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Human impact on glacier melt increasing - study
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Human activity is playing an increasing role in the melting of glaciers, Austrian and Canadian scientists have found. One of the most disruptive effects of climate change, glacier retreat leads to rising sea levels, landslides and unpredictable availability of water downstream. Meanwhile, a separate study found ice discharge from the Antarctica could raise sea levels by up to 37cm this century, more than previously thought. Scientists and policymakers are calling for international collaboration...
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Humans seen as biggest force behind glacier meltdown
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leader Post: Over the past 20 years, human influences have become the strongest driver of melting glaciers, Austrian and Canadian glaciologists reported Thursday in the journal Science. The world's glaciers have been shrinking since the end of the Little Ice Age but scientists say they now have "unambiguous evidence" that human activities are making them melt faster. Over the past 20 years, human influences on the global climate have become the strongest driver of melting glaciers, a team of Austrian and...
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Humans to blame for much of recent glacier melt
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From Alaska to the Alps, photos of today's diminished glaciers contrasted with grainy black-and-white images of their former, more massive states are some of the most widely used examples of the impact of human-caused climate change, with their melt threatening water supplies, enhancing sea level rise, and posing threats like floods from bursting glacial lakes. "Everybody is using [these photos],' said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "But nobody actually...
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Humans to Blame for Much of Recent Glacier Melt
2014-08-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From Alaska to the Alps, photos of today's diminished glaciers contrasted with grainy black-and-white images of their former, more massive states are some of the most widely used examples of the impact of human-caused climate change, with their melt threatening water supplies, enhancing sea level rise, and posing threats like floods from bursting glacial lakes. "Everybody is using [these photos],' said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "But nobody actually...
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Man-made warming becomes main cause of glacier retreat, study says
2014-08-14 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Man-made greenhouse gas emissions have become the dominant cause of melting in glaciers from the Alps to the Andes that is raising world sea levels, a study said on Thursday. Human emissions accounted for an estimated 69 percent of loss of ice from glaciers from 1991-2010, overtaking natural climate variations that had been the main driver of a retreat since the mid-19th century, researchers wrote in the journal Science. Until now, scientists have struggled to quantify the impact of human behavior...
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