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Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat
Berlin :: Germany | about 13 hours ago
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This was based on a “business as usual” approach by governments that allowed temperatures to rise by 4 degrees...Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets would contribute to total sea-level rises. One of the world’s leading experts on climate science has called...
Tags: Antarctica, global warming, sea level, ice sheets, Germany, Berlin, Environment, Climate change, Current sea level rise, Ice sheet, Antarctic ice sheet, Effects of global warming, Poles, Ozone depletion, Glaciology, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Stefan Rahmstorf, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Greenland ice sheet, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Greenhouse gas, Antarctic Peninsula
Melting ice sheets threaten defences
London :: United Kingdom | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Sea levels could rise by as much as 1.4 metres (4.6 feet) by 2100 – more than twice previous estimates – according to new studies showing that one of the Antarctic's massive ice sheets is more vulnerable to melting than previously thought. This would...
Tags: ice sheets, sea level, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Antarctic ice sheet, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Southern Ocean, Climate change, Global warming, Glaciology, Oceanography
Copenhagen: The era of climate stability is coming to an end
Nuuk :: Greenland | 1 day ago
Credibility A man rides his bicycle through the flood on River Street, Ballinasloe in County Galway which is under 3ft of water after the river Suck burst its banks. Photograph: PA For about 10,000 years, our climate on Earth has been stable.
Tags: climate change, Earth, carbon dioxide, Copenhagen, ice ages, sea levels, ice sheets, climate stability, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Scientific opinion on climate change, Global warming, Tipping point, Effects of global warming
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened...
Tags: U.S. West, U.S. Senate, global warming, sea ice, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, ice sheets, Antarctica, carbon dioxide, Greenland, Washington, Environment, Future sea level, Regional effects of global warming, Current sea level rise
Warming diagnosis: beyond worst case
Nuuk :: Greenland | 7 days ago
Credibility KEY climate change measures are tracking near or beyond worse-case scenarios predicted just two years ago, according to a science update drawing on more than 200 recently published studies. Co-authored by 26 climate scientists, The Copenhagen Diagnosis...
Tags: ice sheets, antarctic ice, West Antarctic, East Antarctic, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Current sea level rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Carbon finance, IPCC Third Assessment Report, East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Greenland ice sheet, Global cooling, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Tipping point, Antarctic ice sheet, Scientific opinion on climate change, Glaciology, Greenhouse gases, Ice sheet
Project to study water at pole
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Water systems beneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheets are among the world’s last unexplored regions. But many of the mysteries of the world’s subglacial environments will be unlocked in the coming years thanks to a new research team planning to drill...
Tags: Brent Christner, Antarctica, ice sheets, Baton Rouge, Whillans Ice Stream, Glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Current sea level rise, Climate change, Glaciology, Extreme points of Earth, Environment
World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 9 days ago
Credibility The world's largest ice sheet has started to melt along its coastal fringes, raising fears that global sea levels will rise faster than scientists expected. The East Antarctic ice sheet, which makes up three-quarters of the continent's 14,000 sq km, is...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, East Antarctic, losing mass, ice loss, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Oceanography, Glaciology, Antarctic ice sheet, Global warming, Current sea level rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice sheets, Sea level, Greenland ice sheet, Interglacial, Effects of global warming, Antarctica, Eemian, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice ages, Pleistocene
The giant iceberg that went walkabout... towards the coast of Australia
Australia is known for sunny beaches, surfers, and blistering Outback heat.So scientists were a bit taken aback when they spotted this giant iceberg floating near an island Down Under.Australian Antarctic Division researchers were working on Macquarie...
Tags: The giant iceberg that went walkabout... towards the coast of Australia, Environment, global warming, Neal Young, giant icebergs, Ross Ice Shelf, ice sheets, Andrew Kohut, Australia, Hamish Pritchard, Sydney, Climate change, Iceberg, Ice shelf, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Physical oceanography, Antarctica, Glaciology
Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'
Nuuk :: Greenland | 18 days ago
Credibility Published in the journal Science, it has also given scientists a clearer view of why the sheet is shrinking. The team used weather data, satellite readings and models of ice sheet behaviour to analyse the annual loss of 273 thousand million tonnes of...
Tags: Greenland, ice sheet, ice loss, Nuuk, Oceanography, Ice sheets, Greenland ice sheet, Current sea level rise, Sea level, Climate change, Glaciology, Effects of global warming, Environment, Glacier, Physical oceanography
Thinning glaciers drive polar ice loss
Nuuk :: Greenland | 2 months ago
Credibility Thinning glaciers driving polar ice loss, satellite survey finds Satellite survey of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets reveals extensive network of rapidly thinning glaciers that is driving ice loss in the regions Arctic sea ice coverage. Scientists...
Tags: Antarctica, ice sheets, Greenland, ice loss, thinning glaciers, polar ice, Nuuk
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