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Greenland melt turns to music
2013-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Greenland's 2012 summer ice melt was the largest on record. Ice specialist Marco Tedesco visits Greenland every year, and, tired of trying to convey the science of the melting ice with graphs and statistics, he found someone who could turn his data into music. Living on Earth's Emmett FitzGerald has the story. Transcript CURWOOD: Well, a team of scientists and artists at the City College of New York has come up with a way to listen to glaciers melting. It's all part of a multimedia exhibit...
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Thin clouds drove Greenland's record-breaking 2012 ice melt
2013-04-03 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Three million cubic kilometers of ice won't wash into the ocean overnight, but researchers have been tracking increasing melt rates since at least 1979. Last summer, however, the melt was so large that similar events show up in ice core records only once every 150 years or so over the last four millennia. "In July 2012, a historically rare period of extended surface melting...
Use Caution Spreading Manure with Rapid Snow Melt
2013-04-02 17:22:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency As winter’s snowfall and freezing rain gives way to warming temperatures, rapid melting and potential for flooding pose challenges for manure management among the more than 25,000 livestock farms in Minnesota, warns the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). Farmers who spread solid manure during winter must ensure that it doesn’t run off with rapid snowmelt flowing to ditches, streams and other waters. read more
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Melt 'causes Antarctic sea ice rise'
2013-04-01 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves. This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean. The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter. This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these...
Summer melt season getting longer on Antarctic Peninsula
2013-03-27 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice shelves in the area and rising sea level. The Antarctic Peninsula -- a mountainous region extending northwards towards South America -- is warming much faster than the rest of Antarctica. Temperatures have risen by up to 3 oC since the 1950s -- three times more than the global average. This is a result...
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