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Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change

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par Harold Lovell, Senior Lecturer, Glaciology, University of Portsmouth

As a glaciologist who thinks about ice a lot, rewatching the movie Frozen umpteen times with my six-year-old daughter provides ample opportunity for my imagination to run wild. The movie is set in the fictional kingdom of Arendelle, which is modelled on a fjord landscape, complete with a large glacier at the head of Arenfjord. Ice unsurprisingly plays a very prominent role in the story. Yet this glacier receives very little attention.

Glaciers are receding across the world at an unprecedented rate. And…

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