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Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and Climate Change
2014-06-02 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has been published today (Monday 2 June) which brings together a collection of papers on many of the unresolved issues relating to the Southern Ocean. Professor Michael Meredith from the British Antarctic Survey was a guest editor on the issue; 'The Southern Ocean: new insights into circulation, carbon and climate'. The research includes: Why greenhouse gases and the ozone holes are melting the Arctic sea ice but are having...
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Quickly Rising Antarctica Suggests 'Runny' Earth
2014-05-19 13:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Antarctica is rising unusually quickly, revealing that hot rock in the Earth's mantle hundreds of miles below the icy continent is flowing much faster than expected, researchers say. Antarctic ice is more than 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) thick on some parts of the continent, a reminder that glaciers that were miles thick once covered many parts of Earth's surface. When these ice sheets shrink, as is happening now in the world's polar regions due to climate change, the underlying Earth rebounds...
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Republicans Divided Over Climate Change As Antarctica Rises And Melts
2014-05-18 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Antarctic ice can be up to 2.6 miles thick, yet researchers say that the continent of Antarctica is rising unusually fast due to climate change. Researchers told Live Science on Friday that a combination of climate change and hot rock miles underneath the earths surface flowing much faster than expected has caused the continent to rise in a similar fashion to mattresses decompressing after people get off of them. Grace Nield, a geophysicist at Newcastle University in England, told Live Science...
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Global warming: It's a point of no return in West Antarctica. What happens next?
2014-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: ay, we hosted a Nasa conference on the state of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which, it could be said, provoked something of a reaction. "This Is What a Holy Shit Moment for Global Warming Looks Like," ran a headline in Mother Jones magazine. We announced that we had collected enough observations to conclude that the retreat of ice in the Amundsen sea sector of West Antarctica was unstoppable, with major consequences it will mean that sea levels will rise one metre worldwide. What's more, its...
Future Ice Melt Patterns In Antarctica
2014-05-16 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Planetsave: One of the main impacts of climate change is sea level rise, brought about through melting of the worlds ice sheets and glaciers, as well as through thermal expansion of the oceans. The vast majority of worlds fresh water is locked up in the massive ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland. Of the two, Antarctica is by far the larger, holding about twelve times as much ice as Greenland. While the antarctic continent has not yet contributed a great deal to rising sea levels, it has the potential...
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