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Arctic Ice Cap Flowing 25 Times Faster into Ocean
2015-01-24 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A remote Arctic ice cap, in the face of warming temperatures and climate change, is now flowing 25 times faster into the ocean compared to 2012, a new study shows. According to satellite images, the southeast region of Austfonna, located in the Svalbard archipelago, is thinning at an incredible rate. In fact, in the last three years alone the region has thinned by more than 50 meters (164 feet) - about one sixth of its original thickness. Consequentially, melting is now occurring within 10...
Obama moves to bring order to groups dealing Arctic warming
2015-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: As Senate votes were rolling in Wednesday--declaring climate change real, but denying mankind's role in it--President Barack Obama was issuing a different kind of decree. In the first executive order after his State of the Union address, the White House created the Arctic Executive Steering Committee, which will attempt to wrangle the numerous agencies in charge of Arctic programs and better coordinate their work in the face of climate change. "Over the past 60 years, climate change has caused...
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Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean
2015-01-23 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 - about one sixth of its original thickness - and that it is now flowing 25 times faster. A team led by scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds combined observations from eight satellite missions, including Sentinel-1A and CryoSat, with results from regional climate models, to unravel the story of ice decline. …
Obama issues Executive Order establishing Arctic Executive Steering Committee to enhance coordination of national efforts in the Arctic
2015-01-22 12:55:33| Green Car Congress
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Obama Issues Order on Arctic Climate Change
2015-01-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing a new panel that will advise the federal government on preserving the Alaskan Arctic. Obama said he was establishing the Arctic Executive Steering Committee to help juggle the variety of tribal, scientific, corporate, and federal interests at play in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen at twice the rate as the rest of the United States. "As the Arctic has changed, the number of Federal working groups created to address...
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