Western US Facing Drought Crisis

Scripps
Lead author: Tim Barnett
Where published: Science

The U.S. West will see devastating droughts as global warming reduces the amount of mountain snow and causes the snow that does fall to melt earlier in the year ... results are not good news for those living in the western United States

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West Antarctica Warming Significantly

University of Washington
Lead author: Eric J. Steig
Where published: Nature

Here we show that significant warming extends well beyond the Antarctic Peninsula to cover most of West Antarctica, an area of warming much larger than previously reported.

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Extreme Ice Melt In Greenland

University of Sheffield, U. Colorado, Danish Meteorological Institute, NASA, U. Maryland
Lead author: Edward Hanna
Where published: Journal of Climate

recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years... summer 2003 was exceptionally warm around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which resulted in the second-highest meltwater running off from the Ice Sheet of the last 50 years. Summer 2005 experienced a record-high melt, which was very recently superseded in summer 2007

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