Blogs about: West Antarctica

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BAS monitors dangerously-crevassed glacier with high-tech javelins

Glos Geog wrote 6 days ago: The British Antarctic Survey has developed air-dropped projectiles to monitor the fast-moving, dange … more →

Tags: geography at work, Climate & Weather, Extreme Geography, Cryosphere, Geotechnology, Pig, Pine Island Glacier

A season at Byrd4 comments

antarcticarctic wrote 2 months ago: The Antarctic summer is winding down and the stations are all preparing for winter. The 5 deep field … more →

Tags: Byrd, Pig, Traverse, Twin Otter, lc-130, field camp, Marie Byrd Land

Climate: Study suggests recent West Antarctic glacier changes are nearly unprecedented 3 comments

Bob Berwyn wrote 4 months ago: Data to help refine sea level rise forecasts West Antarctica‘s Pine Island Glacier. Photo cour … more →

Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Climate and Weather, Antarctica, sea-level rise, Global Climate, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, British Antarctic Survey, Pine Island Glacier

Baby, it's cold outside ...

laramusicblog wrote 4 months ago: While browsing stations on the comprehensive tunein.com radio directory, I couldn’t miss out t … more →

Tags: Article, Arts, Antarctica, Temperature, david bromwich, radio, nature geoscience, Antarctic, Snow Hill Island

Ring Around Antarctica

gymnosperm wrote 4 months ago: There are lots of rings around Antarctica. Sailors know the circum-Antarctic winds as the fearsome f … more →

Tags: Geography, paleogeography, true polar wander, Plate Tectonics, Southern Ocean, South Pole, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Antarctic

West Antarctica Warming Twice As Fast As Previously Believed: Study1 comment

ecocltr wrote 4 months ago: West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw … more →

Tags: environment, Environment, Global Warming, water, Climate, ice sheet, Sea Level, Temperature, surface melt

What Science Can Tell Us About 2013.

greatriversofhope wrote 4 months ago: paul.hadsall via Flickr Discovered: Science hazards its best guesses about what we’ll experien … more →

Tags: Science News, New York Times, Earth, Global Warming, Eastern Europe, National Weather Service, New Scientist, fahrenheit, University of Arizona

The World in 2013

DZONE wrote 4 months ago: Science hazards its best guesses about what we’ll experience in the new year, showing us previ … more →

Tags: General, 2013, 2013 predictions, 2013-world, Current sea level rise, Eastern Europe, El Niño Southern Oscillation, fahrenheit, Global Warming

Reported Antarctic "warming rate" deception

Ken McMurtrie wrote 4 months ago: Reblogged from Watts Up With That?: Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Mi … more →

Tags: climate change, Environment, Nature, Carbon Tax, AGW, Science, carbon dioxide, climate change, Carbon Tax

Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it104 comments

David Middleton wrote 4 months ago: Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking head … more →

Tags: Antarctic, alarmism, Climate Craziness of the Week, NASA Giss, Global Warming, Climate FAIL, global cooling, Antarctica, nature geoscience

West Antarctica Warming Twice As Fast As Previously Believed

Raed Hmadi wrote 5 months ago: OSLO, Dec 23 (Reuters) – West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believe … more →

Tags: Science, News, climate change, Antarctica Warming, West Antarctica Warming, Antarctica Climate Change, Antarctica Global Warming, Antarctica Ice Melting, antarctica melting

Climate: New clues for West Antarctic ice sheet melting

Bob Berwyn wrote 5 months ago: New data shows warm ocean currents melting the ice from below Antarctic sea ice has expanded slightl … more →

Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Climate and Weather, Antarctica, Climate, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, University of Gothenburg, Amundsen Sea

UNDER ANTARCTICA

maboulette wrote 8 months ago: Antarctica at its finest (Photo credit: HamishM) After 16 years of meticulous planning, a team of Br … more →

Tags: Antarctica, Lake Ellsworth, ice sheet, Bristol University, Drilling, British Antarctic Survey, Bird species new to science

WE ARE GOING SWIMMING !!!!3 comments

zaym0017 wrote 8 months ago: I think that these facts that Al Gore is showing in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, are true to wh … more →

Tags: Science, Climate, Cause of Global Warming, Main Cause Of Global Warming, safe cars

Hidden rift valley discovered beneath West Antarctica reveals new insight into accelerating ice loss

Henricus Peters wrote 9 months ago: Scientists have discovered a one mile deep rift valley hidden beneath the ice in West Antarctica, wh … more →

Tags: Environment, Research, climate change, Antarctica, British Antarctic Survey, Aberdeen University, Ferrigno Ice Stream, Antarctic, ice stream

"Grand Canyon of Antarctica" Discovered

worldbookblog wrote 9 months ago: A huge canyon nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon has been discovered beneath a remote area of the We … more →

Tags: today, Global Warming, Antarctica, climate change, Ferrigno Ice Stream, Ferrigno Rift, Glacier, Glaciers, Grand Canyon

Hidden Rift Valley Beneath West Antarctica

Rolland Arriza wrote 10 months ago: The ice-margin of Ferrigno Ice Stream where it flows into Eltanin Bay. (Credit: Photo Rob Bingham) S … more →

Tags: Nature and Environment, Aberdeen University, Antarctic, antarctic ice sheet, Antarctica, British Antarctic Survey, Climate, climate change, Environment

New ice loss unit - the New Jersey 54 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: From the University of Texas at Austin, an ice shelf as big as New Jersey might collapse, if conditi … more →

Tags: Antarctic, Antarctica, New Jersey, Pine Island Glacier, Weddell Sea, British Antarctic Survey, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, filchner-ronne ice shelf

NASA: Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica82 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Breaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really make … more →

Tags: Antarctic, NASA, Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, antarctic ice sheet, ICESat, British Antarctic Survey


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