 Stories About: climate AND Greenland AND news
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Well, Sheet
Greenland ice sheet is meeeelllting, it's meeelllting! |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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You Say Potato, I Say Climate Emergency
Global warming brings Greenlanders potatoes, destroys their heritage |
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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 ... |
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Sheet Happens ... Faster
Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Heh Heh, He Said Buttress
Greenland is melting fast and worrying scientists |
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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 ... |
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Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag?
Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans
Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Below the Melt
Greenland ice sheet melting speedily, making seas rise faster |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics) |
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