Blogs about: West Antarctica
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Is Antarctic sea ice increasing or decreasing? And why?
Original Source: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Questions about Arctic sea ice Sea Ice Ebbs and Flows – NASA Earth Observatory, April 21, 2009 Why don’t I hear much about … more →
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New ice loss unit - the New Jersey
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wrote 3 weeks ago: From the University of Texas at Austin, an ice shelf as big as New Jersey might collapse, if conditi … more →
NASA: Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
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wrote 1 month ago: Breaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really make … more →
More crack in the Antarctic
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wrote 1 month ago: From the European Space Agency (ESA): Satellite observes rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic … more →
Crack in the Antarctic!
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wrote 2 months ago: From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic … more →
New paper: A high-resolution surface mass balance map of Antarctica shows "no significant trend in the 1979–2010 ice sheet"
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wrote 3 months ago: Uh, oh. Another talking point bites the dust. Figure 3. Time series of SMB components, integrated ov … more →
Subglacial lake could provide climate change information
wrote 4 months ago: The Lake Ellsworth, located in West Antarctica, is one of hundreds subglacial lakes discovered on th … more →
Why Glaciers Are Needed
wrote 5 months ago: Glaciers have been on Earth ever since the Earth cooled down enough to sustain them. Glaciers curren … more →
Geologists drilling into ancient Antarctic lake: real or a movie?
wrote 7 months ago: cwnl: Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake A team of British researchers are prep … more →
Geoengineering -- Part 2: Climate Science and Climate Change
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wrote 9 months ago: In a blog devoted to 21st century technology why are we discussing climate change? Because if climat … more →
Ocean 'feedback' speeds Antarctic glacier melt
wrote 11 months ago: Rate of melt at Pine Island Glacier has increased 50 percent in 15 years New research helps explain … more →
Warming in equatorial Pacific linked to Antarctic thaw
wrote 1 year ago: Ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting away. Rossby waves pushing warm westerlies toward the A … more →
West Antarctic warming triggered by warmer sea surface in tropical Pacific
wrote 1 year ago: The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies hav … more →
Coffin, meet nail. - more on Steig's reconstruction issues
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wrote 1 year ago: by Ryan O’Donnell via Climate Audit For those who are not mathematically inclined and did not … more →
RC's duplicity prods Jeff Id out of retirement
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wrote 1 year ago: Jeff asked me to carry this, since his blog is off the radar since he announced his retirement. It t … more →
Icecap Loss Estimate Cut by Half
wrote 1 year ago: Scientists found that icecap size varies according to corrections for deformations of the Earth … more →
Is Antarctic sea ice increasing or decreasing? And why?
wrote 1 year ago: Original Source: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Questions about Arctic sea ic … more →
Repost from Wired.com: Sea Creatures Hint at Recent Trans-Antarctic Seaway
wrote 1 year ago: The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now solid Antarctic ice sheet — … more →
Ice of the Past
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wrote 2 years ago: Sea Ice Breaks up Rapidly along the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf January 12, 2010 PM January 13, AM Janu … more →
Pine Island Glacier Past A Tipping Point?
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wrote 2 years ago: A major glacier located in West Antarctica could, according to recent research, be near or past a ti … more →
