Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013. Related Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from…
By Daniel L. Kuester, U.S. Naval War College Public Affairs Feb. 4, 2015 NEWPORT, R.I. – Author, researcher and marine biologist Jeremy Jackson gave a presentation titled “Sea Level Rise is Dangerous” at U.S. Naval War College (NWC), Feb. 3, addressing environmental changes and the implications of those events on people. “The threats to the…
If you thought oil companies might start to transition to a world without carbon, invest into renewable energies to get ahold of it. Then the message is often pretty clear, they do exactly the opposite, and do not care. Earthquake research For instance oil billionaire Harold Hamm was bold and demanded from the University of…
Despite the overwhelming evidence, the majority of us have become increasingly adept at ignoring or side-lining climate change. Most of us recognise the danger is real and yet we do nothing to stop it. As the Guardian sets out on its own climate change journey, George Marshall, one of the most eminent thinkers in the…
The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 26.5 million cubic km of ice. That is, approximately 61…
Sea ice melt season 2015 Last year a study reported that the Arctic sea ice melt season is getting longer. The situation for the state of the Arctic sea ice this year is already critical, since April 2015 set the 2nd lowest sea ice extent record (NSIDC). A decline of 2.4% per decade relative to…
NASA has found that the last section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is likely to disintegrate before the end of the decade. Transcript: We know that this ice shelf existed for at least 11 to 12 thousand years. In 2002, two-thirds of it collapsed in less than six weeks. In the intervening period between…
Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n4/full/ngeo2388.html Totten Glacier, the primary outlet of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, has the largest thinning rate in East Antarctica1, 2. Thinning may be driven by enhanced basal melting due to ocean processes3, modulated by polynya activity4, 5. Warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water, which has…
Related Sea level rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise Sea rise threatens Florida coast, but no statewide plan http://news.yahoo.com/sea-rise-threatens-florida-coast-no-statewide-plan-151756531.html Florida’s Political Disconnect on Sea Level Rise http://climatecrocks.com/2015/05/11/floridas-political-disconnect-on-sea-level-rise/