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Humans now strongest driver of glaciers melting, study finds
2014-08-15 03:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Melting of glaciers caused by human activity has soared in the past 20 years, a study has shown. Human influence is now the strongest driver of glacier melting, which has been occurring since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid-19th century, it is claimed. Between 1851 and 2010, only a quarter of glacial mass loss was due to human-induced climate change, scientists calculated. But during the last two decades of that period the human contribution rose to two thirds. Lead researcher...
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Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers
2014-08-14 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world's glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds. Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn't see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century. Even then only one-quarter of the warming wasn't from natural causes. But since 1991, about 69 percent of the rapidly increasing melt was man-made, said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "Glaciers are really shrinking...
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Melting glaciers are caused by man-made global warming, study shows
2014-08-14 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The dramatic melting of the worlds mountain glaciers from the Alps to the Himalayas is mostly the result of man-made global warming rather than natural variability in the climate, a study has found. Scientists have laid to rest the idea that glaciers as far apart as Patagonia and Indonesia are melting primarily because of natural changes to the climate caused by such things as solar variability and volcanic eruptions. An assessment of about 200,000 glaciers in the world, some of which...
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Man-made warming becomes main cause of glacier retreat, study says
2014-08-14 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Man-made greenhouse gas emissions have become the dominant cause of melting in glaciers from the Alps to the Andes that is raising world sea levels, a study said on Thursday. Human emissions accounted for an estimated 69 percent of loss of ice from glaciers from 1991-2010, overtaking natural climate variations that had been the main driver of a retreat since the mid-19th century, researchers wrote in the journal Science. Until now, scientists have struggled to quantify the impact of human behavior...
Carpet Diversion Grows, Recycling Slips in 2013 Study
2014-08-14 15:33:00| Waste Age
Carpet diverted from landfills increased to 14 percent in 2013 from 10 percent in 2012, but carpet actually recycled fell to 5 percent from 8 percent, according to an annual study by a leading carpet recycling and diversion organization. read more
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