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Louis Gray at the Telegraph (UK) reports on recent findings from scientists studying Greenland. Ice sheet in Greenland melting at record rate

Here is an excerpt from the report:

"The Greenland ice sheet is melting at a record rate due to global warming, according to a British-led expedition currently taking measurements from the treacherous glaciers.

NOAA has released the "State of the Climate" report for 2009. It was a warm year.
State of the Climate
Here is the beginning of the abstract:

The National Academy of Sciences has begun to issue reports on national priorities in response to global climate change. These reports are housed on a new website called America's Climate Choices .
May 19, 2010

STRONG EVIDENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE UNDERSCORES NEED
FOR ACTIONS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS AND BEGIN ADAPTING TO IMPACTS

Wired News reports on Jim Titus's data, which show the vulnerability of Eastern US beaches to even small amounts of sea-level rise. (Jim has been providing EPA data for the Lightblueline effort).

You can read the whole article on the Wired site: EPA Scientist Says East Coast Beaches Threatened by Sea Level, But Nobody’s Listening

Here is an excerpt:

In Santa Barbara, you can walk on seaside sidewalk and look up to see ribbons marking the 7 meter elevation above your head. These ribbons and the associated information being handed out this week are the work of a group of students at Santa Barbara High School.
Their website describes their work:

The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 2009, Margot Roosevelt reporting)

The initial results of the Governor's project to inform coastal areas about potential vulnerability to sea-level rise are beginning to arrive.

Here is an excerpt from the LA Times article:

"California's interagency Climate Action Team on Wednesday issued the first of 40 reports on impacts and adaptation, outlining what the state's residents must do to deal with the floods, erosion and other effects expected from rising sea levels.

The New York Times (March 13, 2009) reports from Climatewire (JEAN-MARIE MACABREY reporting) the results of the special IPCC meeting in Copenhagen.

Here is an excerpt:

"Scientists are gloomy; economists are more upbeat. Such was the bottom line of an epic, three-day international congress of climate change experts that ended here yesterday.

Source: University of Copenhagen March 10, 2009

"Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower end of the spectrum it looks increasingly unlikely that sea level rise will be much less than 50 cm by 2100. This means that if emissions of greenhouse gases is not reduced quickly and substantially, even the best case scenario will hit low lying coastal areas housing one in ten humans on the planet hard.