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EGU 2012: Arctic vies with Greenland on sea-level
Arctic glaciers and ice caps cover an area of 402,000 square km, roughly 55% of the world's total. But they're punching above their weight when it comes to sea level rise - although Greenland's ice sheet is four times larger,...
EGU 2012: Mann upsets dendroclimatologists
Michael Mann of Penn State University, US, is used to attack from climate contrarians. But his latest work, as he told environmentalresearchweb at the EGU 2012 Assembly in Vienna, has received more interest from dendroclimatologists who "feel our paper...
EGU 2012: four in five heat records due to climate change
This year's EGU General Assembly in Vienna is not currently experiencing heat extremes. But worldwide the number of local monthly record-breaking temperature extremes is now five times on average what would be expected if the climate was stable. This...
EGU 2102: it’s an ill wind for Antarctica’s ice shelves
Changes in the wind circulation around Antarctica are causing the region's ice shelves to lose ice, explained David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey to journalists at the EGU 2012 assembly in Vienna. But the mechanism is different, depending...
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