Investors embrace climate change, chase hotter profits – ‘The climate is changing. Sea level is rising. That’s quite obvious. Cities close to the waterline continue to grow and need more protection. It’s almost a natural growth market.’

By Matthew Campbell and Chris V. Nicholson 7 March 2013 (Bloomberg) – Investing in climate change used to mean financing the fight against global warming. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and other firms took stakes in wind farms and tidal-energy projects, and set up carbon-trading desks. Then, as efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions faltered, […]

Canada glaciers face ‘big losses’ – ‘The processes that are currently ongoing will continue and be re-enforced, so the mass loss will increase in time’

By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent7 March 2013 (BBC News) – The glaciers of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago will undergo a dramatic retreat this century if warming projections hold true. A new study suggests the region’s ice fields could lose perhaps as much as a fifth of their volume. Such a melt would add 3.5cm to […]

Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge: ‘Climate change is a national security threat’

By  Robert J. Vickers | rvickers@pennlive.com   25 February 2013 WASHINGTON (Penn Live) – Former Gov. Tom Ridge joined 37 prominent political figures at that U.S. Capitol Monday calling for policymakers to figure climate change into national security strategy and budget considerations. “The U.S. national security community, including leaders from the military, homeland security, and intelligence, […]

Climate change melting glaciers in the Andes – ‘They will probably completely disappear within the coming decades’

By Jeremy Hance22 January 2013 (mongabay.com) – Glaciers are melting faster than ever in the tropical Andes, warns a new study published in The Cryosphere, which puts the blame for vanishing glaciers squarely on climate change. The study — the most comprehensive to date — found that since the 1970s glacier melt in the region […]

‘Horrible’ sea level rise of more than 3 feet plausible by 2100, experts say

By John Roach, NBC News 6 January 2013 Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland may push up global sea levels more than 3 feet by the end of this century, according to a scientific poll of experts that brings a degree of clarity to a murky and controversial slice of climate science. Such a rise […]

Polar ice sheets shrinking worldwide, study confirms

By Christine Dell’Amore29 November 2012 (National Geographic News) – The polar ice sheets are indeed shrinking—and fast, according to a comprehensive new study on climate change. And the effects, according to an international team, are equally clear—sea levels are rising faster than predicted, which could bring about disastrous effects for people and wildlife. Rising seas […]

World’s glaciers have new size estimate

By Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer23 October 2012 (LiveScience.com) – The relatively small glaciers that drape the planet’s mountains will play an important role in future sea level rise, according to a new study that estimated glaciers’ collective size. Researchers calculated the ice thickness for 171,000 glaciers worldwide, excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which […]

Australia’s Antarctic airstrip melts

By Jonathan Pearlman24 October 2012 Sydney (The Telegraph) – Researchers said global warming has caused the glacial ice on the runway to turn to mush just four years after it was built for about £30 million. It was due to receive about 20 flights each summer but only six have been able to land in […]

Localised sunshade could stop Arctic melting

By Michael Marshall21 October 2012 If we have to hack the planet, we could at least do it with some finesse. Some of the problems with geoengineering could be fixed by targeting specific regions of the planet, rather than cooling everywhere equally. A rough modelling study published in Nature Climate Change offers a crude blueprint […]

Antarctica losing 190 million tons of ice daily, causing sea levels to rise 1 mm per year

By Ben Cubby, Environment Editor23 October 2012 ANTARCTICA is shedding an average of 190 million tonnes of ice daily – and causing sea levels to rise about a millimetre a year. Although parts of East Antarctica are growing, glaciers in West Antarctica are melting faster, leading to a net loss of ice across the continent, […]

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