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Santa's workshop not flooded but lots of melting in the Arctic
2013-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Space Daily: Santa's workshop at the North Pole is not under water, despite recent reports. A dramatic image captured by a University of Washington monitoring buoy reportedly shows a lake at the North Pole. But Santa doesn't yet need to buy a snorkel. "Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds," said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory....
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Study Warning of Massive Release of Methane From Melting Ice Not Without Critics
2013-07-29 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Controversy has erupted over a recent study examining the greenhouse gases emitted through the melting of Arctic ice. Published in the journal Nature, the report warned that the estimated 50 gigatons of methane trapped inside the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is likely to be released within the next several decades as it thaws, causing an estimated $60 trillion in costs to countries everywhere due to resulting extreme weather. The authors of the study, which included Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams...
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Canada: Orchestra travels to Kootenays to play requiem for melting B.C. glacier
2013-07-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Fifty musicians trekked to Farnham Glacier in the Kootenays Saturday to perform for the glacier itself and express their grief about the melting of glaciers with the aptly titled composition Requiem for a Glacier. I felt it, as I was playing, said violinist Gerda Crosthwaite, 74, of Kaslo. It is farewell to a glacier, feeling sadness it will happen. We cannot stop it any more. Its an opportunity to help save the glaciers, said 15-year-old violinist Joy Motzkus. Its for the animals...
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Antarcticas permafrost is melting
2013-07-25 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Things are getting ugly on Earth`s underside. Antarctic permafrost, which had been weathering global warming far better than areas around the North Pole, is starting to give way. Scientists have recorded some of it melting at rates that are nearly comparable to those in the Arctic. Scientists used time-lapse photography and LiDAR to track the retreat of an Antarctic ice cliff over a little more than a decade. They reported Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports that the cliff was "backwasting...
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Methane Released by Arctic Melting Could Cost the World $60 Trillion in Climate Extremes
2013-07-25 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The costs resulting from methane released by melting Arctic ice could equal $60 trillion, or roughly a year of global economic output, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Trapped within the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is an estimated 50 gigatons of the known greenhouse gas that is expected, according to the scientists, to be released either suddenly or gradually over the next half century based on how quickly the ice melts. Either way, the researchers, who hail from...
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