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Out There On The Ice: An Intimate View Of The Melting Antarctic Sheet
2014-05-14 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Two groups of scientists have reported that the melting of the giant West Antarctica Ice Sheet appears to be unstoppable. Oceans could rise several feet in the coming centuries because of its melting. Glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan has , studying them for nearly three decades, and he comments on the recent news.
Siggraph 2014: Where the worlds top computer graphics experts share their latest research on realistic melting bunnies
2014-05-14 20:27:45| Extremetech
Siggraph 2014, probably the world's most prestigious computer graphics (CG) convention, is almost upon us -- and once again, it's time to feast our eyes on the various next-gen CG technologies and techniques that are coming down the pipe. As always, Disney Research will be one of the most active participants, presenting a bunch of papers detailing myriad innovative ways of tearing, animating, and melting cute animals, but Microsoft Research and most of the world's top universities will also be present to demonstrate their latest CG findings.
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Ice melting in the western Antarctic at an 'unstoppable' pace, warn NASA scientists
2014-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an "unstoppable" pace, scientists said Monday, warning that the discovery holds major consequences for global sea level rise in the coming decades. The speedy melting means that prior calculations of sea level rise worldwide made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will have to be adjusted upwards, scientists told reporters. "A large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat. It has passed the...
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Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Might Be Unstoppable
2014-05-12 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Scientists have long worried about climate-change induced melting of the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now they say that not only is the disintegration of the ice already underway, but that it's likely unstoppable. That means that in the coming centuries, global sea levels will rise by anywhere from 4 to 12 feet. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, that's a larger increase than the United Nations expert panel noted last year, but it would occur over a longer time frame - centuries instead...
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Antarctic Ice 'Cork' Melting Could Lead to Unstoppable Sea Rise
2014-05-10 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: If a relatively small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean that would significantly increase global sea level for the next 10,000 years, according to a new report. The ice plug sits on a ridge beneath the East Antarctic Ice Shelf in a region called the Wilkes Basin that has previously been overlooked in sea level projections, because it has appeared to be stable compared to regions of the West...
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