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Photos: Climate change is making California look like another planet
2016-03-31 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: When Thomas Heinser showed his pictures of California's parched landscape in a gallery last month, people couldn't tell what they were looking at. Last year marked the driest summer California has seen in at last 500 years, causing water shortages and resulting in forest fires throughout the state. Shot from the side of a doorless helicopter, Heinser's aerial photographs look more like abstract art than fields and valleys--driving home the transformative effects of climate change in California....
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Scientists model a new mechanism of climate doom
2016-03-31 15:08:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle PI: This image shot from the International Space Station shows the snout of the Upsala Glacier (49.88°S, 73.3°W) on the Argentine side of the North Patagonian Icefield. Ice flow in this glacier comes from the north (right in this rotated image). Dark lines of rocky debris (moraine) within the ice give a sense of the slow ice flow from right to left. The water color in Lago Argentino is related to the glacier flow. The lake receives most of the ice from the glacier and thus receives most of the "rock...
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Climate forecasts underestimate sea-rise impact of Antarctic thaw
2016-03-31 15:08:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sea levels could rise 50 cm (20 inches) more this century than had been expected, according to a report published on Wednesday which found that Antarctic ice will melt faster than previously thought. Climate scientists at two U.S. universities said the most recent U.N. report on the effects of global warming had underestimated the rate at which the ice covering the continent would melt. That report, issued in 2013, said the worst case of man-made climate change would mean a sea-level rise of...
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The man who discovered climate change finally gets his due
2016-03-31 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: French glaciologist Claude Lorius, 84, has taken part in more than 20 polar expeditions, mostly to Antarctica, and was one of the first scientists to foresee the ice melt now occurring in the region. He returned to Antarctica for the filming of "Ice and the Sky," which tells his story. Photo courtesy of "Ice and the Sky." The blizzard lashed at the men digging out a giant red bus-tank hybrid out of snowdrifts on the Antarctic Peninsula. The whiteout lasted 10 days, and by the end, 23-year-old...
Poor should take 'wait and see' approach to climate deal
2016-03-31 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A Malaysian advocacy group is urging poor countries to skip a signing ceremony for the landmark Paris climate agreement in New York next month. The Third World Network is circulating a memo urging developing countries not to "rush" to sign onto the deal, but instead to hold out for many of the assurances from rich countries that some feel eluded them in last year's negotiations. Among them: the rich world's pledges to contain emissions before 2020 and more details on how wealthy countries will discharge...
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