Melting Glaciers

Lisa Murkowski’s bid to become a climate outlaw 0
Posted 2 months ago Why is Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) behaving like an outlaw?
The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in the summer by 2030, or sooner.

Melting ice could lead to massive waves of climate refugees 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The International Institute for Environment and Development has analyzed the effect of a 10-meter rise in sea level, providing a sense of what the melting of the world’s largest ice sheets could mean. The IIED study begins by pointing out that 634 million people live along coasts at or below 10 meters above sea level. This massive vulnerable group includes one eighth of the world’s urban population.
Another one bites the dust, literally

Bolivia’s 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya glacier is gone 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Like the Wicked Witch of the West, the world is melting -- and fast. The University of Zurich’s World Glacier Monitoring Service reported earlier this year, “The new data continues the global trend in accelerated ice loss over the past few decades.” The rate of ice loss is twice as fast as a decade ago.

“The main thing that we can do to stop this is reduce greenhouse gases” said Michael Zemp, a researcher at the University of Zurich’s Department of Geography.

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