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Most assessments of ice sheet contribution to sea level rise indicate an acceleration over the past decade, whereas altimeter-measured SLR has not been faster over the most recent decade (2003-2012) compared to the previous one (1993-2002). This suggests that the relative constancy of...
Why the difference between the Peninsula and the WAIS? After all, both locations are warming at about the same rate . We could speculate that if there were melt layers in the WAIS cores, they would also show a significant increase like the James Ross Island core does. (It’s too cold a...
Attention: OT (On topic, as in climate science, feel free to ignore) 1) DOI: 10.1002/grl.50456 McGrath et al. All of Greenland gets wet by 2025 “Extrapolation of this observed trend now suggests, with 95 % confidence, that the dry snow facies of the Greenland Ice Sheet will inevitably...
The link between extreme weather events, climate change, and national security is discussed in Extreme Realities , a new episode in PBS’ series Journey To Planet Earth hosted by Matt Damon. The video features a number of extreme weather phenomena: hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wild f...
A: Maybe. We cannot exclude the possibility that some of the paleotemperature records are biased toward a particular season rather than recording true annual mean temperatures. For instance, high-latitude proxies based on short-lived plants or other organisms may record the temperatur...
A: Maybe. We cannot exclude the possibility that some of the paleotemperature records are biased toward a particular season rather than recording true annual mean temperatures. For instance, high-latitude proxies based on short-lived plants or other organisms may record the temperatur...
To conclude, climate models can and have been verified against observations in a property that is most important for many users: the regional trends. This verification shows that many large-scale features of climate change are being simulated correctly, but smaller-scale observed tren...
The segment on the developing world fails because it never addresses the question of what pattern of development could sustainably provide a decent standard of living for the worlds’ poor. Instead, in essence, it asks the question of what it would take to remake the world in Scott Tin...
