Scientist on the NOAA Temperature Data
Zeke Hausfather on NOAA temperatures, and cold bias in records.
Zeke Hausfather on NOAA temperatures, and cold bias in records.
The ongoing widespread melting of high-elevation glaciers and ice caps, particularly in low to middle latitudes, provides strong evidence that a large scale, pervasive and in some cases, rapid change in Earth's climate system is underway.
Jim White from the University of Colorado, on climate change, January 2018.
A human and a machine response
It is now nearly certain that as Earth’s atmosphere and oceans warm over the coming centuries, glaciers and ice sheets will continue to retreat and sea levels will continue to rise. The big question now is at what rate and by how much?
At first there was little systematic change. Then came the 2000s.
A 2014 study led by NASA researchers shows that half-a-dozen key glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are in irreversible decline.
The polar vortex phenomenon was described as early as 1853. In recent years studies linked changes in the cryosphere to the polar vortex.
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