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Gaps in data on Arctic temperatures account for the pause in global warming
2013-11-17 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It was the evidence that climate change sceptics loved to cite. While the scientific communitys warnings about global warming had become ever more convincing, the critics pointed time and again to graphs showing the rise in the worlds average surface temperatures has slowed down since 1998 a fact extensively interpreted by many vocal opponents as a fundamental failure in the basic science of climate change. Now the scientists appear to have come up with an explanation. That much-vaunted pause...
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Tiny algae signal big changes for warming Arctic lakes
2013-11-15 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The mighty polar bear has long been the poster child for the effects of global warming in the Arctic, but the microscopic diatom tells an equally powerful story. Diatoms are a type of algae that form the base of the food chain in watery habitats the world over. Disturbances among lake diatoms have exposed the impacts of rapid warming in the Hudson Bay Lowlands of eastern Canada, researchers reported Oct. 9 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. View of Hudson Bay from space. Red dot indicates...
Arctic ice 'recovering slightly' after last years dramatic melt
2013-11-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean recovered slightly after the dramatic and unprecedented melt in 2012, but still registered one of the lowest levels on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). In a provisional report on the state of the worlds climate in 2013, it said the Arctic reached its lowest sea ice extent in its annual cycle on September 13th, at 5.1 million square km - significantly higher than last years record low of 3.4 million square km. According...
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'Missing heat' discovery prompts new estimate global warming: Arctic warming fast
2013-11-13 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An interdisciplinary team of researchers say they have found 'missing heat' in the climate system, casting doubt on suggestions that global warming has slowed or stopped over the past decade. Observational data on which climate records are based cover only 84 per cent of the planet -- with Polar regions and parts of Africa largely excluded. Now Dr Kevin Cowtan, a computational scientist at the University of York, and Robert Way, a cryosphere specialist and PhD student at the University of Ottawa,...
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China, Norway may team up in search for Arctic oil
2013-11-13 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Norway is deciding whether to team up with China to explore for oil in Iceland, Icelandic authorities said, setting up a rare cooperation for the two since a diplomatic row over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Norway has the right to join an exploration license with Chinese oil firm CNOOC to look for oil in the waters between Iceland and Norway's Jan Mayen, a tiny speck of land in the Arctic. Communications between Beijing and Oslo have been mostly cool...
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