A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is not surprising, but it is important: Global levels of carbon dioxide and methane both increased sharply in 2007.
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Carbon dioxide, methane on the rise
Published April 29th, 2008 in Science, Arctic, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 0 CommentsGlacial melt accelerates
Published March 20th, 2008 in Glaciers, Science, Arctic, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 1 CommentA new report finds that glaciers around the globe melted and thinned twice as fast in 2006 as they did in 2004. Ice at the North Pole isn’t faring much better: This winter, the thin seasonal ice spread farther than usual, but the thicker perennial ice thinned out and retreated.
Arctic sea ice melts to record low
Published October 8th, 2007 in Arctic, Science, Oceans, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 6 CommentsThe National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced October 1 that the summer melting of the sea ice at the North Pole hit a new record this year, shrinking to its lowest extent since satellite records started being kept in 1979. The big melt left 23 percent less ice than in 2005, the previous […]
Arctic sea ice shrinks to new lows
Published August 26th, 2007 in Science, Arctic, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 6 CommentsBack on August 17 the Associated Press reported that “there was less sea ice in the Arctic … than ever before on record,” according to satellite measurements by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). There were 2.02 million square miles of Arctic ice on August 17; as of August 22 it was down […]