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Greenland Ice Melt 'Accelerating' Climate Change Awakens 'Sleeping Giant'
2014-03-16 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Scientists have known for decades that Greenlands ice sheet is melting, but they may have underestimated just how much water the second-largest ice sheet on the planet is shedding. New research indicates that a key section of northeast Greenland thought to be stable is actually dumping billions of tons of water into the ocean annually after a barrier of ice debris that had blocked its flow finally gave way. "We're seeing an acceleration of ice loss," Michael Bevis, professor of earth sciences...
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Study Says Climate Change Accelerating Greenland Ice Loss
2014-03-16 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Greenland`s ice sheet is rapidly melting in areas previously believed to be stable, leading to accelerated rises in global sea levels, according to a study published Sunday. While scientists have been aware that climate change has caused Greenland`s ice sheet to thin for decades, melting in the sheet`s northeast region has been discovered for the first time, USA Today reports. Ice loss in the northeast region of Greenland has nearly tripled since 2003, with the ice sheet retreating 12.4 miles...
The price of ignoring climate change is far higher than we think
2014-03-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: In the future, society will have to pay for each puff of carbon emissions emitted today. And the bill from the damages--from rising seas and the spread of diseases--is going to cause sticker shock. Critics of strong national climate change policies often talk about how much taking action costs the economy. What they usually dont mention is the cost of doing nothing. Its easy to ignore. The figure is hard to pin down and involves estimating the economic damage that will be caused by climate...
Climate change denial should be considered criminally negligent
2014-03-16 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Organised campaigns that spread inaccurate information about climate change science should be considered as being criminally negligent and showing a willful disregard for human life, an academic has said. In an article published by the Conversation, Lawrence Torcello, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology who has researched the moral implications of global warming denialism, talks about the 2009 earthquake that devastated L`Aquila, Italy. The disaster killed...
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Climate change: Number 'dry days' could go up
2014-03-15 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Aaj Ki Khabar: Areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation in narrower windows of time, study results showed. Regions such as the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia, and all Mediterranean climate regions around the world would likely see the greatest increase in the number of "dry days" per year, said the study. "Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation...
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