News – Velicogna Research Group

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms

A recent paper by James Hansen dealing with what humanity risks if it can’t keep total global warming below 2°C .

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/27/3684564/james-hansen-climate-danger-hyper-anthropocene/-/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/08/14/what-live-peer-review-looks-like-when-the-planet-is-at-stake/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/08/20/scientists-are-still-trying-to-figure-out-how-fast-we-could-lose-west-antarctica/

Read the entire publication at:

Hansen, J., Sato, M., Hearty, P., Ruedy, R., Kelley, M., Masson-Delmotte, V., Russell, G., Tselioudis, G., Cao, J., Rignot, E., Velicogna, I., Kandiano, E., von Schuckmann, K., Kharecha, P., Legrande, A. N., Bauer, M., and Lo, K.-W.: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming is highly dangerous, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059-20179, doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-2015, 2015.

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September 1, 2015September 1, 2015

ESS professor Isabella Velicogna with the Dalai Lama on “Compassionate Planet”

UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science (ESS) : ESS professor Isabella Velicogna with the Dalai Lama on “Compassionate Planet”: “We can make a difference & take action. The young people really want to make a difference…. Each one of you can.”

Watch the entire event here.

May 11, 2015May 21, 2015

Prof. Velicogna speaks in the Denial101x lectures and interviews

Professor Isabella Velicogna shares her expertise in cryospheric science in the Denial101x lectures and interviews, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) from UQx and edX, helping to make sense of climate science denial.

April 11, 2015May 21, 2015

Condé Nast Traveler: Iceberg-Spotting on Greenland’s Frozen Coast

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Isabella Velicogna along with other UCI glaciologists and students, joined by a NASA oceanographer and technicians from TerraSond Ltd., are pushing to reach remote glacier faces that are melting at an accelerated rate and to map for the first time the contours of these frigid deeps.

Read the full story at Condé Nast Traveler and UCI News.

December 4, 2014April 11, 2015

West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled: NASA-UC Irvine

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A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.

The glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice faster than any other part of Antarctica and are the most significant Antarctic contributors to sea level rise. This study by scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and NASA is the first to evaluate and reconcile observations from four different measurement techniques to produce an authoritative estimate of the amount and the rate of loss over the last two decades.