@***super_nova*** wrote:Antarctic, Greenland ice melt accelerating: IPCC leak September 6, 2013
Ice in Antarctica and Greenland is disappearing faster and may drive sea levels higher than predicted this century, according to leaked United Nations documents.
Greenland's ice added six times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the prior 10 years, according to a draft of the UN's most comprehensive study on climate change. Antarctica had a fivefold increase, and the UN is raising its forecast for how much the two ice sheets will add to Earth's oceans by 2100.
The changes in the planet's coldest areas are a “very good indicator” of a warming planet, according to Walt Meier, a research scientist with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
“It's an early warning system,” Meier said in a phone interview from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “When you think about a couple of degrees of warming, in the UK or US, it's not something that would be too noticeable, whereas in an area of snow and ice, it can have a huge effect. With sea ice, minus 1 to plus 1 is the difference between skating on the ice and swimming in the ocean.”
ANDAntarctic ice at greater risk of melting than presumed, spy satellite data showshttp://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4669082/antarctic-ice-melting-risk-spy-satellite-data
good to see something sensible posted. 
the rest are a led by journalists (and poor ones at that)
@lightningdance wrote:Oh dear me, the old leftist last resort is to quote a God they don't believe in. The smell of desperation is thick, Labor GONE now GLOBAL WARMING discredidted, what's left for them.
i was quoting the only allies you lot have 
(apart from big tobacco and energy of course)
