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Humans now major cause of alpine glacier melt, researchers say
2014-08-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Retreating alpine glaciers in a warming world may seem to have an obvious connection. But glaciers respond to environmental changes, well, glacially. At any point, it's hard to tell how much of a glacier's retreat is due to human-triggered factors now and how much is due to natural factors that might have held sway years ago, researchers say. Now comes an analysis estimating that between 1990 and 2010, some 69 percent of the mass lost by the world's alpine glaciers can be traced to human influence...
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Human impact on glacier melt increasing - study
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Human activity is playing an increasing role in the melting of glaciers, Austrian and Canadian scientists have found. One of the most disruptive effects of climate change, glacier retreat leads to rising sea levels, landslides and unpredictable availability of water downstream. Meanwhile, a separate study found ice discharge from the Antarctica could raise sea levels by up to 37cm this century, more than previously thought. Scientists and policymakers are calling for international collaboration...
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Antarctic melt could raise sea levels faster
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Cold, white, forever icy the Antarctic should be the last place to melt in a warming climate. But a new study shows the ice continent could become the major contributor to sea level rise before the end of the century. Melting ice from the frozen continent of Antarctica currently makes up less than 10 percent of the observed rise in global sea levels - the rest comes from the thermal expansion of warming seas, and from melting glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet. But a new analysis by an...
Humans to blame for much of recent glacier melt
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From Alaska to the Alps, photos of today's diminished glaciers contrasted with grainy black-and-white images of their former, more massive states are some of the most widely used examples of the impact of human-caused climate change, with their melt threatening water supplies, enhancing sea level rise, and posing threats like floods from bursting glacial lakes. "Everybody is using [these photos],' said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "But nobody actually...
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Humans to Blame for Much of Recent Glacier Melt
2014-08-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From Alaska to the Alps, photos of today's diminished glaciers contrasted with grainy black-and-white images of their former, more massive states are some of the most widely used examples of the impact of human-caused climate change, with their melt threatening water supplies, enhancing sea level rise, and posing threats like floods from bursting glacial lakes. "Everybody is using [these photos],' said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "But nobody actually...
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