Arctic Warming

Post by **clv101** » 18 Dec 2009, 13:18

Temperatures in the Arctic are warming at over twice the rate of the global average with significant implications for the Greenland ice sheet, Arctic sea ice and northern permafrost.

But why is the Arctic warming so fast?

Bandidoz · Post by **Bandidoz** » 27 Dec 2009, 17:12

Good luck with the PhD, quite removed from telecoms. I presume the results would be used to predict sea level rises? Should be good!

Post by **clv101** » 27 Dec 2009, 21:50

Bandidoz wrote:Good luck with the PhD, quite removed from telecoms. I presume the results would be used to predict sea level rises? Should be good!

Thanks and yep, sea level rise is one of the main motivations. Ice melt has already over taken thermal expansion as the main driver of slr.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 28 Dec 2009, 03:57

I hope you can get the research done quickly, Chris, because the government wants to put all its brand spanking new nukes right in the line of the rising sea, alongside the old ones. Bloody criminal in my opinion.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 28 Dec 2009, 12:01

Interestingly, Dungeness, which was the one that really is at sea level with nowhere to run, is not on the shortlist of sites. Most of the others are at least a few metres above sea level.

More importantly, Chris's dad's house is already below sea level at a high spring tide.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 28 Dec 2009, 21:55

biffvernon wrote:More importantly, Chris's dad's house is already below sea level at a high spring tide.

It's an ideal site for a nuclear power station then. Flog it to EDF and buy something at a higher altitude