{"id":521490,"date":"2010-04-09T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5506"},"modified":"2010-04-09T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T05:45:12","slug":"ice-missions-to-measure-climate-change-takes-off-by-louise-gray-environment-correspondent-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521490","title":{"rendered":"Ice missions to measure climate change takes off by Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=18\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;World Temperatures&quot;\">World Temperatures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>The first satellite to measure Arctic and Antarctic ice in detail has successfully taken off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;ice mission&#8217;, led by British scientists, will show how melting ice could affect weather patterns in the future in the so called &#8220;Day After Tomorrow&#8221; scenario. The European Space Agency satellite, that cost \u00a3122 million to build, took off on a Russian launcher rocket from Kazakhstan and has already sent signals back to Earth. <\/p>\n<p>Duncan Wingham, a climate physicist at University College London, was relieved to see the launch after a previous attempt landed in the sea five years ago. The 1,543 pound CyroSat 2 will be able to measure the thickness of Arctic and Antarctic ice to within a centimetre \u2013 an accuracy unmatched until now. <\/p>\n<p>The film The Day After Tomorrow imagined that the melting of the polar ice caps would cause a second ice age by reversing the gulf stream. Prof Wingham said that scenario was &#8220;silly&#8221; but the satellite will give scientists a better idea of how fast Polar ice is melting, which can affect weather systems around the world, including in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anything, this mission is even more important now than a decade ago when we first proposed it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5506\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NsysaEFVRTW_jd1ByHDuThhmkf0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NsysaEFVRTW_jd1ByHDuThhmkf0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NsysaEFVRTW_jd1ByHDuThhmkf0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NsysaEFVRTW_jd1ByHDuThhmkf0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/6BzXTyVmoCw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: World Temperatures The first satellite to measure Arctic and Antarctic ice in detail has successfully taken off. The &#8216;ice mission&#8217;, led by British scientists, will show how melting ice could affect weather patterns in the future in the so called &#8220;Day After Tomorrow&#8221; scenario. The European Space Agency satellite, that cost \u00a3122 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}