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[Environment | The Independent UK] Environment | The Independent UK - Ancient glaciers are ...: High-resolution satellite laser measurements have shown that along both the Greenland and Antarctic coastlines, the glaciers and ice streams which for thousands of years have slowly carried ice into the sea are now rapidly thinning, meaning they are speeding up in their flow. In both cases, the increased flow rate is extending back far into the ice sheets' interior.

[TakePart Social Action Networkâ™] Yeah, So the Ocean is Warmer than a Century Ago. But why does it ...: Some scientists also believe that warmer ocean temperatures could hurt phytoplankton, which is problematic because the foundation of the ocean’s food chain is built on billions upon billions of these microscopic plants. Less phytoplankton would also mean less absorption of carbon by the ocean (since phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide), which in turn could mean more carbon stays trapped in the atmosphere and can then contribute to more warming.

[Rss News Online] Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers (AP) | Rss News Online: They found it ”” all the way up to the base of the outlet glaciers that spill into the ocean like tongues of ice from Greenland's massive ice sheet. Coupled with similar findings off western Greenland, the discovery could help to .

[Global Warming] AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles: "Using the most modern sophisticated computer models and in spite of the second warmest June- August temperatures, NONE of our models came close to predicting the sea ice extent 120 days into the future. While this unprecedented faux paux shows that with a 96% confidence level our computer modeling is highly incapable of predicting anything, we will continue to pontificate scenarios 36500 days into the future.

[Ocean Conserve: Ocean Conservation RSS Newsfeed] The Changing Arctic: How Animals Respond to Climate Change: The rapid changes in the Arctic also provide a way for scientists to tackle a long-standing problem in climate research, predicting what will happen to ecosystems in a warming world, Caldeira said. While some predictions, such dipping polar bear numbers from sea ice melt, are more predictable, others, such as the dynamics between shrub growth and grazing, are harder to predict.

[The Physical Environment] Future Geographies: Feedbacks Driving Global Warming « The ...: indicate that climatic warming my result in in a 12 to 15% reduction in the area covered by permafrost and a 15 to 30% increases in the thickness of the active layer.  As temperature rises permafrost melts, releasing stored carbon, but just as importantly, methane.  Increased warming results in more permafrost melting pushing the earth system ever forward into a future enhanced greenhouse environment.

[Mother Earth News Nature & Community] Four Scientists on the State of Global Warming and Climate Change ...: the Earth got warm in the past, too] "but it got warm over millions of years, and ecosystems had a chance to adapt. What we’re seeing are rates of increase in greenhouse gases and warming that exceed natural rates by a factor of 100.

[Community Blog] Climate Control: One of the conclusions from my study was that sea temperatures would soon exceed one yearly basis the temperatures known to cause coral bleaching and death, if we allowed atmospheric carbon dioxide to double. This caused considerable controversy, with many people being unable to contemplate the fact that coral reefs might not be with us in 30-50 years if we continue on the current emission trajectory.  Ten years after this paper, however, many other studies have examined my work and conclusions.  Unfortunately, these studies have come up with similar conclusions.  

[Students on Ice Blog] Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Expected | Students on Ice ...: Mernild and colleagues from the United States, United Kingdom and Denmark discovered that from 1995 to 2007, overall precipitation on the ice sheet decreased while surface ablation–the combination of evaporation, melting and calving of the ice sheet–increased. According to Mernild’s new data, since 1995 the ice sheet lost an average of 265 cubic kilometers per year, which has contributed to about 0.7 millimeters per year in global sea level rise.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Today: Tom Feilden: An inconvenient truth about global warming: BBC Radio 4 Today science correspondent Tom Feilden's blog. ... The ecosystem has always had to deal with these forces, and has always oscillated wildly - we just have never lived through one of these periods before. The evidence is all there in the climate records - tree rings, ice cores, layers of sediment etc. The problem is the people trying to interpret the data. Instead of looking to see what the data is telling them, they try to make the data into a (simpler) story ...

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Ocean current shutdown may take place more slowly than previously ...: LONDON - A new research by European scientists has provided evidence that an enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is fed by a salty ocean, a discovery that may have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. The Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus, on its exploration of the giant ringed planet in 2005.

[Watts Up With That?] New Ice Core Project in Greenland looks at Eemian period « Watts ...: Increased warming on Earth also has a host of other potentially deleterious effects, including changes in ecosystems, wildlife extinctions, the growing spread of disease, potentially catastrophic heat waves and increases in severe weather events, according to scientists.

[GREENCulture blog] Antarctica and our Changing Global Environment | GREENCulture blog: When ice has been frozen for many thousands of years and put under a lot of pressure, gravity squeezes all of the air molecules out, causing the ice to crystallize. This makes the ice blue and transparent like water, and in this state the ice is known as ”˜blue ice,’ which is also the form of ice that exists in glaciers.

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