Tag Archives: Southern Ocean

Significantly reduced volume of dense Antarctic bottom water appears to signal a potentially important aspect of climate warming — a press release from Australia 0

Citations Craig Macaulay, Latest Southern Ocean research shows continuing deep ocean change, CSIRO [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization] (18 May 2012) Steve Rintoul, Ship to shore: scientists return from Southern Ocean, CSIRO (18 May 2012) (MP3 podcast) (access via the above URL, the podcast link is on the right side of the page, under “Downloads”) [...]

Categories: Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

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Published:
23 May 2012 – 15:45
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By BrainiYak

Antarctic ice losses appear to be due to warm ocean currents that melt the shelves from below — and thereby speed up the velocity of inland glaciers’ ice transport to the sea 0

Citation H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke, and L. Padman, Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves, Nature 484(7395): 502-505 (26 April 2012) How the study was done and what it indicates The British Antarctic Survey reported that: Researchers used [...]

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Published:
25 April 2012 – 14:54
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By BrainiYak

How did the science article title, “Nineteenth and twentieth century sea-level changes in Tasmania and New Zealand,” get translated into, “Southern sea levels rise drastically”? 0

If fair-minded intelligence were the key to holding a place on the planet, most of us would be dead Here is an example of the kind of sensationalized nonsense that feeds the anti-science political Right with ammunition.  It comes from comparing a press release from Australia’s University of Queensland to the science abstract that it [...]

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Published:
12 April 2012 – 11:58
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By BrainiYak