CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Disclosure statementMatthew England receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Read more: IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth's oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean Changes in the overturning circulation could also mean more heat gets to the ice, particularly around West Antarctica, the area with the greatest rate of ice mass loss over the past few decades. What next?near Antarctica, in a pattern very similar to our model simulations