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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Nuuk beachfront real estate Greenland can warm 2-4°C in one year	Joseph Romm	21 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A new article in Science Express (PDF)($ub. req'd), 'High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years,' examines, 'The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period.' The article explores the underlying causes of ... ... abrupt shifts of northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation resulting in 2-4°K changes in Greenland moisture source temperature from one year to the next. The article conclud ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Greenland (all these topics)

Well, Sheet Greenland ice sheet is meeeelllting, it's meeelllting!		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:17 AM on 11 Dec 2007 The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate! As in, faster than it has since satellite measurements began in 1979, and with 10 percent more melting in 2007 than in the previous record year of 2005. Allow researcher Konrad Steffen to put it into perspective for you: "The amount of ice lost by Greenland over the last year is the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps, or a ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland, news (all these topics)

You Say Potato, I Say Climate Emergency Global warming brings Greenlanders potatoes, destroys their heritage		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:43 AM on 14 Sep 2007 It gets lost in all the gloom and doom, but global warming does have its upside. In the sub-Arctic south of Greenland, rising temperatures over the last five to 10 years have brought residents more potatoes, broccoli, and flowers, and have made officials optimistic about economically beneficial opportunities for drilling and mining as sea ice melts. Of co ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland, news (all these topics)

The phrase 'glacial change' needs to be retired Glacial melting is accelerating more quickly than projected	Joseph Romm	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Climate change is occurring much faster than the IPCC models project. The Greenland ice sheet is a prime example. Robert Correll, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, said in Ilulissat recently: We have seen a massive acceleration of the speed with which these glaciers are moving into the sea. The ice is moving at two metres an hour on a front 5km [3 miles] long and 1,500 metres deep. That means that this one glacier puts enough fresh water into the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Greenland (all these topics)

A very good article on 'tipping points' And at what temperature Greenland's ice sheet will melt	Joseph Romm	18 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Climate tipping points have been the subject of much debate and confusion. Now Professor Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia has published a very good piece, 'Tipping points in the Earth System,' giving some intellectual substance to the notion. Not surprisingly, the tipping point Prof. Lenton worries about most is the disintegration of Greenland's ice sheet. He told The Guardian: We know that ice sheets in the last ice age collapsed faster than any cur ...
Topics: climate, climate science, Greenland (all these topics)

New island 'made' by global warming	Erik Hoffner	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In the same week that science discovers a new, earth-like planet, we get a new island off the coast of Greenland. From The Independent: The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.Yikes.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland (all these topics)

Greenland goes dirty hippie Overreacts to global warming	David Roberts	15 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Greenland has joined the ranks of the alarmists by hysterically overreacting to global warming.Look, Greenland's an advocate. I respect that. We just can't expect it to to accurately reflect the science. Frankly, it lacks credibility.
Topics: Greenland, climate (all these topics)

Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says We hate to give you bad news without some good, so here goes. The bad news from a study published this week in Science is that, by comparing satellite data from 2002-2005 to earlier data, researchers have determined that Greenland's ice sheet is melting about three times faster than it was five years ago. Put another way, about 57 cubic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Heh Heh, He Said Buttress Greenland is melting fast and worrying scientists		26 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Heh Heh, He Said Buttress Greenland is melting fast and worrying scientists Greenland's name may soon be more accurate, as its two-mile-thick ice sheet is melting twice as fast as it was five years ago -- faster than climate models predicted. Since 1991, the average winter temperature has risen almost 10 degrees; by 2005, the landmass was losing up to 52 cubic miles of ice a year. Meltwater has lubricated the bedrock beneath, caus ...
Topics: climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Au revoir, Greenland	David Roberts	24 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Meanwhile, over at the L.A. Times, we find that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than climate models predicted. Hey, I figure, more freshwater for us! Our grandkids? Eff them.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland (all these topics)

Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag? Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says		24 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag? Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions could -- maaaaybe -- stave off a catastrophic rise in sea levels that in coming centuries could return the earth to conditions last seen 129,000 years ago. We would never have guessed, but fortunately scientists keep pointing it out -- as in this week's climate-disruption-centric issue ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected		03 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected Another day, another round of studies showing the world's ice sheets melting faster than expected, another outbreak of indifference from the public, another resigned sigh from enviros, another bout of empty rhetoric from legislators. K, see you tomorrow! Oh, what, you want details? All right: The lucky ice sheets featured in thes ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Below the Melt Greenland ice sheet melting speedily, making seas rise faster		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Below the Melt Greenland ice sheet melting speedily, making seas rise faster New research indicates that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than we thought, will be gone sooner than we thought, and may raise sea levels more than we thought. Whee! The new study, published in Science, says Greenland's glaciers -- among the earth's largest freshwater reservoirs -- are sliding into the Atlantic at twice the rat ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change		25 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ...
Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics)

Green Unpleasant Land		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Green Unpleasant Land A record quantity of northern polar ice was lost this year, according to scientists who presented their findings at a conference of the American Geophysical Union held this weekend in San Francisco. Surface melt in Greenland, for example, was the highest in recorded history, and extended to previously unaffected altitudes. In total, there were about 265,000 square miles of melt on the Greenland ice ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, Greenland, ozone (all these topics)

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