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Scientists See Record Decline In Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheets
2014-08-21 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Data from the European Space Agency`s (ESA) CryoSat-2 spacecraft has been used to map elevation and elevation changes in both Greenland and Antarctica by a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany. The new maps, which are the most complete to ever be created from a single satellite mission, reveal the ice sheets are losing volume at an unprecedented yearly rate (approximately 500 cubic kilometers). The study findings and maps were recently published in The Cryosphere....
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Scientists Say Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cont Wreak Havoc on Climate
2014-08-18 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Two new scientific studies, reported by Climate News Network, have added still more links between human-caused release of greenhouse gases and climate change. In Austria, scientist Ben Marzeion of University of Innsbrucks Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics was part of a team that tracked changes in glaciers around the world between 1851 and 2010, using 19th-century photos and paintings as a baseline. Computer models allowed them to take into account natural factors like volcanic eruptions...
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'Mission Blue' film charts scientist's quest to save oceans
2014-08-15 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: From the Galapagos Islands to Australia's Coral Sea and a marine park off the coast of Mexico, the documentary "Mission Blue" navigates the journey of renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle as she travels the globe to save the planet's threatened seas. With stunning underwater footage, the film that airs on Friday on the online streaming service Netflix and in selected U.S. theaters, shows the devastating impact of pollution, overfishing and climate change on the oceans through the eyes of the renowned...
Highly influential' scientists still rare in the developing world
2014-08-15 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The latest list of the world's most highly cited researchers features few scientists based in developing countries -- and none from Africa outside South Africa -- exposing the North--South divide and raising questions on how the impact of science is measured. Thomson Reuters has issued its The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 report based on analysis of recent citations of published papers across science. But only 86 out of the approximately 3,200 scientists on the list are affiliated...
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Australia: Global cooling: climate scientists keen meet Tony Abbott's business adviser
2014-08-15 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbotts top business adviser, Maurice Newman, has been invited to meet climate scientists following his assertion that the world is in fact in danger of cooling, rather than warming. Newman used an opinion piece in the Australian newspaper on Thursday to say the world was ill prepared for a period of global cooling, accusing governments of being hostage to warming propaganda from climate scientists. On Friday Tim Flannery, head of the Climate Council, told Guardian Australia he was...
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