Tag: West Antarctic
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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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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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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Climate change melts Antarctic ice shelves: USGS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Climate change is melting the floating ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, giving scientists a preview of what could happen if other ice shelves around the southern continent disappear, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday.
The ice has retreated so far from the land mass that Charcot Island, which has long [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ross Ice Shelf, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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NASA Video helps Piece Together the Temperature Puzzle
As you watch this enthralling NASA video presentation it will provide some answers and leave you with questions of your own to answer.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Technologies, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, extreme weather events, glacial melt, global warming, methane, natural systems, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves
Depicting a cause-and-effect scenario that spans thousands of miles, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his collaborators discovered that ocean waves originating along the Pacific coasts of North and South America impact Antarctic ice shelves and could play a role in their catastrophic collapse.
Peter Bromirski of Scripps Oceanography is [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ross Ice Shelf, sea level rise, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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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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National Geographic – Glaciers on the Antarctic peninsular are melting away at an alarming rate
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Posted: February 1st, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, sea level rise, Tipping Points, 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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An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours 3 time-lapsed photos
3 time-lapsed photos show the incredible disintegration of the Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica.
Within a 24-hour space, an area of sea ice larger than the state of Rhode Island broke away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf and shattered into many smaller pieces. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites captured [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, Ice Shelves, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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