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What Do We Know About Climate Change?

Here Peter Sinclaire puts a case for ‘Climate Denial – Crock of the Week’
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Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord

Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers led by Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
“This is the first time we’ve seen waters this warm in any of the [...]

Greenland’s glaciers disappearing from the bottom up

Water warmed by climate change is taking giant bites out of the underbellies of Greenland’s glaciers. As much as 75 per cent of the ice lost by the glaciers is melted by ocean warmth.
“There’s an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,” says Eric Rignot at the University [...]

2030 is just around the corner.

We have 20/20 hindsight on the past of which it is said we can be wise. It is also said we more often wait to react after the event, rather than take actions to prevent an outcome; sometimes with dire consequences. We all now have 20/20 foresight on the future of the world as it [...]

Study forecasts 9m sea-level rise if temperatures meet 2C threshold

Hundreds of millions of people around the world would be affected as low low-lying coastal areas became inundated
Global sea levels could rise by up to 9m in the next few hundred years, even if the world manages to stabilise average temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new study.
In this scenario, hundreds of [...]

Greenland Glaciers: Water Flowing Beneath Ice Plays More Complex Role

Scientists who study the melting of Greenland’s glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.
Researchers previously thought that meltwater simply lubricated ice against the bedrock, speeding the flow of glaciers out to sea.
Now, new studies have revealed that the effect of meltwater on acceleration [...]

Copenhagen police detain 900 in climate change rally

Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen say 900 protesters have been detained following a huge climate change rally.
The move came after youths threw bricks and smashed windows as more than 30,000 demonstrators marched to demand action at the UN climate change summit.
Similar marches have been held in cities around the world, calling for decisive action [...]

To really save the planet, stop going green

As President Obama heads to Copenhagen next week for global warming talks, there’s one simple step Americans back home can take to help out: Stop “going green.” Just stop it. No more compact fluorescent light bulbs. No more green wedding planning. No more organic toothpicks for holiday hors d’oeuvres.
December should be national Green-Free Month. Instead [...]

Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts

Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.
Conducted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), it says that warming seas are accelerating melting in the west of the continent.
Ozone loss has cooled the region, [...]

‘Copenhagen Diagnosis’ offers a grim update to the IPCC’s climate science reports seen now as flawed.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world’s foremost body for weighing and assessing climate science—received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported.
Twenty-six climatologists—including 14 IPCC members—have released a startling update to the panel’s work, reporting that sea levels could [...]