Kategori: Greenland
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On thin ice – Greenland and climate change
My power-point presentation On thin ice – Greenland and climate change is now available on Youtube. Have a look below: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSlT5RM1Qk]
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Avsmältning hotar isbjörnarna
Det senaste decenniets varmare klimat har gjort att vinterisen i Arktis lägger sig två månader senare än normalt. Detta innebär på sikt ett hot mot isbjörnens överlevnad i vissa områden, eftersom isbjörnen är beroende av att vandra på isen för att hitta sin huvudföda, vikaresäl. Det rapporterar Ekot idag. – Packisen där ska var frusen…
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The Ice Melt Accelerates
The Earth Policy Institute have some interesting documentation on ice melt in the Arctic, Greenland and elsewere. In the article ”Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World” they write: The most dramatic loss of ice in recent years has been the decline of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Between 1953 and 2006, the area…
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Greenland suffers from extreme ice melt
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Edward Hanna at the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated that recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years, ENN reports. The article continues: The findings, published in Journal of Climate, show how the Greenland Ice Sheet responded to more regional, rather…
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Greenland thaw biggest in 50 years
Climate change has caused the greatest thaw of Greenland’s ice in half a century, perhaps heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in world sea levels, Reuters writes today. ”We attribute significantly increased Greenland summer warmth and ice melt since 1990 to global warming,” a group of researchers wrote in the Journal of…
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New findings on Artic melting
Researchers from the Department of Metreology at Stockholm university publish new findings on Artic melting in the latest issue of Nature. Erland Kjällen et al writes: ”Near-surface warming in the Arctic has been almost twice as large as the global average over recent decades, a phenomenon that is known as the ’Arctic amplification’.” ”Climate model…