India could be a key player when the US government is in denial of the crisis and wants to exploit a near-ice-free Arctic.

Regards, John

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[Ron Baiman]

Dear Colleagues,

Link to today's 1:00 pm meeting with John Moore (it appears that I may have sent out the wrong link in some posts!): 

Ron Baiman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: HPAC John Moore Presentation
Time: Jan 8, 2026 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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[Ron Baiman]

Dear John, 

With all due respect the initial notice of the meeting at 1:00 pm was sent out Monday 1/5 four days ago and no one got back to me (until you a couple hours ago) about the MEER conflict, so I'm not the only one who didn't realize this until much too late!

Best,

Ron

[John Nissen]

Hi all, here's the chat:

Robert Chris  to  Everyone 18:44

Sorry, I have to go.  I'm on the panel for the MEER Talk and need to log in early.
Interesting discussion.  Too short to examine the prospects of any of this being scalable at sufficient speed to make any significant difference to the Arctic, let alone the rest of the world.
I still struggle to understand how we, that's the global 'we', can make the shift from these delightful, respectful, interesting debates and actually do stuff that'll make a climatically significant difference.

Jonathan Cole  to  Everyone 18:47
two questions,  are you convinced by your research that the net ice loss for Greenland will reverse if the AMOC slows significantly over the coming years?  and from you familiarity with the culture of those citizens of Greenland, will they respond with a yes to an offer of 10 million dollars each and a thousand acres of free land, to change their sovereignty to the USA?

Robbie Tulip  to  Everyone 18:52
Thanks John, have to go to MEER.

John Moore  to  Everyone 18:53
Brown, S. et al. (2021) Global costs of protecting against sea-level rise at 1.5 to 4.0 °C. Climatic Change 167, 4.

Gregory Slater  to  Everyone 18:56

thanks to john moore

I asked at the meeting for support in the preparation of an Arctic emergency report press release, especially detailing the sea level rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet if its disintegration is not halted.  

John said that the disintegration was now mechanical, "geometrically unstable", and unstoppable through cooling intervention.  If that is the case, then we need interventions such as buttressing the terminations of glaciers to slow their descent.

Cheers, John

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