Ice Melt

By Cassandra Brooks | – The U.N.‘s climate panel report released Sept. 25 makes crystal clear that the planet’s oceans, snow and ice are in dire trouble and the damage is causing harm to the people who depend on them. Even with aggressive efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, many nations will struggle to adapt. […]

Climate Change

New research shows that Antarctica’s largest floating ice shelf is highly sensitive to warming of the ocean

The Conversation

By Dan Lowry | – Scientists have long been concerned about the potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea level rise. Much of West Antarctica’s ice lies below sea level, and warming ocean temperatures may lead to runaway ice sheet retreat. Since the last ice age, the ice […]

Climate Change

Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amid the European heat wave, Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute set off a panic this week when she observed that Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice on August 1, the most in recorded history, and half the ice sheet was experiencing some level of melting. She added […]

Climate Change

If Antarctica Melts, Seas will Rise a Gigantic 190 Feet; It has Started Losing Ice Rapidly

The Conversation

By Nerilie Abram, Matthew England, and Matt King | – A record start to summer ice melt in Greenland this year has drawn attention to the northern ice sheet. We will have to wait to see if 2019 continues to break ice-melt records, but in the rapidly warming Arctic the long-term trends of ice loss […]

Climate Change

Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

AFP

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

Climate Change

Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

A United Nations study in 2018 found that 95 percent of Chile’s 24,100 glaciers had receded

Climate Crisis

2/3s of Himalayan Glaciers to Melt by 2100, Threatening Water for 2 Billion People

AFP

The Himalayan glaciers, which formed some 70 million years ago, are highly sensitive to changing temperatures.

Climate Change

Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier

Juan Cole

In an academic paper in the journal Science Advances nestles a short sentence that at first glance is hard to detach from the specialist prose and mathematical formulas that dot it. On profile T3-T4, we confirm the formation of a cavity 4 km [roughly 2 and a half miles] wide by 350 m [0.2 miles] […]

Ice Melt

Ominous: Annual Antarctica Ice Loss Increases 6-Fold over 1979 Rate

AFP

“As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-meter sea level rise from Antarctica.”