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News on Geophysics in 2011
Billions in savings in health costs through reduced air pollution
14. november 2011
Air pollution causes people to get sick, and illness costs society money. A report from CEEH shows that there would be significant savings for society in a fossil free Denmark, around 2-3 billion kroner annually through 2030
Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 years
18. oktober 2011
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute are part of a team that has calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of the atmosphere using climate models.
NEEM ice core drilling in Greenland provides comprehensive new results
06. oktober 2011
The drilling through the ice sheet at NEEM (77 N, 51V) was completed in August and now scientists can begin to review whether the drilling was a success. 14 nations participated in the scientific work at NEEM.
Large variations in Arctic sea ice
05. august 2011
For the last 10,000 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from constant. For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current amounts.
