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[earthnews] NASA’s Hansen calls for severe CO2 cuts: Hansen said. “Over the next five to 10 years, we are almost certainly going to lose all that sea ice.”
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: “An analysis of Greenland ice cores shows how atmospheric changes during the last ice age probably spurred wild temperature swings, a finding researchers said on Thursday could help predict future climate change.
[Wednesday-Night] Greening of academia: They discussed the six degrees Celsius of separation that stand between us and global crop failure, the melting of 40 per cent of the Arctic ice shelf in the past 40 years, and the evacuation of the world’s low-lying islands (which has already begun).
[Mike's Place] Wilkins Ice Shelf Continues Break Up Even Durning Winter: Long-term satellite monitoring over Antarctica is important because it provides authoritative evidence of trends and allows scientists to make predictions. Ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula are important indicators for on-going climate change because they are sandwiched by extraordinarily raising surface air temperatures and a warming ocean.
[Supreme Master Television] It’s time to go veg, says US actor, Ed Begley, Jr. -16 Jun 2008: Citing data from the Hydrological Service of Israel, the group says that this past May the water level in the Dead Sea dropped 10 cm and the month before it dropped 8 cm. Stating that this is likely due to increased water consumption from the Jordan River and other water sources, Mishmar Hamiflas suggests more efficient use of water by the agricultural sector as one possible solution to replenish the Dead Sea.
[Latest News] North Pole might be free of ice for the first time in history this ...: “I would say the ice in the vicinity of the North Pole is primed for melting, and an ice-free North Pole is a good possibility,” said Sheldon Drobot, a climatologist at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado in the US.
[Food Crisis] Cracking up: the ice shelf as big as Northern Ireland: A thin strip of ice is all that now prevents the Wilkins shelf from disintegrating and breaking away from the landmass of the Antarctic peninsula, scientists said yesterday. The peninsula is the fastest-warming region in the Antarctic and has seen some of the largest temperature rises on earth (0.5C per decade) which is why the Wilkins ice shelf is on the verge of disappearing completely, said one of the scientists.
[Untitled] Yet Another Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaking up Faster Than Expected: “Climate warming in the Antarctic Peninsula has pushed the limit of viability for ice shelves further south - setting some of them that used to be stable on a course of retreat and eventual loss. The Wilkins breakout won’t have any effect on sea-level because it is floating already, but it is another indication of the impact that climate change is having on the region.”
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Daily News: “The world’s oceans have warmed 50% faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday”¦ Rising sea levels are driven by”¦ the thermal expansion of sea .
[Power Of 5 Weather Blog] ANTARCTICA MELTING?: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which operates under the auspices of the United Nations, has estimated that sea-level rise could amount to 7 to 23 inches (18-59 centimeters) this century, in part because of melting glaciers worldwide. The Geophysical Research Letters paper suggests that warming in Antarctica over the next century could offset that by about 2 inches if the continent warms by 5.4 degrees F (3 degrees C), as computer models have indicated.
[Fire Earth] Drunken Forest: Last year’s temperatures from August to October over land in the western Arctic were In the unusually warm autumn of 2007 the western Arctic temperatures rose by about 2 °C above the average recorded temperatures for the previous 28 years. As the sea ice melted rapidly, the scientists discovered, Arctic land warmed three and a half times faster than the rate predicted by most climate models.
[blah blah blah bullshit blah] NEITHER HONEST NOR TRUSTWORTHY: THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2007: A week before the invasion of Iraq, Barlett and Steele write, “SAIC was awarded yet another no-bid contract, this one for $15 million, which within a year would balloon to $82 million. The contract gave SAIC the responsibility for establishing a ‘free and independent indigenous media network’
[ecoflip Eco-Friendly Blog] Forget Earth Quakes, What About Ice Quakes?: Finding the causes of ice quakes--which also occur in Greenland--could lead to better understanding glacial movement and improved models of how glaciers will respond to climate change, says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who first reported the twice-daily surges of the Whillans Ice Stream in 2003. "What has come from these discoveries is a realization that glaciers have other modes of behavior than we have thought of previously,"
[Random-American] The Greatest Hoax ever Perpetrated: In 2007 a British court held that, in order for his lie/movie to be shown to school children, “eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of the [students].” Among those inaccuracies, the court ruled, was that rises in CO2 lagged behind temperature rises by 800-2,000 years; that despite the movie’s claim, it is a scientific impossibility for global warming to cause the Gulf Steam to stop flowing;
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