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Melting Arctic sea ice means its only going to get wetter for northern Europe
2013-10-29 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The unprecedented run of wet summer weather in recent years could be due in part to the melting sea ice in the Arctic, which appears to be affecting the movement of high-altitude winds over Britain, a study has found. Scientists believe they have discovered a causal link between the loss of Arctic sea ice in summer months and variations in the jet stream that have brought a series of very wet summers to Britain and northern Europe. The six summers from 2007 to 2012 were all wetter than average...
Melting Arctic easing access to fossil fuels
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: More direct routes may be opening up in the Arctic, as melting ice has made previously unnavigable routes a growing possibility for large ships, including tankers carrying oil and gas, an expert said Wednesday at the Third Houston Shipping and Offshore Conference. "The ice is melting and a new ocean is opening up," said Johan Vold, managing director of the Energy Policy Foundation of Norway and a former executive at Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil. The conference was held at the Houstonian Hotel...
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Newly Discovered Caves Aid Researchers Study Melting Glacier
2013-10-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Two explorers have discovered more than a mile of caves underneath a glacier on Mt. Hood near Portland, Oregon. They suspect the beautiful formations account for a significant loss of the glacier's ice, and they have set out to measure how much the inside of the glacier is melting each year. It's dangerous work, but it could reveal that some glaciers in the Pacific Northwest are retreating faster than anyone realized.
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Melting Arctic ice will mean more pirate chases, say COP19 organisers
2013-10-10 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Melting ice could open the Arctic to new drilling and the opportunity to "chase pirates, terrorists and ecologists", according to the organisers of this year's UN climate talks in Poland, in comments that have been branded outrageous by campaigners. The blogpost, published this week on the Polish site for November's Warsaw meeting, said that not only would melting ice allow ships to cut their journey times by taking the north-west passage, but "we may also build new drilling platforms and retrieve...
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Melting Arctic Permafrost Looms as Major Factor in Warming, Climate Change
2013-09-28 00:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wunderground: A heavyweight boxer in the climate change match is missing from the fifth climate assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday. Permafrost, which is frozen ground that doesn't melt during the summer, covers 24 percent of the land in the northern hemisphere. It also stores approximately 1.5 trillion tons of carbon twice the amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere. When the organic matter that makes up permafrost thaws, the carbon it contains...
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