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Antarctic Ice Melt Will Double by 2050, Say Experts
2015-10-13 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Recently, researchers have pointed out that Antarctica's melting hasn't been as intense as many climate change experts had feared. However, new research has revealed that this is all about to change, with new data hinting that the White Continent's surface will double its current melt rate by 2050. Specifically, investigators with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at Utrecht University, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)...
Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Could Double by 2050, Dramatically Increasing Sea Level Rise
2015-10-13 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If countries act fast to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research, there is still time to curtail the most cataclysmic Antarctic ice melt. However, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, if fossil fuel consumption maintains its current rate, Antarctica may experience a widespread collapse of its ice shelves, which could spur significant sea level rise. Researchers employed a combination of satellite observations of ice surface melting and...
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Why scientists are so worried about ice shelves of Antarctica
2015-10-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When it comes to climate change, Antarctica is one of the worlds major places of concern, mostly because of the sheer amount of ice it contains -- enough to theoretically cause about 200 feet of sea-level rise if it were all to melt -- not that anyone thinks that will happen anytime soon. Still, smaller parts could be destabilized, and understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet will react to future climate change is a big priority for scientists. One important key to building this understanding...
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Melting of Antarctic ice shelves set intensify
2015-10-12 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continue at the present rate. Ice shelves are the floating extensions of the continent's massive land-based ice sheets. While the melting or breakup of floating ice shelves does not directly raise sea level, ice shelves do have a "door stop" effect: They...
Were closer to a Day After Tomorrow ice age than we thought
2015-10-12 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The oceans crash against skyscrapers, making aquatic tunnels of Manhattan streets. Heavy layers of snow pile on endlessly, burying entire civilizations in canopies of white. Eventually, liquid turns to ice, and life as we know it is threatened by an eternal freeze. This is the harrowing disaster scenario of The Day After Tomorrow, a 2004 science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Based on an imagined future of accelerated global warming, the movie was a major...
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