Are we close to a tipping point? Greenland Ice Sheet suffers unprecedented...
Surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet reached up to 97% of the ice sheet area by July 12, an unprecedented level of melting, according to readings gathered and cross-referenced from three different...
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Image Caption (NASA): Extent of surface melt over Greenland's ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet...
View ArticleGlobal Warming on West Antarctic Ice Sheet three times the global average
Original article from San Fransisco Bay Area Indymedia, Dec 23rd, 2012 7:16 PM: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd...
View ArticleGreenland Ice Mass change rate 2012
From Hansen and Sato 2012 - Dec. 26, 2012: Update of Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Loss (PDF). Discussion of how the loss rate is changing.- Fig. 1.weiterlesen
View ArticleIs Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea...
Greenland Ice Mass change rate 2012Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss from Greenland and...
View ArticleGreenland winter melting Jan Feb 2013
Images from the NSIDC 19 February Greenland Ice Sheet Today website
View ArticleGreenland melting occurring during winter with above average temperatures
Satellite data for the first several weeks of 2013 is showing that melting is occurring in south east Greenland. In summer this would be expected, but January-February is the dead of winter. Some...
View ArticleVolcanic activity adds further to instability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Volcanic activity detected near the Executive Committee range in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica adds another factor to the instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). A small eruption under...
View ArticleIce Sheets and Sea level: what the past tells us is likely
Watch this informative video By Peter Sinclair and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise and past climates. "We are still potentially underestimating...
View ArticleWest Antarctic ice sheet melting accelerates over last 4 years
By Tim Radford. The rate of ice loss from the West Antarctic appears to have accelerated sharply in the last four years, European scientists say.LONDON, 20 December - Ice is being lost over the West...
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