Tag Archives: Southern Ocean

On noes! CO2 dissolving snails in Antarctica

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

From the British Antarctic Survey  and the University of East Anglia comes one of those press releases where I just have to wonder if this won’t eventually go the way of the “global warming causes mutated frogs” claim that turned … Continue reading →

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NASA on Earth’s bipolar sea ice behavior

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Opposite Behaviors? Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks, Antarctic Grows September 2012 witnessed two opposite records concerning sea ice. Two weeks after the Arctic Ocean’s ice cap experienced an all-time summertime low for the satellite era (left), Antarctic sea ice reached a … Continue reading →

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Has Trenberth’s missing heat been found? Southern Oceans are losing heat

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

A paper published August 20th in Geophysical Research Letters finds from newly deployed observation systems that the Southern Oceans show an annual net heat loss of -10 Wm-2. Key Points Southern Ocean air-sea fluxes are under-observed, leading to large uncertainty … Continue reading →

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New research in Antarctica shows CO2 follows temperature “by a few hundred years at most”

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

The question of “which comes first, the temperature or the CO2 rise?” has been much like the proverbial “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” question. This seems to settle it – temperature came first, followed by an increase … Continue reading →

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Researchers publish results of iron ocean fertilization experiment

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

From the Alfred Wegener Institute and the what took you so long department comes this interesting result. Carbon sequestration via algal blooms that sink to the sea floor after expiring – just add iron. The results, which were published in … Continue reading →

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A fish story from Antarctica

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

From Yale University: Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their “anti-freeze” proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed … Continue reading →

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Some interesting thoughts on Antarctic peninsula warming

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

Since there is a discussion going on over at RC on Eric Steig’s recent RC post here that criticizes the paper by O’Donnell et al. in the Journal of Climate, and the O’Donnell et al group are working on a … Continue reading →

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Australia’s white summer, Monbiot’s red fury

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow Excerpts from Physorg.com Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by … Continue reading →

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