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NASA satellite launched to monitor global warming
2016-01-17 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: US and French scientists have launched a new satellite capable of measuring the height of the worlds oceans to within 4cm. The $180 million mission, named Jason-3, is expected to provide them with vital data to track long-term changes to climate and the oceans role in global warming. Jason-3 was launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday. Inside Story: Are US space missions running out of steam? The satellite will map the hills...
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Giant Icebergs Have Surprise Role in Slowing Warming
2016-01-16 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The biggest icebergs breaking off Antarctica unexpectedly help to slow global warming as they melt away into the Southern Ocean, scientists said on Monday. The rare Manhattan-sized icebergs, which may become more frequent in coming decades because of climate change, release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilizers for algae and other tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean. These extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, a natural ally for human efforts to...
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Northeast U.S. Waters Warming Far Faster than Previously Thought, NOAA says
2016-01-15 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The ocean waters off the Northeastern United States may get even warmer, and this warming may occur twice as quickly as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The findings, based on four global climate models, suggest that ocean temperatures in that region will rise three times faster than the global average. Prior climate change projections for the region may be far too conservative, said Vincent Saba, a NOAA fisheries...
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Global warming likely to delay next ice age
2016-01-14 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on January 13. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back to warmer conditions like the present. In the last ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, ice sheets blanketed what is now Canada, northern Europe and Siberia. In a new explanation for the long-lasting plunges in global temperatures...
Warming Could Mean Major Thaw For Alaska Permafrost
2016-01-14 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If youd asked permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky five years ago if he thought the permafrost of the North Slope of Alaska was in danger of substantial thaw this century because of global warming, he would have said no. The permanently frozen soils of the northern reaches of the state are much colder, and so more stable than the warmer, more vulnerable permafrost of interior Alaska, he would have said. I cannot say it anymore he told journalists last month at the annual meeting of the American...
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