Guest post by David Middleton, featured image borrowed from Meadow Heights PTA. Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions is blamed by scientists for intensifying storms, raising sea levels and prolonging droughts. Now there’s growing evidence of a positive effect: we may have delayed the next ice age by 100,000 years or more. The…
From the UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH and the “lets ignore some of these other growing glaciers” department The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Together with its National Correspondents in more than 30 countries, the international service just published a…
I wonder what caused a shift in ‘radiative forcing’ 9,000 years ago? Good thing that it happened though, or we would likely not have the civilization we have today. Sudden shift in ‘forcing’ led to demise of Laurentide ice sheet From OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: CORVALLIS, Ore. — A new study has found that the massive…
Hubbard Glacier could permanently dam the entrance to Russell Fiord in as little as 10 years From NOAA Earth Observatory: Since measurements began in 1895, Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier has been thickening and steadily advancing into Disenchantment Bay. The advance runs counter to so many thinning and retreating glaciers nearby in Alaska and around the world. The…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Alarmists are busy recycling old debunked climate claims, in a desperate effort to build up momentum for the upcoming Paris climate conference. According to the Sydney Morning Herald; Glaciers in the Everest region could shrink at least 70 per cent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century…
From the University of British Columbia Seventy per cent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, according to a new study by University of British Columbia researchers. The study found that while warming temperatures…
From Florida State University: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the Earth warms and glaciers all over the world begin to melt, researchers and public policy experts have focused largely on how all of that extra water will contribute to sea level rise. But another impact lurking in that inevitable scenario is carbon. More specifically, what happens…
