By Bob Henson 18 January 2011 Some fascinating weather has unfolded across the Northern Hemisphere over the last month, but you may have only heard about part of it. The media dutifully reported on the heavy snow that battered the mid-Atlantic and New England states in late December. It was also the United Kingdom’s coldest […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2011) — Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic for the Greenland ice sheet as previously feared and may actually slow down the flow of glaciers, according to new research. A letter published in Nature on 27 January 2011 explains how increased melting in warmer years causes the internal drainage system of […]
By JUSTIN GILLISPublished: January 24, 2011 Judging by the weather, the world seems to have flipped upside down. For two winters running, an Arctic chill has descended on Europe, burying that continent in snow and ice. Last year in the United States, historic blizzards afflicted the mid-Atlantic region. This winter the Deep South has endured […]
By Rob HastingsWednesday, 26 January 2011 In a remarkable feat of endurance, a polar bear has been tracked swimming for nine days continuously in a desperate bid to reach new ice floes, covering 426 miles in the process. The bears are excellent swimmers and are known to travel long distances in search of seals. But […]
The figure shows the standardized melting index anomaly for the period 1979 – 2010. In simple words, each bar tells us by how many standard deviations melting in a particular year was above the average. For example, a value of ~2 for 2010 means that melting was above the average by two times the ‘variability’ […]
Contact: Dr. Marco Tedesco, Cryosphere Processes Laboratory, The City College of New York, mtedesco(at)sci(dot)ccny(dot)cuny(dot)eduMartin Sommerkorn, WWF Global Arctic Programme, msommerkorn(at)wwf(dot)noJanuary 20, 2011 New York (Vocus/PRWEB) – New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, expected to be a major contributor to projected sea level rises in coming […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent; editing by David StampOSLO | Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:45pm GMT (Reuters) – Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed. Satellite data indicated that Arctic sea […]
Media Contact: John Leslie, 301-713-2087, ext. 17January 12, 2011 According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average. For the contiguous United States alone, the 2010 average annual temperature […]
By Leah Schnurr; editing by Peter GallowayTue Jan 11, 2011 2:17 pm ET OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada had its warmest year on record in 2010, according to the country’s environmental agency, with the biggest impact seen in the Arctic region. The national average temperature for the year was 3 degrees Celsius above normal, based on […]
Google translation: Berlingske TidendeFriday 7 January 2011, 03:53 Even if we turned off all power stations and threw the keys to our car away, we would probably be unable to put a stop to it. No matter how much we turn down the CO2-burner, Greenland will still reach a significant turning point by around 2040, […]
