Here’s a conversation between me and the climate denier I mentioned yesterday in my post: Fringe Belief on Climate Change. Reader: “Climate change is a totalitarian position.” (He concluded this from someone who said that the science of climate change …
Tag: Greenland ice sheet
First Time Ever Recorded, Rain at the Summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet
From Gizmodo: Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain.
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Visualizing the Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
As we head into summer in the Northern Hemisphere, this may be a good time to look at the melting ice. Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice….yesterday alone. For those wanting to know what this looks like, here’s the approximate …
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The Dynamics Deep Within the Greenland Ice Sheet
This fabulous video presents the melting of the Arctic sea ice in a totally accessible way, while maintaining enough scientific rigor to leave no doubt as to its validity.
A Few Individuals Can Make a Huge Difference in Environmental Justice
Each day we watch the slow grind of the forces that shape our world in terms of environmental justice. We ask ourselves questions that have no answers currently: How much of the Amazon rain forest will we be able to …
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Planning To Avert Catastrophic Climate Change
Reader David Stout sent me this excellent article on the intelligent rebuilding of the New Jersey and New York seaboards after Hurricane Sandy. It contains a great number of terrific points about applying common sense in re-establishing housing, commercial buildings, …
Global Climate Change — Framing the Conversation
I had a chat with a friend the other day on the likely future for humankind vis-à-vis global climate change. He asked, “What do you think it will take, Craig, for us to muster the will to do something? If …
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