North Greenland reports record summer snowmelt

"U.S. atmospheric scientists say satellite data indicates northern Greenland experienced a record number of melting days this summer. City College of New York Assistant Professor Marco Tedesco said the northern...

California revives program to buy water from farmers

California is reviving the dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from the Sacramento Valley farmers to then sell to the Southern California agencies. This is all due to the water reserves being all but gone,...

Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global ...

This is a great interview with John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lawyer Stephen Susman who is representing Kivalina islanders, Native Alaskan people who have to be moved, because of global warming, to the...

Climate Model Predicts Greater Melting, Submerged Cities

Submerged cities. Assuming the sea rises far enough, it must happen. Only a floating city could avoid being submerged.

Arctic sea ice fails to re-form for the second consecutive winter

Global warming may have tipped the polar regions into irreversible climate change sooner than predicted.

Polar ice sheets show net loss

In the last five years, the amount of glacier ice dumped into the Atlantic Ocean has doubled.

current period of global warming is longest in 1,200 years

There is enough information now to draw reasonably robust conclusions.

Mount Everest glacier has retreated three miles in 50 years

A similar trend has been documented in glaciers throughout the Himalayas.

Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet

2005 was the hottest year on record since 1880.

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