Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
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By , on November 6th, 2011 10 comments   Climate Change   , , , , , , , , , ,  

A new addition to my Confronting Climate Contrarianism series, much too long in waiting. Found this interesting animated gif on Andre Nantel’s G+ stream. He found it with no attribution on Reddit (UPDATE: graph from an excellent post on Skeptical Science). Gernot commented on that stream with a link to a Sydney Morning Herald piece . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole

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Amphipod Stops to Ask NASA for Directions
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By , on March 17th, 2010 9 comments   Organisms   , , , ,  

A pretty cool little discovery! Amphipod hanging out down below 600 feet of ice in an isolated Antarctic basin. Is it lost?? What are you doing there amphipod!? Of course this begs the question of where the heck is it getting its food from? Vents under the ice? Plesiosaur falls from a lost world? . . . → Read More: Amphipod Stops to Ask NASA for Directions

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The glacial pace of sea-level rise
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By , on September 7th, 2008 3 comments   New Research   , , , ,  

Flow velocities of ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be ~ 49 km/yr, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today for Greenland alone to raise sea level 2m. . . . → Read More: The glacial pace of sea-level rise

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