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Burning All of the Worlds Fossil Fuels Would Completely Melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet
2015-09-14 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Heres another argument for keeping the worlds fossil fuels in the ground: If all the coal, gas and oil on Earth is extracted and burned, the Antarctic ice sheet will melt entirely, scientists warn in a new blockbuster study published last Friday in the research journal Science Advances. The mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become...
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Burning all fossil fuels would 'eliminate' Antarctic ice, lift seas 58m: study
2015-09-11 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Burning all available fossil fuels would "eliminate" the giant ice sheets of Antarctica and lift sea levels by 58 metres, enough to inundate major coastal cities, according to US and Europe-based researchers. The combustion of available coal, oil and gas reserves would result in 10,000 billion tonnes of carbon emissions, and ensure West and East Antarctic ice sheets are destabilised and would ultimately melt, the study published on Saturday in Science Advances found. While the process could...
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Antarctic Ocean's carbon dioxide absorption increased: Study
2015-09-11 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing levels of carbon dioxide over the past decade, a new study has found, dispelling fears that the ocean's carbon sink might have begun to "saturate". The Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and releases it back later in the year. On an annual average the seas surrounding Antarctica absorb significantly more CO2 than they release. These seas rem ..
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Climate change: Antarctic Ocean increases absorption of CO2
2015-09-11 03:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Defying earlier fears, researchers say the Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide over the past decade, making it critical to mitigating the worst effects of climate change. The findings upend estimates, put forward a decade ago, that the seas surrounding the continent were approaching a saturation point and would not be able to continue to absorb increasing amounts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Since that time, the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse...
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New report recommends research priorities for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science
2015-08-11 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] WASHINGTON — An initiative to better understand how melting ice sheets will contribute to sea-level rise, efforts to decode the genomes of organisms to understand evolutionary adaptations, and a next-generation cosmic microwave background experiment to address fundamental questions about the origin of the universe are the top research goals for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science recommended in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. <…
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