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What's melting Greenland's ice sheet? Night clouds, say scientists
2016-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Clouds play an important role in melting Greenlands ice sheet, say scientists. A team of scientists from the University of Leuven in Belgium have found that clouds are raising the temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet by up to 3 degrees, contributing to almost 30 percent of the sheets melting, according a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. With climate change at the back of our minds, and the disastrous consequences of a global sea level rise, we need to understand...
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Greenland's sponge-like snow can no longer absorb meltwater, adding sea level rise
2016-01-11 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Today: People already know that global warming triggered by man-made climate change is causing massive ice sheets in Greenland to melt, which in turn leads to the alarming rise of global sea levels. Even worse than that, a team of international scientists recently found out that climate change has been hurting the world's biggest island more than previously imagined. In their findings published last week on the scientific journal "Nature," the research team revealed that aside from melting ice sheets,...
Faster retreat of Greenland's ice sheet observed
2015-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Greenland ice sheet, a potentially massive contributor to land-encroaching sea-level rise, lost mass twice as fast between 2003 and 2010 as during the entire 20th century, researchers said on Wednesday. Greenland ice loss contributed to a global average sea level rise of 25mm between 1990 and 2010 - mainly from surface melt, said the research published in the journal Nature. The total mass lost was over 9 000 gigatons (about one billion tons). It was net loss, meaning the difference between...
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Greenlands Rapidly Melting Glaciers Will Result in Rising Sea Levels for Decades to Come
2015-11-15 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A massive Greenland glacier that holds enough water to raise sea levels by half a meter [nearly 20 inches] is melting at speed, according to a new study. The Zachariae Isstrom in northeast Greenland has entered a phase of accelerated retreat, and is losing mass at the rate of 5 billion metric tons a year, according to U.S. scientists. They report in the journal Science that a succession of aerial surveys combined with multiple satellite observations has established that the base of the glacier...
The secrets in Greenlands ice sheets
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: At one point several hundred thousand years ago, snow began falling over the center of the earths largest island. The snow did not melt, and in the years that followed, storms brought even more. All around Greenland, the arctic temperatures remained low enough for the snow to last past spring and summer. It piled up, year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium. Eventually, the snow became the Greenland ice sheet, a blanket of ice so huge that it covered 650,000 square miles...
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