Ice Melt

Antarctica has lost a staggering three trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, according to a landmark study published Wednesday

Climate Change

Massive Melting in Arctic is a Danger Signal of Manmade Climate Change

Mark Serreze

Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and the surface absorbs more of the sun’s energy instead of reflecting […]

Climate Change

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

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By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]

Denialism

Under Trump, Arctic Refuge to be Ravaged by Oil Drills

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By Subhankar Banerjee | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – What happens in the Arctic doesn’t just stay up north. It affects the world, as that region is the integrator of our planet’s climate systems, atmospheric and oceanic. At the moment, the northernmost places on Earth are warming at more than twice the global average, a […]

Climate Change

Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves for 1st time in 7,000 years

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Sev Kender | (The Conversation) | – – The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer […]

Denialism

Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It

Juan Cole

By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | – – The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are on fire. Several blazes are out of control, threatening rural towns, jumping rivers and highways, and covering Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and other cities […]

Climate Change

Antarctica Ice Melt will trigger Abrupt Global Heating

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Collapsing Ice Sheets may be a Tipping Point

Climate Change

Top 5 ways Man-made Climate Change made Hurricane Harvey much Worse

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at IC wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality. Extreme weather events are associated with climate change, and whenever they occur, they raise the question of their relationship to that process. […]

Climate Change

Largest Wildfire on Record is raging in Greenland, as Ice Melt Speeds Up

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By Kathryn Adamson | (The Conversation) | – – The largest wildfire ever recorded in Greenland was recently spotted close to the west coast town of Sisimiut, not far from Disko Island where I research retreating glaciers. The fire has captured public and scientific interest not just because its size and location came as a […]