Tag Archives: oceans

(Cryosp)here today, gone tomorrow

2012-8-11 – 7:09 pm

“The alarming fact is that this year’s minimum sea ice extent is already the 6th-lowest on record — and there’s still about a month to go in the melt season.”

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Stunning Greenland Ice Melt

2012-7-24 – 8:46 pm

“unprecedented heat leads to unprecedented melting”

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Arctic warming linked to combination of reduced sea ice and global atmospheric warming

2012-7-7 – 7:30 am

Nothing to which you should pay attention, just Destruction of Life on the Planet as We know It, move along

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Ocean Heat Flux

2012-7-4 – 4:17 pm

From the Arctic Sea Ice Blog… There are many factors involved in the current long-term decline of Arctic sea ice. From relatively small ones like river discharge, precipitation and soot, to bigger factors like atmospheric patterns and air temperatures. The possibly biggest factor of all is also the factor that is the most unknown and [...]

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Scientists Conclude Rise in Sea Level Cannot Be Stopped

2012-7-4 – 2:22 pm

On July 2, 2012 Reuters reporter Nina Chestney noted a concern that this weblog also related before with particular concern for East Coast cities, e.g., New York City, Norfolk, etc. Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed [...]

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Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity’s Ability to Feed Itself

2012-3-3 – 3:02 pm

The horrific warning of the end of life on the planet as we know it comes from paleoceanographers, who examine cores of sediment from some 56 million years ago.

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About to be fracked over

2012-2-27 – 3:01 pm

Speaking of a quicker end to Life on the Planet as We know It, the totalitarians capitalists are telling us that Alaska has “a mother lode of shale oil and natural gas.”

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A Shared Concern with Declining Himalayan Glaciers

2012-2-13 – 1:15 pm

Praful Bidwai gives a wakeup call.

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On Top

2011-8-6 – 8:40 am

Something about alarming regularity

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Studying the Early Anthropocene

2011-7-1 – 8:34 am

Taking pride in ecocide?

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