New Study Shows How Fast Ice Sheets Can Change | Climate Central

a new paper released Thursday in Science says that ice can respond a lot faster than anyone had thought.

During a very brief episode of cooling that happened about 8,200 years ago, glaciers spread across Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic, at an almost astonishing pace, said the authors.

DEFRA Reluctant To Reduce Premature Deaths « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

So at the top end of their projections, climate change could result in 18100 less premature deaths. (These figures, incidentally, do not take account of deaths due to traffic and other accidents – milder weather in winter would be expected to lead to many less traffic related fatalities).

And they are trying to stop this happening?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The IPCC Sinks to a New Low

Not that the IPCC has shown a commitment to accuracy, but here it relies on a bureaucratic dodge to ignore the false information it put out via press reslease. Not good.

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