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West Antarctic Heating Up Far Faster Than Thought
Temperatures in West Antarctica have increased over 4°F over the past 50 years or so, says a new study published in Nature Geoscience, reports Michael Lemonick at Climate Central. This is far more than scientists have thought, and close to … Continue reading
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Arctic Wildfire Soot Helped Melt Greenland
As warmer temperatures in the north expand the wildfire season, fires on the Arctic tundra are increasing. Now a new report indicates that the sooty smoke from the 2012 summer fires helped in the dramatic thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet … Continue reading
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Holiday Tree Fights and No Reindeer Under Future Climate Change
The 2012 US summer drought caused many holiday tree seedlings in Michigan and Tennessee to die this year, reports Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones, which means in 6 or 7 years, when they would have matured, people there will be … Continue reading
Total Loss of Arctic Summer Ice Could Double Global Warming
The Arctic Sea Ice cap, which shields 2 percent of the Earth’s surface from summer sunlight up there, has shrunk 70% in its September volume in the last dozen years alone, reports Ramez Naam at Climate Progress via Scientific American. … Continue reading
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Arctic Death Spiral From Fossil Fuel Mining
Local pollution in the Arctic from shipping and oil and gas industries, which have expanded in the region due to a thawing of sea ice caused by global warming, could further accelerate that thaw, experts say, reports Alister Doyle at … Continue reading
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Earth’s Air Conditioner Is Melting – Record Low Arctic Ice
Earth’s Air Conditioner Is Melting – Record Low Arctic Ice The drastic melting of Arctic sea ice has finally ended for the year, scientists announced, but not before demolishing the previous record — and setting off new warnings about the … Continue reading
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Ice Can Change Fast, Loss May Cause More Extreme Winters
A new study in the journal Science says that ice sheets respond to modest climate change far faster than previously thought, reports Michael Lemonick at Climate Central, growing fast under cooling. But this indicates they can melt fast, too. Effects … Continue reading
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Tipping Point of Ice-Free North Pole at Hand – Record Arctic Melt
Extreme, record-breaking Arctic summer ice melt both in area and volume, dramatically indicates, many scientists say, that Arctic sea ice has passed a tipping point and that sometime in the next decade the North Pole will be largely ice-free in … Continue reading
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Siberian Carbon Bomb Starting – New Study
A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast, frozen for tens of thousands of years, is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw parts of its coastline, a study in the journal Nature warns, reports Agence France Presse in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, environment, global warming, rising sea levels, Russia, Siberia
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Loss of Arctic Ice Much Faster Than Predicted
Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a far greater rate than previously expected, about 50% higher than most predictions, according to data from the first satellite launched to study the thickness of the Earth’s polar caps, reports Robin McKie at … Continue reading
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