CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT EXAMINED BY HOUSE SCIENCE COMMITTEE
Richard Alley, lead author, IPCC, Working Group I, testifies before a House Science and Technology Committee hearing on "The State of Climate Change Science 2007: The Findings of the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group I Report," on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 8, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the entire ice mass of Greenland could disappear if temperatures rise by as little as 4 degrees F, with severe worldwide consequences.
CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. geoscientist says although it's known the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, how much ice will melt is undetermined.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a computer program to help predict when icebergs will calve from ice sheets.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. geoscientists say sediment produced by glacial movement might act as a buffer against moderate sea level increases caused by global warming.
BOULDER, Colo., March 2 (UPI) -- Researchers predict a significant rise in sea levels in the next few hundred years as global warming melts the Antarctic ice.
BOULDER, Colo., May 23 (UPI) -- The interior of the East Antarctic ice sheet is gaining mass because of increased snowfall there, a development that should offset sea level rise from other sources around the globe.
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Earth appears to be losing its ice in virtually every form, from glacial peaks to the permafrost frozen deep below ground.
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SAN DIEGO, March 13 (UPI) -- A new study released Thursday on how ancient glaciers melted shows increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide actually tended to lag behind warming temperatures by 700 to 900 years.
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 28 (UPI) -- At the end of the last Ice age the world's sea levels swelled, submerging the shores of coastal regions. Now researchers have pinpointed the cause of that drama
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