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NASA-led study suggests coal soot shrank Alpine glaciers in mid-1800s
2013-09-04 13:30:27| Green Car Congress
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Pollution, Not Rising Temperatures, May Have Melted Alpine Glaciers
2013-09-03 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Glaciers in the Alps of Europe pose a scientific mystery. They started melting rapidly back in the 1860s. In a span of about 50 years, some of the biggest glaciers had retreated more than half a mile. But nobody could explain the glacier's rapid decline. Now, a new study from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovers a possible clue to why the glaciers melted before temperatures started rising: Soot from the Industrial Revolution could have heated up the ice. Scientists trying to understand...
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Layers of soot from coal burning melted Alpine glaciers even in cooler climate
2013-09-02 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Sooty air from coal burning triggered the initial melting of the mountain glaciers in the European Alps in the second half of the 19th Century when it caused the snow to turn grey and so reflect less sunlight back into space, scientists said. The soot, known as black carbon, caused the glaciers to absorb more heat than usual, causing the ice to recede year by year even though the regional temperatures were colder than today, the researchers found. Alpine glaciers have receded significantly over...
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Climate Change Could Spell Final 'Chuckle' For Alpine Frog
2013-08-07 22:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Across the Western U.S., yearly areas of snowpack are decreasing, and researchers are trying to figure out what that means for everything that relies on the snowmelt from farms to power plants to a little creature known as the Cascades frog. The frog lives way up in the mountains of the Northwest and thrives in alpine wetlands fed by melting snow. Scientists are now trying to figure out how these frogs will adapt to their shrinking habitat. In Washington's Olympic Mountains things are looking...
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Alpine lakes reflect climate change
2013-06-06 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperatures are also on the rise. A new study, by Dr. Martin Dokulil, retired researcher from the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, forecasts surface water temperatures in large Austrian lakes for 2050 and discusses the impact on the lakes' structure, function and water quality. The research is published online in Springer's journal Hydrobiologia. Austria has a multitude...
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