Raymond S. Bradley Shares the Importance of the Cryosphere with 'MassLive'

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The cryosphere, which includes all frozen water on Earth, is crucial for regulating the global climate by reflecting solar radiation and storing freshwater. However, this system is under threat from rising temperatures, which accelerate ice melt, contributing to sea level rise and extreme weather events.

To bring visibility to the cryosphere, Raymond S. Bradley—a Distinguished Professor in the College of Natural Sciences's Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and the director of the Climate System Research Center—has written a column in MassLive about the importance of this system and the World Climate Research Programme’s International Office for Climate and the Cryosphere (CliC), which is currently housed at UMass Amherst. 

Bradley describes the contributions that CliC will offer in the years ahead:

“The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) group at UMass will play a major role in coordinating scientific research to ensure that many of the uncertainties that we now face will be resolved in the decade ahead. However, the fundamental problem remains: global warming is driving a reduction of all parts of the cryosphere and the only solution to that is a rapid decline in fossil fuel use.”

— Raymond S. Bradley

Click here to read the MassLive column.