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Ice melting across globe at accelerating rate, NASA says: CNN.com 12/17/2008. By Emanuella Grinberg

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Ice melting across globe at accelerating rate, NASA says

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"(CNN) -- Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003, according to NASA scientists, in the latest signs of what they say is global warming.

This speech marks the beginning of a new era in US federal support in stopping climate change.

Matthew Yi at the San Francisco Chronicle (11/15/2008) writes about this new executive order. Something that will, no doubt, have impacts at the local level too.
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Governor tells staff to prepare for warming

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"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Friday directing state agencies to study the effects of global warming and recommend how the state needs to adapt to such changes in land use planning and building new infrastructure.

National Geographic reports that the sea level rise in this century will be somewhere between two and a half and six and a half feet. Of course, looking at the next five-hundred years (which is what lightblueline suggests we do, since we do that anyhow for floods and earthquakes) this would translate into a rise between twelve and a half and thirty-two and a half feet. Split the difference and you have about the seven meter rise lightblueline has always been focused on.

Source:New York Times Magazine, July 26, 2008. by Stephan Faris
This story notes that Greenland may hold great mineral wealth under its ice sheet, and mining companies are lining up!

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Ice Free

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Source: Ventura County Star, June 27, 2008. by Zeke Barlow:

Here is some press for the SLAP action this weekend, with quotes from Alec. Check out the article:Teens' warning on global warming will be overhead

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The Worldwatch Institute posted an essay from James Hansen on the 20th anniversary of his first testimony to congress. It's worth a read (excerpts below):

James Hansen, June 23, 2008

Tipping Points Near

Today, I will testify to Congress about global warming, 20 years after my June 23, 1988 testimony, which alerted the public that global warming was under way. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

The impacts of even temporary inundation of coastal areas can change the map. In this cyclone 100,000 people are feared dead.
Image source: NASA; Modis imagery.
Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
NASA Satellite Captures Image of Cyclone Nargis Flooding in Burma
05.06.08

Source: Reuters, April 15, 2008. By Karin Strohecker

World sea levels to rise 1.5m by 2100--scientists

As the climate models start to incorporate dynamic ice characteristics a better picture of the extent of projected sea level rise in the middle term (before 2100) is emerging. This time frame would mean that people born today will potentially live long enough to experience the impacts.

Stuart Candy, from UH Manoa reports on the emerging attempts by citizen artists to mark their environment as a method to show potential local impacts from climate change. He compares the Hawai'ian chalk line to Eve Mosher's work in New York, the projects underway in Seattle and San Francisco, and the lightblueline effort in Santa Barbara.

Mapping C-change

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"So how effective is this type of project in achieving the ends its animators typically have in mind?