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Unusually warm Arctic winter stuns scientists with record low ice extent for January
2016-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Right about now, Arctic sea ice should be building up toward its annual maximum, making most of the region impenetrable to all but the most hardened icebreakers. Instead, January and indeed much of the winter so far has been unusually mild throughout large parts of the Arctic. A freak storm brought temperatures to near the freezing point, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, near the North Pole for a short time in late December and early January, and other storms have repeatedly acted like space heaters...
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How melting Arctic ice may have set off era vicious East Coast snow storms
2016-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Does shrinking ice in the Arctic lead to more crushing snow storms along the East Coast? Through a complex chain of events, its very possible says leading Arctic researcher and seasonal forecaster Judah Cohen. Since 1990, as sea ice has rapidly melted away in the Arctic, crippling snow storms have increasingly buried the Northeasts big cities. [Is global warming behind D.C.s new era of great snow storms?] In Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, at least five...
High Arctic temperatures drive sea ice to record low
2016-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discover: The plot above shows how Arctic region air temperatures at about 3,000 feet above the surface varied from average in January 2016. The North Pole is at the center of map. The air temperature for the region at this height was about 13 degrees F above the 1981-2010 mean -- a record. At the surface, January saw an average temperature that was 11 degrees above normal, also a record. (National Snow and Ice Data Center, courtesy NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division) In my...
New Record Low for January Arctic Sea Ice
2016-02-05 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The amount of Arctic sea ice set a record low for the month of January, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Thursday. January 2016 was a remarkably warm month there, the data center said. Air temperatures were 13 degrees above average across most of the Arctic Ocean. Just before New Year's, a slug of mild air pushed temperatures above freezing to within 200 miles of the North Pole, according to Weather Underground meteorologist Bob Henson. This was due in part to a strong negative...
Geophysicist questions stability of Antarctic ice sheet
2016-01-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A professor in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences is joining the growing debate over the fate of the world's largest ice sheet, whose sudden melting is sending shockwaves throughout the geophysics community. Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth sciences, is the co-author of a recent paper in Geology (Geological Society of America, 2015), examining the impact of the deep Earth on ice-sheet stability. Particular emphasis is on the retreat, or melting, of the East Antarctic Ice...
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