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Humpback Whales Present in Antarctic Waters Over Winter a Surprise to Scientists
2013-09-09 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Humpback whale researchers listening to underwater recordings got a surprise upon hearing data collected in Antarctic waters over winter. It had been assumed that all humpbacks migrate to equatorial waters during the winter, but acoustic data from underwater recording stations along the ice shelf revealed the sounds of humpback whales even during the austral winter months. The find came by way of a classic case of being in the right place at the right time, when researcher Ilse Van Opzeeland,...
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Scientists studying solar radiation management as a way to cool planet
2013-09-08 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, blasted enough fine particles and sulfur dioxide gas into the atmosphere to envelop the Earth in a high-altitude cloud for the better part of two months. When scientists checked in 1992, they determined that the cloud had deflected enough sunlight to cool the planet by about 1 degree. Now, with the planet warming inexorably and the threat of long-term climate change looming, some experts are wondering whether the time may have...
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NASA scientists link climate change with increase in wildfires
2013-09-08 03:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The devastating wildfire in Southern California that destroyed 26 homes and threatened hundreds of others in the San Jacinto Mountains before it was mostly contained on Sunday has prompted some scientists to examine whether climate change has impacted on the onset and severity of wildfire season. The so-called Silver Fire is expected to be fully contained by Monday, according to California officials. But on Friday, as the fire moved toward Palm Springs and threatened some 500 homes, NASA hosted...
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Scientists link extreme weather to man-made climate change
2013-09-08 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Man-made climate change may have contributed to half of the extreme weather events of 2012, scientists said in a new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The report (PDF), published Friday by scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is based on studies of about a dozen extreme weather events from around the world in 2012 -- from northern Europes unusually wet summer to Hurricane Sandy. The scientists were aiming to answer the...
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Seas may be rising faster than predicted: scientists
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The melting of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is accelerating and may trigger faster sea level rise than predicted, according to leaked details of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Greenland's ice added six times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the prior 10 years, according to details of a draft 2200-page study by the UN agency, obtained by Bloomberg. The Antarctic experienced a five-fold increase, prompting the UN to raise its forecast...
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