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While our planet melts, GOP pleads ignorance

2014-06-07 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Olympian: And theres a word that should get everybodys attention. Last month, two groups of scientists, publishing separately in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters, issued reports that came to alarmingly similar conclusions: The melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet has reached a point of no return. If greenhouse gases stopped spewing forth tomorrow, wed still face the grim prospect of steadily rising seas from this unstoppable melt. So it would be a good idea to save what ice we still...

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Republicans Divided Over Climate Change As Antarctica Rises And Melts

2014-05-18 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBS: Antarctic ice can be up to 2.6 miles thick, yet researchers say that the continent of Antarctica is rising unusually fast due to climate change. Researchers told Live Science on Friday that a combination of climate change and hot rock miles underneath the earths surface flowing much faster than expected has caused the continent to rise in a similar fashion to mattresses decompressing after people get off of them. Grace Nield, a geophysicist at Newcastle University in England, told Live Science...

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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts

2014-05-12 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported Monday. The finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable. The rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that...

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Global Warming: 10-13 Feet Increased Sea Levels Once East Antarctica Melts

2014-05-08 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

IBT: East Antarctica, largely receiving small attention before, has now become the focus of a study where if it succumbs to global warming and melts could push sea levels to rise by 10-13 feet high, enough to drown coastal cities from Tokyo to Mumbai to New York. The world's fifth-largest continent, Antarctica is divided into two unequal halves. The ice in West Antarctica goes through below sea level up to the ocean floor. The ice on East Antarctica, however, sits on a landmass that is above sea level....

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