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If you want to see them, you’d better hurry. Iconic glaciers are disappearing — fast.
e river of ice that hugs Mount Grinnell’s high ridges is neither big nor particularly beautiful, but it may be the most accessible glacier in all of North America. In as little as three hours, an average hiker can traverse the mountain’s well-groomed trail to plant a foot on a frozen relic of the Little Ice Age. But if you want to see it, you’d better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing — fast.
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Paris won’t save us, but we've come a long way since Copenhagen
The politics of climate aren't yet where they need to be, but they're light years ahead of where they were in 2009
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Eating lettuce more than three times worse for environment than eating bacon: Study
While studies have shown that eating meat is bad for the environment, a new study has been released that seems to contradict that finding.
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Scientists may have just solved one of the most troubling mysteries about sea-level rise
Scientists have announced a potential solution to a tantalizing puzzle about sea-level rise that’s remained unsolved for more than a decade. In doing so, they’ve helped confirm scientists’ latest estimates of 20th-century glacial melting and our understanding of how sea-level rise fundamentally affects the planet — down to the way it spins on its axis. At issue is a scientific quandary known as “Munk’s enigma,” which was introduced by famed oceanographer...
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Arctic air temperatures highest since 1900, says annual report card
The warming Arctic has set another record. The average air temperature over Arctic land reached 1.3 degrees Celsius above average for the year ending in September. That's the highest since observations began in 1900. The new mark was noted in the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Arctic centres on the North Pole and reaches into North America and Eurasia.
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Anthony Watts' #AGU15 poster on US temperature trends
Anthony Watts has a poster at this year's AGU Fall Meeting. He is very proud of the effort he made (his WUWT article is archived here). He is also looking over his shoulder, fearful of a conspiracy to stop him from publishing.
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We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we won’t see one for a long time
Before fossil fuels rendered this moot, conditions were nearly right. By Scott K. Johnson.
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How Melting Ice Changes One Country’s Way of Life
Late one quiet November night in the village of Niaqornat, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle on Greenland’s west coast, the sled dogs began to howl. No one knew for sure, but some of the villagers suspected the dogs had heard the exhalations of narwhals. The whales with the spiral unicorn tusks usually swim into Uummannaq Fjord this time of year as they migrate south. The next morning most of the community’s men set out in small boats to try to bag...
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Who Needs A Shovel? Paramus Family Melts Snowfall Away
PARAMUS, N.J. — Unlike most New Jerseyans, the Parikh family of Paramus couldn't wait for Winter Storm Jonas -- it let them try out their one-of-a-kind geothermal/solar snow-melt system for the first time.The snow might have climbed over two feet in some parts of Bergen and Passaic counties, but the heated driveway and walkway outside the Parikh house melted an inch and a half an hour.
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Anchorage is so snow-starved it has to haul snow in by train for Iditarod start
How weird has Anchorage's weather been this winter? Weird enough that an Alaska Railroad spokesman said Monday that a train will deliver seven rail cars loaded with snow to the state's largest city this week in time for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start on Saturday. On top of that, the route for the Anchorage ceremonial start may not run the full 11 miles from Fourth Avenue to Campbell Airstrip, said Stan Hooley, Iditarod CEO, in a brief statement...
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“The Old Normal Is Gone”: February Shatters Global Temperature Records
Our planet’s preliminary February temperature data are in, and it’s now abundantly clear: Global warming is going into overdrive. There are dozens of global temperature datasets, and usually I (and my climate journalist colleagues) wait until the official ones are released about the middle of the following month to announce a record-warm month at the global level. But this month’s data is so extraordinary that there’s no need to wait...
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Up to 13 Million Americans Are at Risk of Being Washed Away
New research highlights a threatened coastal region where attitudes capture the nuances of the climate change debate. By Eric Roston.
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Americans are suddenly taking global warming way more seriously
Finally, a new U.S. Gallup poll indicates that more people from the U.S. are concerned about global warming now than before. "Climate change denial is simply no longer plausible, and the American people are recognizing that". A Gallup poll released this week shows an all-time high of 65 percent of Americans who said climate change was caused by human activities, up from 55 percent just past year. For the latest survey, researchers...
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What we’re doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say
If you dig deep enough into the Earth’s climate change archives, you hear about the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. And then you get scared. This is a time period, about 56 million years ago, when something mysterious happened — there are many ideas as to what — that suddenly caused concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to spike, far higher than they are right now. The planet proceeded to warm rapidly...
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The scientist who first warned of climate change says it’s much worse than we thought
We read James Hansen’s terrifying new climate study, so you don’t have to. By Amelia Urry.
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'Blocking-high' pressure systems spawn most of the warming that melts Greenland surface ice, study says
Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. These dramatic trends and global sea-level rise are linked, according to a study coauthored by Jennifer Francis, a research professor in Rutgers University's Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. During Greenland summers, melting Arctic sea ice favors stronger and more frequent "blocking-high" pressure systems, which spin clockwise, stay largely...
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Antarctic Ice Melting Could Raise Sea Levels Nearly 50 Feet By 2500
Last December, the world’s politicians finally acknowledged what almost every climatologist has been saying for ages: The world is warming, and we are mostly responsible. A new study published in the journal Nature reveals just how catastrophic our manipulation of the world’s climate may be. By 2500, the continued melting of the Antarctic land ice will cause a whopping 15 meters (about 49 feet) in global sea level rise. “This could spell disaster for many low-lying cities,”...
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World's southernmost polar bears losing almost a fifth of their body weight as ice shrinks: study
The world’s southernmost population of polar bears has already lost significant amounts of body weight after decades of shrinking sea ice with breeding females suffering the most, says new research from the Ontario government. “They’re in poorer condition now than they were in the 1980s,” said Martyn Obbard, of the province’s natural resources department, one of the co-authors of the paper published by the National Research Council.
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Peer Inside the Alaskan Permafrost Tunnel That Doubles as a Science Lab
Beginning in 2011, engineers began to expand the Permafrost Tunnel, citing an increased need for understanding how permafrost will respond to global warming. By Gloria Dickie.
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Bill Nye Says Climate Change Denial Is "Running Out of Steam," Thanks to Millennials
Famed science educator Bill Nye has long been an outspoken critic of people who continue to doubt climate change, the main driver of freaky weather patterns, rising global temperatures and sea level rise around the globe. In an interview with Mic, Nye said that despite lingering skepticisms, there is nearly 100% scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is here to stay — and people are becoming increasingly...
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