Climate Change
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How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the planet's climate | Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps and Zoë Thomas
Melting Antarctic ice can trigger effects on the other side of the globe. Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson Sept. 13, 2017 (The Conversation) -- Melting of Antarctica's ice can trigger rapid warming on the ...
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US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change | Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen
Aug. 28, 2017 (Nature) -- Multiple researchers who received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy have been asked to remove references to “climate change” and “global warming” from the ...
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Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk. | Richard Heinberg
We're not all ready to have the same conversation, but perhaps that's a good place to start July 26, 2017 (Common Dreams) -- My most recent essay, in which I discussed a highly publicized ...
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The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells
Fossils by Heartless Machine. In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the ...
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Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP
Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf ...
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Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl
A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact ...
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July 2017 Stormwatch: Climate Change | John Michael Greer
Don your waterproof boots; we’re going to visit a planetwide flood zone.July 5, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Many years ago, not long after I first got onto the internet, I created a website to try to ...
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Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews
The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had ...
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Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute
A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further ...
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‘The Power to Create a New World’: Trump and the Environmental Challenge Ahead | Zarefah Baroud
Zarefah Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2017 Catastrophic climate change is no longer a subject for argument, at least on a mainstream level within the science community. Yet, as temperatures ...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos
Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ...
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