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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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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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Pacific Sea Level Rise Tied to Climate Change
After 6,000 years of relative stability, sea levels in the southwest Pacific started rising drastically in the 1880s, with a notable peak in the 1990s thought to be linked to human-induced climate change, according to a new study published in … Continue reading
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