Antarctica is melting! #StopAdani #auspol #qldpol #ClimateChange

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Underwater melting of Antarctic ice far greater than thought, study finds

The base of the ice around the south pole shrank by 1,463 square kilometres between 2010 and 2016

Jonathan WattsTue 3 Apr 2018 02.18 AEST

Hidden underwater melt-off in the Antarctic is doubling every 20 years and could soon overtake Greenland to become the biggest source of sea-level rise, according to the first complete underwater map of the world’s largest body of ice.

Warming waters have caused the base of ice near the ocean floor around the south pole to shrink by 1,463 square kilometres – an area the size of Greater London – between 2010 and 2016, according to the new study published in Nature Geoscience.

The research by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds suggests climate change is affecting the Antarctic more than previously believed and is likely…

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Coal or beaches? Time to choose. #StopAdani #auspol #qldpol #ClimateChange

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Another Thing That Climate Change Takes From Us: Our Beaches

Poles without ice. Oceans without oxygen. Areas of the planet without people.

These are just some of the effects of a rapidly warming planet.

Add to the list: coasts without beaches.

You might assume this will happen sometime in the distant future, when sea levels rise. But it’s already happening.

Climate change is taking beaches away from humans — in a physical way, as rising seas erode them, and in the way humans interact with them, as several governments have closed beaches to visitors to limit further damage.

Just this week, the Thai government announced that it was closing one of its most famous beaches for four months out of the year.

Its rationale?

To allow nearby coral reefs to recover from the effect of millions of visitors, which range from pollution to physical destruction from boats and…

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Climate Oil Conspiracy “Smoking Gun” Goes Up in Smoke

Watts Up With That?

CO2 enhanced person with future cat-like climate engineered overlord.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

h/t Willie Soon – The California vs Chevron lawsuit against five oil companies is not going well for greens. After suggesting Climate Scientist Miles Allen presented a misleading graph about CO2, and after receiving an admission from Oceanographer Gary Griggs that ice ages and other violent climate shifts, far greater than today’s mild warming, can be caused by natural forcings, Judge Alsup turned to the centrepiece of the conspiracy charge, the “Smoking Gun” memo.

Climate Alarmists May Inherit the Wind

They likened a courtroom ‘tutorial’ to the Scopes Monkey Trial. But their side got schooled.

By Phelim McAleer
April 1, 2018 1:58 p.m. ET
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San Francisco

Five American oil companies find themselves in a San Francisco courtroom. California v. Chevron is a civil action brought by the city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland…

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Petition · Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter: Stop The Execution Of One Grizzly Bear! · Change.org

On Thursday, March 22nd, 2018. Ohio’s Fish and Game Commission voted for a hunt that would allow for the glory killing of one male grizzly bear. This is totally senseless and unjustified action on behalf of an agency that prides itself on conservation and touts the grizzly bears’ recovery as a success.

When the Yellowstone grizzly bears lost their federal protections the grizzly bears’ future landed in the hands of three neighboring states Montana, Wyoming, Idaho. Montana voted against a grizzly bear hunting season. Wyoming is moving forward with plans to slaughter 24 grizzly bears this fall and Idaho has set its sights on one male grizzly bear.

Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area are challenged with ever-growing threats such as habitat loss, human cause fatalities, lost a vital food sources, and now trophy hunting.

The fact is that this hunt has nothing to do with necessity or science, but rather an agency catering to special interest groups and offering them an opportunity to “bag” their trophy.

https://www.change.org/p/idaho-governor-c-l-butch-otter-stop-the-execution-of-one-grizzly-bear