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Showing posts with label ice sheet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice sheet. Show all posts
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Cryosphere in peril: Calls by Scientists, President of Chile, Prime Minister of Iceland, UN Chief to phase out Fossil Fuels at COP28

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Before attending COP28 in Dubai, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres did a flying vist to Antarctica with Gabriel Boric, President of Chil...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Antarctic ice mass accelerating according to GRACE reanalysis, Pine Island Glacier in sustained retreat

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The continent of Antarctica is a land of complexity and paradox, especially when talking about climate change. It is our driest and coldest ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Greenland Melting detected during Winter a climate change concern

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Satellite data for the first several weeks of 2013 is showing that melting is occurring in south east Greenland. In summer this would be exp...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Is Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea level rise?

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Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss f...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Global Warming on West Antarctic Ice Sheet three times the global average

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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd Polar Station. Thi...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Climate change connection between Global temperatures, ice volume and sea level

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There is a rapid response connection between polar temperature changes, ice volume and sea leavel according to a new method of dating of se...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Southern Ocean warming impact on Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea level rise

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Climate change is causing the southern ocean to warm and freshen which will melt ice shelves and glacier tongues affecting glacier discharge...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Greenland Ice Sheet experiences unprecedented surface melt

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Surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet reached up to 97% of the ice sheet area by July 12, an unprecedented level of melting, according to ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Waking the giant: Global Warming in the Weddell Sea, West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level rise

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Warm ocean currents are projected to melt the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica opening instabilities in the We...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Global Warming threshold for Greenland Ice Sheet collapse reduced to 1.6 degrees C

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New research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Universidad Complutense de Madrid has lowered the best estimate for...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Attenborough warns of ice shelf destruction in Antarctica

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UK Naturalist and documentary maker David Attenborough has warned about the implications of melting ice sheets in the polar regions but emph...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Global Warming in Antarctica: Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers accelerating, West Antarctic Ice Sheet losing mass

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Scientists have been studying the climate change impacts on ice shelfs and glaciers for some time in Antarctica, and particularly around the...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Greenland melting in 2011 well above average with near-record mass loss

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Professor Marco Tedesco from the City College of New York reports that extreme melting continues from the Greenland Ice sheet this year with...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Record summer melting in Greenland 2010

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I reported in January that Greenland sets a new melt record in 2010 - sea levels to rise . This image from the NASA Earth Observatory Image ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Greenland sets a new melt record in 2010 - sea levels to rise

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The chilly fact is that the Greenland ice cap is melting at an accelerated rate. The big melt achieved a new record in 2010 according to new...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

La Niña brings some rain, as Global Climate hots up

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One of the important weather factors in the Pacific basin affecting global weather but particularly Pacific Rim countries is the El Niño/Sou...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Arctic Sea Ice heading for Rapid Disintegration: Greenland Ice Sheet melting

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Arctic summer sea ice is headed towards rapid disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change ...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

NASA Climatologist Predicts Disastrous Sea Level Rise

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In an interview on Australian ABC Television program, The 7.30 Report, James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, predicted the likelihoo...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Catastrophic Climate Change may be Inevitible unless Drastic Steps are Taken

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A report by Friends of the Earth Australia warns that catastrophic climate change may be inevitable unless dramatic steps are taken to reduc...
Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than expected

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Scientists have measured a significant decrease in the mass of the Greenland ice cap, using data from satellites that measures movement in E...