Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet volume lag climate changes, such that today’s climate could still be affecting its size in thousands of years’ time

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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Fig 1. The model domain of the ice sheet model.
IMAGE:THE LEFT SUBPANEL SHOWS THE ICE THICKNESS USED TO INITIALIZE THE MODEL (SHADING) AND THE CONTEMPORARY COAST LINE (BLACK CONTOUR LINE) WHILE THE RIGHT SUBPANEL DEPICTS THE CORRESPONDING BEDROCK TOPOGRAPHY. THESE DATA ARE DERIVED FROM THE ETOPO1 DATA SET [42].viewmoreC REDIT: YANG ET AL., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://ift.tt/35WoWBi)

Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet volume lag climate changes, such that today?s climate could still be affecting its size in thousands of years? time

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Article URL:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259816

Article Title:Impact of paleoclimate on present and future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Author Countries:Germany, China, The Netherlands

Funding:This work was supported through a grant (Global sea level change since the Mid Holocene: Background trends and climate-ice sheet feedbacks) from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the Special Priority Program (SPP)-1889 ?Regional Sea Level Change and Society? (SeaLevel). C. Rodehacke has…

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Coal is the fuel greens cannot kill

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

Worldwide, efforts to shutter coal mines are yielding cartoonish results. The post Coal is the fuel greens cannot kill appeared first on CFACT. via CFACT https://ift.tt/3pLmoyX December 11, 2021 at 04:18AM

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Geographers and COP26 – looking back and forward?

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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By Alex Jackman and Liz Fox-Tucker, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Geographers are central to tackling climate change. At COP26 last year – and at many related events – geographers were able to share their expertise and insights on climate change and the action necessary to limit it. The RGS-IBG have been advising, facilitating and promoting these geographical contributions widely over the last year in both the professional and academic communities. Here we highlight a small fraction of the research, reporting, public engagement, advocacy and impact that geographers are achieving around climate change and offer some suggestions as to what might come next.

Geographers at COP26 – from Chartered Geographers…

From our Chartered Geographer community, Paul Munday explained how climate resilience is now integral to credit risk decision-making, with data and modelling enabling analysts to “untangle the links between credit and resilience” and make clear the…

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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This artist?s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope in space shows all its major elements fully deployed. The telescope was folded to fit into its launch vehicle, and then was slowly unfolded over the course of two weeks after launch. Credits: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez


NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.

A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission will explore every phase of cosmic history ? from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe.

?Today, NASA achieved another engineering milestone decades in the making. While the journey is not complete, I join the Webb team in breathing a little easier and imagining the future breakthroughs bound to inspire the…

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