Ha.

Here astrophysicist Jason Wright does an excellent job explaining why Avi is wrong:
(7/7)
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

Battered and fried with a spicy remoulade generally. It works well.

the broader distribution is because of regional differences in warming rates. It's not a function of (potentially) increased variance locally (which, as you rightly state, is a much harder call).

That had me riveted to my screen. Crazy.

Thanks to all of the collaborators, co-authors, workshop attendees and even reviewer #2. Including a few here @ruthmottram.bsky.social @drtwilamoon.bsky.social @jlbamber.bsky.social …

The process - from the workshop to the final paper - has been a tremendous collaboration from folks all over the world with very diverse interests and backgrounds and I think this will be a great step forward in how we can improve the interactions between ice sheets and oceans in climate modeling.

And that led to a broader interest in doing this better - bringing in more regional info, better iceberg melt maps, inclusion of more kinds of observations. This also led to deeper exploration of what different climate models actually do - and why!

My group did some preliminary work assessing whether it might make a difference - and it did! For SST, salinity, sea ice and SLR…

doi.org/10.1029/2023...

A bit of background. In CMIP6 no models included interactive ice sheets, and while different groups made slightly different assumptions about ice sheet mass balance, none had changes that matched the observations (from GRACE or in situ measurements).