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Melting of significant portions of Arctic permafrost could accelerate climate change into a catastrophe
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Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.
As the climate changes, Southern Ocean upwelling may increase, which could accelerate ice shelf melting, release more carbon into the atmosphere and limit the ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?
NASA will launch a scientific instrument into space next month to measure the salt content of the world's oceans, information that could help confirm scientists» suspicions that climate change is accelerating the world's water cycle.
«We can't look into recent history and find this particular cocktail of accelerated climate change, habitat destruction, and global extinction.
In defence of the «Times» any publication aiming to tap into growing public interest must be good — as climate change accelerates up a public's cause for concern «Richter scale».
«Positive feedbacks (self - reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.»
In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agrclimate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate AgrClimate Agreement.
It says climate change could accelerate the spread of malaria, yellow fever and cholera — and while investment into education to ensure humans are more resilient to climatic shocks is important, there also needs to be research into the link between rising temperatures, water stress and the spread of those diseases.
Incorporating fossil fuels» largely externalized costs, such as climate change and pollution - related illnesses, into the price of fossil - generated electricity would further accelerate PV's march to grid parity.
Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high - latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth's climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates.
In a separate study, the USGS reports that roughly 53 % of America's carbon — material that could stay in the permafrost or, in a warming world, escape into the atmosphere to accelerate climate change even further — is stored in the forests, wetlands and permafrost of Alaska.