Antarctic waters changing due to climate - Page 5

saltwn · #41 (**permalink**) 05-07-2012, 01:42 PM

I don't know if this is it but here is one story:

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From eroding coastline to depleted fish stocks, the effects of climate change are being felt along West Africa's coast and governments and environmental groups are coming together to talk about what can be done to mitigate its impact.

The ocean breaking on southern Senegal's coastline does not look much different from any other beach. But a closer a look at the Palmarin peninsula, reveals a different story, uprooted palm trees mark eroded coastlines and vestiges of buildings mark where a village was washed away two decades ago.

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An island visible from the tip of Palmarin used to be connected to the peninsula, but rising waters and a tidal wave in 1987 separated the two with the gap getting wider and deeper with each year, according to local residents.

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Seven countries along West Africa's coast, including Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Cape Verde, gathered for a USAID-funded conference this month, the first of three scheduled, to discuss and compare climate-change concerns in the region.

A WWF coordinator in Gambia, Ibrahima Mat Dia, explained on a field trip for participants about one village in Palmarin called Kad Diakhanor that will eventually have to move due to encroaching waters.

"This village has to be relocated somewhere else, but for the community, there are not enough facilities over there, they do no want to move," said Dia.
West Africa Explores Ways to Mitigate Climate Change's Effects | West Africa | English
Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency Director Kolleh Bangura says he sees similar situations in his country.

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mlurp · #42 (**permalink**) 05-07-2012, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

I don't know if this is it but here is one story:

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Now wait for the ones who don't buy into something is happening and without combined world action they will be the ones saying heck that is not suppose to be happening.

mlurp · #43 (**permalink**) 05-20-2012, 01:28 PM

While searching for an item in another story I came across this... A govt. run JPL/Space.com site. Man it has plenty to keep people interested in these type of events busy all day.
I am hoping It will bring up the video on the Antarctic (newest) ice shelve start of breaking away, as the speaker continued with the results.

If not then on the left side is 3 items. We want Over Earth: Birth of an a giant Iceberg.

May 2012 Solar Eclipse - Where, When and How To VIew it | Video | Space.com

jamesrage · #44 (**permalink**) 05-21-2012, 04:50 PM

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Not that our residents anti-climate changes will belive this. Yet there are plenty of links a picture and a 3-D grapic at the site with the rest of this bit of news.

Antarctic waters changing due to climate: study - Yahoo! News

IN case no one else posted this.

Antarctic Sea Ice Video - YouTube

saltwn · #45 (**permalink**) 05-21-2012, 05:54 PM

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IN case no one else posted this.
Antarctic Sea Ice Video - YouTube

NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep interior to its coast, will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from climate change. The team created the map using integrated radar observations from a consortium of international satellites.

"This is like seeing a map of all the oceans' currents for the first time. It's a game changer for glaciology," said Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University of California (UC), Irvine. Rignot is lead author of a paper about the ice flow published online Thursday in Science Express. "We are seeing amazing flows from the heart of the continent that had never been described before.

Animation: Flow of Ice Across Antarctica - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

mlurp · #46 (**permalink**) 05-22-2012, 12:50 PM

I didn't see a thanks button on your last post salty so

for posting the changes.

saltwn · #47 (**permalink**) 05-22-2012, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by mlurp

I didn't see a thanks button on your last post salty so

for posting the changes.

Weird huh?

Maybe too many pictures...or not enough space...

mlurp · #48 (**permalink**) 05-24-2012, 01:19 PM

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Weird huh?

Maybe too many pictures...or not enough space...

What ever, I thank you for finding that and spending your time to show something is happening..

I guess in time the non believers will have to come around.

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