Scientists from Leeds and Edinburgh and University College London analyzed satellite studies of glaciers, mountains, and ice sheets between 1994 and 2017 to identify the effects of global warming. Their review paper was published in the magazine Cryosphere Discussions. Describing the ice loss as ‘staggering’, the group found that melting …
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An employee of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is monitoring tropical storm Laura in Santo Domingo, on August 22, 2020. Erika Santelices | AFP | Getty Images Marco intensified Sunday in a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico en route to the coast of Louisiana, according to data from an …
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The oceans of the world have been transformed into a true sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest that we have passed them on immediately. Since the 1950s, the vast water bodies of our planet have absorbed about 93 percent of the energy in the climate system, and …
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A major new study has been published – one that provides much more certainty about the extent of future warming we might expect. Along with many other international climate scientists, it was led by my colleague, climate scientist Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales in Australia. So, …
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It melts Greenland ice sheet is already one of the biggest contributors to sea level rise. But now scientists have confirmed that the region saw a record amount of ice melt last year – breaking previous records with 532 billion metric tons of ice. The amount of ice lost in …
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