Tag: icesheet loss
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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What Do We Know About Climate Change?
Here Peter Sinclaire puts a case for ‘Climate Denial – Crock of the Week’
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Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, natural systems, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.
Article and images courtesy of Reuters – Like many low-altitude glaciers, it’s steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.
At the Kenai Fjords National Park south of Anchorage, managers have learned to follow the Exit and other glaciers, moving signs and paths [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, India, science, Tipping Points
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All aboard, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. There is a 25% chance this plane will crash.
By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
The reality of that welcome to us would be our reply, “I’m not getting on this flight!”
Yet we are all in fact on that flight with climate change and the plane has taken off.
Much has been promoted in the media lately that climate change science is somehow conspiring to [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, finite resources, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, resource depletion, stop climate change, Tipping Points
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The breakaway of a Mammoth iceberg scientist say could alter ocean circulation
An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday.
While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result in less temperate winters in [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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The colder side of the Antarctic Peninsula now shows signs of melting
A new report of ice shelf changes along the southern, colder part of the Antarctic Peninsula reveal some dramatic losses of ice over the last 63 years that the researchers attribute to global warming.
The report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) compiles a wide variety of maps, aerial photos and satellite imagery to create a [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Arctic melt to cost trillions: report
Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $US2.4 trillion to $US24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a new report.
“Everybody around the world is going to bear these costs,” said Eban Goodstein, a resource economist at Bard College in New [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, Tipping Points
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From National Geographic – (Video) A Way Forward: Facing Climate Change
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Posted: February 12th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, species extinction, stop climate change, Tipping Points
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Climate ‘Tipping Points’ May Arrive Without Warning, Says Top Forecaster
(PhysOrg.com) — A new University of California, Davis, study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth’s natural systems will occur — a worrisome finding for scientists trying to identify the tipping points that could push climate change into an irreparable global disaster.
“Many scientists [...]
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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Tipping Point? West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Become Unstable as World Warms
A new study examines how ice sheets, such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, could become unstable as the world warms.
The team from Oxford University and Cambridge University developed a model to explore how changes in the ‘grounding line’ — where an ice sheet floats free from its base of rock or sediment — could [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, icesheet loss, Pine Island Glacier, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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