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Melting Ohio Daily

November 18, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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So this droll item, apparently unveiled by Jay Leno, is making the rounds, which makes it a perfect opportunity for an exercise with large numbers.Let's start with what we can glean about Enco's production in 1962. We can then compare it with modern production of its more or less descendant corporation Exxon/Mobil.Presumably the... [read more]

Document alert: Ice sheet melting

September 24, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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A new study is showing bad news from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. NASA data: Greenland, Antarctic ice melt worsening: New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. British scientists... [read more]

A blue Arctic?

June 27, 2008 by Lou Grinzo
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The Independent has an article about global warming in today’s edition that raises some very disturbing questions. Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole: It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it... [read more]

Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World

March 25, 2008 by Joseph Romm
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That is the breaking news today from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the British Antarctic Survey: Satellite imagery from the [NSIDC] reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica.… In the past 50 years... [read more]

An ice-free Arctic by 2013?

December 12, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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Maybe Climate Progress isn’t alarmist after all. Maybe this future is nearer than everyone thinks: I was called “over-alarmist” by one of the people who took my bet that the Arctic would be ice free by 2020. But one of the country’s top ice experts, non-alarmist Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School, told an... [read more]

Arctic Ice shrinks by an Alaska plus a Texas

September 24, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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Hitting a record low on September 16, 2007, the Arctic lost half a million square miles of ice compared to its last record low just two years ago.For all the details, check out the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) website, which notes “the Northwest Passage is still open, but is starting to refreeze. We are still on track for... [read more]

Amazing AP article on sea level rise

September 22, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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The AP just released the following story:Global warming — through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding — is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it... [read more]

Capping Carbon: Is Nothing Better than Something?

September 21, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow beforepeople change their ways today?– Nancy Gibbs, TIMEIn Greenland today, the ice is thawing at a pace that is alarming climate scientists. Meantime in Washington D.C., Congress remains frozen on the issue of carbon pricing. And that may be a good thing.Carbon pricing, as most readers... [read more]