Yale Environment 360: Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accelerated, Study Shows 10 JUN 2011: SNOWPACK DECLINE IN ROCKIES HAS RAPIDLY ACCELERATED, STUDY SHOWS A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the...
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Latest GRACE data: record ice loss in 2010
The GRACE satellites continue to measure the change in gravity around the Greenland ice sheet. Here is the latest data showing the record amount of ice loss Greenland experienced in the 2010 summer. H/T to Tenney Naumer from Climate Change: The Next Generation and Dr John Wahr at the University of Colorado who analysed the GRACE data and granted permission to reproduce it here. Figure 1: Greenland ice mass anomaly – deviation from the...
USGS report: Asian glacier retreat, driven by climate change, “increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas”
From Climate Progress: Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to sea-level rise. Talk about your well-timed studies — see “One-fifth of Pakistan is under water.” The U.S. Geological Survey collaborated with 39 international scientists — “the most knowledgeable glaciologists for each geographic region...