And all of these papers were hot on the heels of Levermann et al., which ironically had one of the more hubristic press releases (in terms of confidence in results) I’ve see in my years of reading such things but seems to have been demolished as to some key conclusions in record time.

Also note Jason Box’s set of papers from a few months back (with Colgan as co-author). He promises results on ice loss rate soon. These papers at least did make the AR5 deadline.

Finally, Tedesco et al., another paper from the last week, adds some new information on different modes of ice sheet surface melt drainage.

I realize it’s a large task, but is there any chance you could expand your post to incorporate this additional material? All of it taken together seems like a very big deal, so it does seem like a synthesis wold be useful.

Meanwhile, don’t throw away your knickers.

But I just soiled them!