Tag: icesheet loss
Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level
The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
August 7th — A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday, researchers based at the University of Delaware said.
The [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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NASA eyeballs glacial melt in Greenland
The Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, one of the largest glaciers in Greenland, swiftly lost a 2.7-square mile chunk of ice between July 6 and 7, NASA announced late last week. The ice loss pushed the point where the glacier meets the ocean, known as the “calving front,” nearly one mile farther inland in a single day. [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Bob Williamson, Climate Change, global warming, Greenhouse Neutral Foundation, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Melting ice makes the Arctic a vicious circle
EVERYONE knows how much hotter it feels to wear a black T-shirt, rather than a white one, on a warm day.
In the same way, the melting of sea ice in the Arctic, revealing the dark water below, has been shown by Australian scientists to be the main cause of unusually rapid warming at the top [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise
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A visual depiction of how much ice Greenland is losing
From John Cook Sceptical Science
I’m talking at the University of Queensland next week so I thought I might use Skeptical Science to test-drive a new visual metaphor. Sometimes in the climate debate, we get a bit lost in the data and statistical analysis, forgetting the sheer scale of the impact we’re having on our climate. [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Geologists Drill into Antarctica and Find Troubling Signs for Ice Sheets’ Future
New sediment cores from an Antarctic research drilling program suggest that the southernmost continent has had a more dynamic history than previously suspected
ERICE, Italy—If you think of Earth’s poles as fraternal twins, the Arctic has been the wild one in recent years, while the Antarctic has been a steady plodder. Withered by summer heat, Arctic [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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10 Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back If We Don’t Stop Our Wanton Destruction of the Environment
Deniers are dancing on the graves of their reputations, to say nothing of reality itself. But Earth will still get the last laugh on all of them, and us for that matter.
March 21, 2010 | Scott Thill – Alternet
And if the ground’s not cold/Everything is gonna burn/We’ll all take turns/I’ll get mine too. — Pixies, “Monkey Gone [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, Tipping Points
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Methane May Be Building Under Antarctic Ice
BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, a new study suggests.
In recent years scientists have learned that liquid water lurks under much of Antarctica’s massive ice sheet, and so, they say, the potential microbial habitat in this watery world is [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, methane, methane clathrates, Tipping Points
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Climate Change and Sea Level Rise – Crock of the week
In the book Mother Natures Super Salesman put it like this; Excerpt
“During the summer of 2005 we got started on breaking some records for melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Offering to destabilize large parts of the ice sheet on timescales measured in years or decades, not millennia. Just to emphasize the point,” said the [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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Climate change human link evidence ’stronger’ Reports the UK Met Office
From the News desk at the BBC – A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007.
The analysis, published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points, World News
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