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TwitterNorthern hemisphere sea levels ‘will rise the most’ if Antarctic sheet ?????????????The melting of one of the world’s largest ice sheets would alter the Earth’s field of gravity and even its rotation in space so much that it would cause sea levels along some coasts to rise faster than the global average, scientists said yesterday.The rise in sea levels would be highest on the west and east coasts of North America where increases of 25 per cent more than the global average would cause catastrophic flooding in cities such as New York, Washington DC and San Francisco.A study into how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could respond to global warming has found its disintegration would change the focus of the planet’s gravitational field, so sea levels would rise disproportionately more around North America than in other parts of the world.
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Melting ice could cause gravity shift
May 16th, 2009 
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May 7th, 2009 admin Being cool is normally subjective. But there are some things that unequivocally make you uncool. We’re not saying we’re cool, we’re just saying if you own any of these items, you’re not.10. iPhoneWHY YOU THINK YOU’RE COOL: You can access e-mails, high speed internet, and watch videos, all on your phone.
Posted in Tech News Tags: 401k, Accounting Firm, Belt Buckles, Blue Tooth Headset, Celcius, Dinner Parties, Facial Hair, Farenheit, Global Warming, High Speed Internet, Iphone, Jack Daniels, Japanese Word, Lucky Charms, Mustache, Pac Man, Pbr, Rich Parents, Rodeo Champion, Wine Spritzers Comments OffFungus Threatens Prehistoric Cave Drawings
February 27th, 2009 admin Photo: Part of Lascaux famed cave drawings in southwest France, shown last summer. (AP Photo/Pierre Andrieu, Pool)From CBS News:Scientists Meet To Try And Save Lascaux’s Murals In France At Risk Due To Global Warming.(AP) Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains – aggravated by global warming – that threaten France’s prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.Black stains have spread across the cave’s prehistoric murals of bulls, felines and other images, and scientists have been hard-pressed to halt the fungal creep.Marc Gaulthier, who heads the Lascaux Caves International Scientific Committee, said the challenges facing the group are vast and global warming now poses an added problem.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Andrieu, Ap Photo, Biologists, Bulls, Cbs, Cbs News, Challenges, Felines, Fungus, Gaulthier, Geologists, Global Warming, International Scientific Committee, Lascaux Cave Drawings, Lascaux Caves, Murals, Prehistoric Cave Drawings, Scientists, Southwest France, Stains Comments OffBritain’s Lessons From The Winter of 2008-2009
February 20th, 2009 admin Stonehenge saw it’s heaviest snow in many years (Photo from Watts Up With That)From Watts Up With That:The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious. 1.
Posted in Science News Tags: Air Temperatures, Calm, Cold In The Winter, Coldest Weather, Coldest Winter, Decades, Global Warming, Photo, Reason, Russian Natural Gas, Solar Power, Stonehenge, Sun, Watts, Wind Power, Winter 2, Winter Weather, Wish List Comments OffGlobal Warming Studies Often Depend On Average Citizens
February 8th, 2009 admin Photo: From Care Global Warming.From McClatchy:WASHINGTON — It has to do with brown-headed cowbirds and clear-cut forests, lilacs and wildfires, vineyards in the Rhine Valley, marmots, dandelions, tadpoles, cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in Washington and musty old records stuffed in shoe boxes in people’s closets and stacked on museum shelves.As scientists track global warming, they’re using sometimes centuries-old data to assess its impact on plants, animals, insects, fish, reptiles and amphibians.
Posted in Science News Tags: Cherry Trees, Closets, Cowbirds, Dandelions, Degree Rise, Dramatic Effects, Ecosystem, Global Warming, Greg Jones, Insignificant Change, Lilacs, Marmots, Mcclatchy, Reptiles And Amphibians, Rhine Valley, Shoe Boxes, Southern Oregon University, Tadpoles, Tidal Basin, Wine Grapes Comments OffTiming of Seasons Is Changing
February 4th, 2009 admin Image from BusinessweekFrom Live Science:The Earth’s seasons have shifted back in the calendar year, with the hottest and coldest days of the years now occurring almost two days earlier, a new study finds.This shift could be the work of global warming, the researchers say.To figure this out, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard studied temperature data from 1850 to 2007 compiled by the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in the United Kingdom.They found that temperatures over land in the 100-year period between 1850 and 1950 showed a simple, natural pattern of variability, with the hottest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere landing around July 21. But from the mid-1950s onward (the period when global average temperatures began to rise), the hottest day came 1.7 days earlier.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Average Temperatures, Businessweek, Calendar Year, Changing Image, Climate Research Unit, Day Of The Year, East Anglia, Global Warming, Harvard, Hottest Day Of The Year, Live Science, Mid 1950s, Northern Hemisphere, Scientists, Temperature Data, University Berkeley, University Of California, University Of California Berkeley, University Of East Anglia, Variability Comments OffThe 21st Century Noah’s Ark – Lilypad City
February 4th, 2009 admin The 21st Century Noah’s Ark – Lilypad CityThis is one man’s answer to the threat of Global warming. The 21st century Noah’s Ark if you like, called a Lilypad. Award-winning architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a self-sustainable Lilypad City as a long-term solution to the problem of rising sea levels caused by climate change.
Posted in Tech News Tags: 21st Century, Architect, Award Winning, Callebaut, Century City, Climate Change, Drifts, Global Warming, Lake Mountains, Lilypad, Long Term Solution, Noah Ark, Noah S Ark, Ocean Currents, Rising Sea Levels, Shopping Malls Comments OffCO2, Temperatures, and Ice AgesA
February 2nd, 2009 admin Click The Image To Enlarge(Source: http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yrfig.htm)From Watts Up With That:It is generally accepted that CO2 is lagging temperature in Antarctic graphs. To dig further into this subject therefore might seem a waste of time. But the reality is, that these graphs are still widely used as an argument for the global warming hypothesis. But can the CO2-hypothesis be supported in any way using the data of Antarctic ice cores?At first glance, the CO2 lagging temperature would mean that it’s the temperature that controls CO2 and not vice versa.Read more ….
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