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Great Lakes covered with most ice in 20 years
2014-02-15 08:51:18| Chemicals - Topix.net
From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders - a battleground for the icebreaker's 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory.
Frigid Great Lakes nearly covered in ice, a first in 20 years
2014-02-15 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders -- a battleground for the icebreaker`s 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory. It`s been so bitterly cold for so long in the Upper Midwest that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice. The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent of the lakes` surface was frozen. As of Friday, ice cover extended...
Climate Trends Tell Different Story for Great Lakes Ice
2014-02-14 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: This winter has offered a rare treat for visitors to Lake Superior's Apostle Islands: a stroll across the frozen waters to ice caves straight out of a scene in the movie "Frozen.' Thanks to enduring and massive blasts of frigid air, extensive lake ice has made the caves, normally only accessible to summer visitors traveling by boat, reachable by foot for the first time since 2009. The bitter weather also has the Great Lakes on the brink of setting a record for the widest ice cover recorded. As...
Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Eliminates Major Barrier for Parasites in Marine Mammals
2014-02-14 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The great Arctic thaw--up to 50 percent of sea ice by area and 75 percent by volume in the summer season--could be offering new opportunities for one of the planets most successful parasites. Toxoplasma gondii, an infection spread by almost all cat species, has been identified for the first time in the western Arctic Beluga whale. Toxoplasma is found almost everywhere that cats settle: domestic pets, ocelots, cougar, wild cats all carry and spread oocysts of the parasite (structures it uses to...
Ice storm paradox: Colder because Earth is warmer
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With the American South locked in a deep freeze, you can be sure that plenty of the folks suffering through the snow and ice storms are interpreting the big chill as more proof that global warming is a hoax. "Warming?' they scoff. "How can the planet be warming when it's so darn cold?' People in other parts of the world seem to have no great difficulty understanding the science but, in the good old USA where quite a few people consider science just another political opinion, it is going to take...
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