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The big picture: 65 million years of temperature swings
Greenland Temperatures – last 10,000 years. Are we headed for an ice age? (See below for more detail.) David Lappi is a geologist from Alaska who has sent in a set of beautiful graphs–including an...
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News from the Non Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
A sample of recent scientific news from NIPCC * The Glaciers of Greenland were smaller 5000 years ago; * African savanna trees thrive with increases in CO2; * It was hotter in China a thousand years...
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Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland
Qassiarsuk: This is the site of the Viking settlement of 972 and unlike much of Greenland, offers relatively sheltered grazing land for sheep. Photo: John McLean. (Click to see more images of...
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Greenland ice cores show natural swings are large and warming means less storms
A new high resolution ice core in Greenland surprises even me with the wild swings and detail. The authors are discussing wind direction and storms that occurred in specific years 12,000 years ago,...
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New paper shows solar activity is linked to the Greenland climate even 20,000...
This new paper by Adophi et al uses beryllium, oxygen and carbon isotopes from Greenland ice cores right back as far as the depth of the last ice age, 22,500 years ago, and finds there is a link...
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Hot magma is melting Greenland ice – can windfarms save it?
… Here on the ball of magma called Earth, there’s a hot plume of rocks under Iceland that stretches right across under Greenland. Those hot rocks are melting the ice from below in a band 1,200 km long...
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Climate Change causes more snow and ice on Greenland
Right now, the hottest year ever appears to be causing an extra 4 billion tons a day or so of frozen stuff on Greenland. Thanks to Patrick Moore, @EcoSenseNow, who tweeted: “Holy Shomoly, look what’s...
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Now that was “climate change” 8200 years ago — California lashed by 150 years...
Don’t tell me that cold is nice and the climate was ever ideal A few scientists thought that the climate was stable and well behaved during the Holocene until we invented coal power and the Ford Model...
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Climate change means Greenland is the same temperature now as 1880
Hands up who knew that Greenland has been pretty much the same temperature for the last hundred and forty years? We know that there has been massive melting ice, shrinking ice sheets, a dark zone that...
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Surprise: Largest Glacier in Northern Hemisphere has started growing again
Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland Image: NASA The Jakobshavn is the glacier that dumps more ice in the ocean than any other in the Northern Hemisphere. It made the iceberg that “sank the titanic”....
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Northern Greenland warmer 1000 years ago, warmer in the 1920s too
Thanks to the Hockeyschtick for pointing us at a new study of Greenland ice cores[1]. For the first time, 12 ice cores drilled in the northern section of Greenland have been “stacked” and published....
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Jan 2020: Coldest ever day in Greenland -65C comes, goes, no one notices
The coldest ever day recorded in Greenland stands at -63.3 C (minus 81 F). But on January 2nd in 2020, after Greenland suffered a century of global warming, the thermometer at Summit Camp sunk to at...
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Younger Dryas caused by a volcano after all?
One of the most abrupt climate change events in human existence was the Younger Dryas period about 13,000 years ago, and even though it was so sharp, and so severe, and so recent (geologically...
View ArticleRecord breaking DNA shows Mastodons roaming a hot North Greenland 2 million...
By Jo Nova Kap København is almost the closest point there is to the North Pole on dry land. The survival of some DNA for two million years is astounding all of itself — breaking the record for oldest...
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