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Black Carbon Driving Himalayan Melt San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Surabi Menon set out to isolate the impacts of the most commonly blamed culprit-greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide-from other particles in the air that may be causing the meltin ... read moreArctic Melt Season Growing Longer 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2010New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years, or 6.4 days per decade. The finding stems from scientists' work to compile the first comprehensive record of melt onset and freeze-up dates - the "melt season" - for the entire Arctic. The melt season begins each April when the sunless winter gives way to s ... more
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Is Antarctica Melting
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2010Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2010 There has been lots of talk lately about Antarctica and whether or not the continent's giant ice sheet is melting. One new paper1, which states there has been less surface melting recently than in past years, has been cited as "proof" that there's no global warming. Other evidence that the amount of sea ice around Antarctica seems to be increasing slightly2-4 is b ... more German army evacuates tourists from ice-locked island 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 3, 2010The German army evacuated by helicopter some hundred tourists Wednesday stranded on an ice-locked German island in the Batic sea, a tourist official told AFP. Ferries had been unable to reach Hiddensee island since Friday, after ice-breakers failed twice to crack ice that was 40 centimetres (15.7 inches) thick in some areas. The 112 tourists and six dogs were flown to the neighbouring is ... more Himalaya glacier error 'cost us dear': UN climate panel chief 
London (AFP) Feb 3, 2010The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel admitted Wednesday that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report had damaged the body's credibility, in an interview with a British newspaper. But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), refused to apologise in the interview with the Guardian for the erroneous claim that global warming could melt Himal ... more German lost at night on sea ice saved by webcam 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 3, 2010A German man who lost his way in the dark while wandering around on sea ice off the coast was saved by a woman 500 kilometres (300 miles) away who spotted him on a webcam, police said Wednesday. The man, in his forties, who has not been named, had ventured out on the frozen sea at St. Peter-Ording on the northern tip of Germany to take pictures of the sunset but became disorientated when dar ... more |
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Indian minister slams UN body on glacier research
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 19, 2010India's environment minister slammed the UN's top climate body in comments published Tuesday, claiming its doomsday warning about Himalayan glaciers was not based on "scientific evidence." The controversy focuses on a reference in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) landmark 2007 report that said the chances of Himalayan glaciers "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high." "The IPCC claim that glaciers will vanish by 2035 was not based on an iota of scientific evidence," minister Jairam Ramesh told the Hindustan Times. ... more IPCC chief defends panel in Himalaya glacier fiasco 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 19, 2010The chairman of the UN's panel of climate scientists defended his Nobel-winning group on Tuesday against criticism that it had erroneously forecast an early disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers. A section of a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the probability of glaciers in the Himalayas "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high. ... more Finnish winters less icy by century's end: study 
Helsinki (AFP) Jan 19, 2010Freezing weather could be a thing of the past in parts of Finland by the end of the century as climate change leads to rising temperatures, Finland's Meteorological Institute said Tuesday. "Due to climate change, cold winters will become increasingly rare," the agency said in a statement, referring to data from a project it is conducting with the University of Helsinki. By the end of the ... more In new row, UN climate body to probe Himalayan glacier forecast
Paris (AFP) Jan 18, 2010The UN's panel of climate scientists said on Monday it would probe claims its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers was wrong as an expert said he had warned of the mistake. The Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is already under attack over hacked email exchanges which skeptics say reflected attempts to skew the evidence for global warming. The new controversy focusses on a reference in the IPCC's landmark Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 that said the probability of glaciers in the Himalayas "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high." ... more |
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