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Abrupt Atlantic Ocean Changes May Have Been Natural

2016-05-23 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Climate change may not have been to blame for an abrupt recent slowdown of a sweeping Atlantic Ocean current, a change that delivered an intense pulse of ocean warming and sea level rise through the Gulf of Maine and elsewhere along the East Coast. Modeling-based analysis by British scientists, published Monday in Nature Geoscience, concluded that the decline in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) from 2004 to 2014 was "part of decadal variability of the North Atlantic,' representing...

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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat

2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Ninety-nine percent of the planet's freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas. Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheets surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010s record for a thaw so early in the year....

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The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change

2016-02-16 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Truthout: A 100,000-acre spruce beetle kill drapes this alpine mountain park like a heavy wool blanket. Except for a green strip of young trees along the old logging roads that crisscross forested areas like these, 90 percent or more of the rest of the forest has been killed. Groundhog Park, La Garita Range, Rio Grande National Forest, south central Colorado, elevation 11,000 feet. Background: Mesa Mountain, elevation 12,994 feet. (Photo: Bruce Melton) We were awash for 19 days in a tumultuous sea of mountains...

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Victoria's Secret CEO Turney in "abrupt" departure

2016-02-15 10:24:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

The "seemingly abrupt" departure of Sharen Jester Turney, the CEO of Victoria's Secret, is unlikely to be a reflection on the fundamentals of the business, one analyst has said, after she announced her decision to retire late last week.

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