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The Last Place on Earth to Feel Global Warming

2016-05-31 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Gizmodo: It's an observation repeated loud and often by climate deniers: while Greenland melts like a popsicle in the summer sun, Antarctica is staying chill. Parts of the coastline are actually gaining sea ice. According to a new scientific paper, there's no conspiracy to be found here, but rather, a manifestation of global ocean currents. In fact, the waters surrounding Antarctica could be the last place on Earth to feel the burn of global warming. Like a vast conveyor belt, the ocean transports energy...

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Spring happens all at once, and the woods feel giddy

2016-05-25 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: May-time, fair season blackbirds sing a full song, if there be a scanty beam of day, sang an unknown Irish poet in what we now call the dark ages. Today, the light through the trees is as green and sour as a gooseberry. A high canopy of ash, latest to leaf and still sparse, lets sunshine and showers through to lower levels a-swamp with leaf; each one a crucible in the alchemy turning light into life. Dark, gnarled trunks of old hawthorns have suddenly become lithe and sinuous, like shadow...

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