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Ice-free Arctic may be in our future
2013-05-09 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Analyses of the longest continental sediment core ever collected in the Arctic, recently completed by an international team led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, provide "absolutely new knowledge" of Arctic climate from 2.2 to 3.6 million years ago. "While existing geologic records from the Arctic contain important hints about this time period, what we are presenting is the most continuous archive of information about past climate change from the entire Arctic...
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Arctic Ocean to be ice-free during summers before 2050
2013-04-12 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: By the time today's babies graduate college, there's a very good chance they could celebrate with a cruise across the North Pole. That's according to the latest study on Arctic summer sea ice, the frozen pack that lingers through the Northern Hemisphere summer. In past decades, there's been less summer ice, and it's growing thinner. The research, published online Feb. 21 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says major sea ice loss could come within a decade or two, though some ice will...
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Climate Change Seen Leaving Arctic Ice-Free by 2050
2013-04-12 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The Earths northern polar region will be almost ice-free in the warmest months by 2050, sooner than previously estimated, according to a study by two federal government scientists who work on climate change. The researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used three separate methods to predict the sea- ice trends in the Arctic Ocean, and their estimates for 2020 to 2060 forecast elimination of most ice during the Northern Hemispheres warmest months, according to a statement....
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Norway's Oil Future Seen With Ice-Free Arctic's Barrels: Energy
2013-04-04 17:47:06| Appliances - Topix.net
In the wake of plummeting oil output, Norway, western Europe's biggest petroleum producer, may have found its new money spigot: an ice-free expanse of the Arctic Ocean known as the Barents Sea.
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NOAA to Map Alaskas Increasingly Ice-Free Arctic Waters
2013-02-28 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has launched a program to update some of its nautical charts, thanks largely to climate change. The revisions affect Alaska's coast, which has America's only Arctic seafront. As a result of global warming, ice that has historically blocked Arctic waters, even in summer, has been plummeting in recent years, with 2012 ice melting back to the smallest extent since satellite records began. And as sea ice recedes, said NOAA Coast Survey director...
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