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The big melt: Arctic sea ice hits record lows

2016-06-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: It was a warm spring for Arctic sea ice, with sea ice extents reaching record low levels in January, February, and April. Now, scientists say that May beat previous ice cover low records by a huge amount. Last month, the Arctic averaged twelve million square kilometers of sea ice. The previous record low, set in 2004, was more than half a million square kilometers greater than this years record. In other words, this Mays Arctic ice cover was smaller than the previously set record by an area...

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50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers, While They Knew About Climate Change

2016-04-15 22:04:12| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world's most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier. The must-read documents, published by The Center for International Environmental Law , strengthen the hand of the numerous attorneys general investigating whether ExxonMobil engaged in a cover-up to mislead the public and investors about the dangers of human-caused climate change.

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The big melt: Antarctica's retreating ice may reshape Earth

2015-02-28 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Chicago Tribune: From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging thousands of feet below to re-shape Earth. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea - 130 billion tons of ice per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. That's the weight of more than 356,000 Empire State Buildings,...

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The Big Melt accelerates

2014-05-20 14:40:16| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Centuries from now, a large swath of the West Antarctic ice sheet is likely to be gone, its hundreds of trillions of tons of ice melted, causing a four-foot rise in already swollen seas. Scientists reported last week that the scenario may be inevitable, with new research concluding that some giant glaciers had passed the point of no return, possibly setting off a chain reaction that could doom the rest of the ice sheet. For many, the research signaled that changes in the earths climate have already...

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Big Melt Expected for Canadian Arctic Glaciers

2013-03-07 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: A fifth of Canada's Arctic Archipelago glaciers may disappear by the end of the century, contributing 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) to sea-level rise, new research finds. For the study, published online Thursday (March 7) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists used computer models to predict how the glaciers would respond to future climate change. The results were not reassuring. "Even if we assume that global warming is not happening quite so fast, it is still highly likely that...

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