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‘Greenland ice loss led to rise in sea level’
Nuuk :: Greenland | 12 days ago
Credibility
They found that results from the two methods roughly matched and showed that Greenland is losing enough ice to contribute on average 0.46 millimetres per year to global sea-level rise, journal New Scientist reported. The loss may be accelerating: since...
Tags: Greenland, sea level, ice loss, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Glaciology, Oceanography, Effects of global warming, Current sea level rise, Ice sheet
UN claims climate change will cause hunger in Pacific (NZPA)
Rome :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility A United Nations food agency says climate change could push more people into hunger in the Pacific islands, by ruining crops and forests and damaging the fish industry. The Food and Agriculture Organisation on Thursday urged leaders meeting at next month's...
Tags: climate change, sea level, Pacific, Rome, Environment, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Effects of global warming, Liberal democracies, Least Developed Countries, Current sea level rise, Island countries
NIWA “adjusts” records to show warming
Auckland :: New Zealand | 14 days ago
Credibility Spokesman for the group, Richard Treadgold, said that recent claims that New Zealand is warming have been proved wrong. “Official information clearly shows that temperatures in New Zealand have actually been remarkably stable since 1850...Dr Jim Salinger,...
Tags: sea level, New Zealand, Auckland, Environment, Measurement, Kelburn New Zealand, Thorndon, Climate change, Global warming, Wellington, Jim Salinger, Wellington Region
Target practice
THE Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that American negotiators will bring an emissions reduction target with them to the Copenhagen climate-change talks, even though Congress won't yet have passed the cap-and-trade legislation that turns such...
Tags: Polar ice packs, ice sheet, Glaciology, East Antarctic, Global warming, antarctic ice, Climate change, Senate Republicans, Environment, change sceptics, Juliet Eilperin, sea level, allnews, Barack Obama, Washington, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, If, Antarctic ice sheet, American, East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Flood threat
Monrovia :: Liberia | 15 days ago
Credibility The majority of Liberians live close to the coast Liberia on Africa's west coast is in desperate need of help as it suffers from the effects of climate change...The United Nations Development Programme say the changing climate means the sea level is...
Tags: Amma Ennim, Liberians, University of Liberia, civil war, Monrovia, sea level, Buchanan, New Kru Town, Liberia, Environment, Economic Community of West African States, Current sea level rise
Billions in Canadian assets at risk from global warming: Report
Ottawa :: Canada | 16 days ago
Credibility More than $200 billion worth of Canadian assets are at risk from global warming, says an international report released Monday. The report, released jointly by a major insurance firm and an environmental group, ranked Canada as 12th in the world in terms...
Tags: sea level, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Climate change, Global warming, Allianz, Physical oceanography, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, World Wide Fund for Nature, Oceanography, Tipping point, Effects of global warming, Insurance, Current sea level rise
Global warming affects Vietnam's women hardest
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 17 days ago
Credibility This is because the devastation wrought by floods, storms and droughts means farmers have to toil longer in the fields to make enough money to survive. And as farm wives and daughters then have to return to the family home to prepare meals and organize...
Tags: Nguyen Thi Lanh, climate change, Vietnam, sea level, Hanoi, Global warming, Environment
Bayside residents unfazed by rising sea levels
Melbourne :: Australia | 17 days ago
Credibility Beach-front homes in bayside suburbs could be vulnerable to rising sea levels. Government to protect communities against any threat of inundation. Two government reports last week on the expected impact of climate change and sea level rises showed even...
Tags: climate change, sea level, rises sea, Australia, Melbourne, Global warming, Current sea level rise, Physical oceanography, Climate Change Act, Effects of global warming on Australia, Effects of global warming, Action on climate change, Environment
World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 17 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
Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region
Cartagena :: Colombia | 17 days ago
Credibility The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time his neighborhood in this historic coastal city became an island. For five years, Alfonso, 74, has watched tides rise...
Tags: Cartagena, Colombian, Caribbean, climate change, Alfonso, sea level, Colombia, Oceanography, Physical oceanography, Cartagena Colombia, Cartagena Spain, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Environment
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