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Glaciers draining Antarctic basin destabilized, big sea level rise all but certain
2014-05-12 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Today, researchers at UC Irvine and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have announced results indicating that glaciers across a large area of West Antarctica have been destabilized and that there is little that will stop their continuing retreat. These glaciers are all that stand between the ocean and a massive basin of ice that sits below sea level. Should the sea invade this basin, we'd be committed to several meters of sea level rise. Even in the short term, the new findings should increase our...
Antarctic Ice 'Cork' Melting Could Lead to Unstoppable Sea Rise
2014-05-10 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: If a relatively small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean that would significantly increase global sea level for the next 10,000 years, according to a new report. The ice plug sits on a ridge beneath the East Antarctic Ice Shelf in a region called the Wilkes Basin that has previously been overlooked in sea level projections, because it has appeared to be stable compared to regions of the West...
VIDEO: Floatels: Hotels for the open sea
2014-05-09 12:20:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How do you build a floating hotel that can withstand 100ft waves? The BBC's Sharanjit Leyl gets a tour of the latest 'floatel'.
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....
Climate change not fully to blame for melting sea ice: Study
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A newly published paper says climate change caused by humans could be responsible for as little as half the wholesale melting of sea ice in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland that has amazed and alarmed scientists. The finding, published in Nature magazine, should caution those attempting to turn global theories into regional predictions, said co-author Mike Wallace of the University of Washington. "Whenever you start to look at local climate trends, you have to look at the internal variability...
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