A polar bear attacked a camping site Friday in Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands, killing a 38-year-old Dutch man before being shot and killed by onlookers, authorities on the Arctic island…
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Increasing Arctic freshwater is driven by climate change
New, first-of-its-kind research from the University of Colorado Boulder shows that climate change is driving increasing amounts of freshwater in the Arctic Ocean.
UNSW Climate Activists Urge Businesses to Spend Billions Building Services they Already Have
As the flow of free government cash dries up, “Ship of Fools” University of New South Wales is urging businesses to invest billions creating jobs and building unreliable renewable electricity…
Arctic’s ‘Hottest Day’? Not So Fast
Guest post by Michael Kile, Consider the media reaction to an alleged 38C reading on June 20, 2020 – “around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of summer” –…
CLAIM: 100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of summer put an exclamation point on an astonishing transformation of the…
Vice: Climate Change is Increasing Violent Conflict
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Vice, humans are tearing each other apart because of climate change. This Is How Climate Change Will Increase Human Conflict Water wars, state…
First results from NASA’s ICESat-2 mission map 16 years of melting ice sheets
University of Washington Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists led by the University of Washington has made precise measurements…
Tying celestial mechanics to Earth’s ice ages
From Physics Today Gradual falls and sharp rises in temperature for millions of years have profoundly affected living conditions on the planet and, consequently, our own evolution. Mark Maslin is…
Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide –Part 2 of 3
[apologies to readers for the delay between Part 1 and Part 2 has been too long. Because of this I am repeating the introduction. ~cr] Continued from Part 1 Emotional,…
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
Imperial College London Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. A team from the…
The Insignificance of Greenland’s Ice Mass Loss in Five Easy Charts…
Guest geological perspective by David Middleton This is a sort of a spin-off of Rutgers University Global Snow Lab and “the Snows of Yesteryear” and A Geological Perspective of the…
NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys
From NASA Global Climate Change NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a ten-year mission to collect polar data between ICESat and ICESat-2, may be coming to a close, but its hundreds of terabytes…
No, Global Warming is Not Causing More Frequent Arctic Outbreaks
Reposted from Chris Martz Weather Posted on 10 Nov 2019 by Chris Martz By Chris Martz | November 9, 2019 INTRODUCTION Just when wildfires weren’t enough, we now have people…
Cold pattern continues for much of the US with the next impressive Arctic blast arriving late in the week in the Mid-Atlantic/NE US and another one early next week
Guest post by Paul Dorian Overview November has started off much colder-than-normal across the nation and there won’t be any let up for the eastern 2/3rds of the nation into…
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
From MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Monday, October 21, 2019 Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather…
Back to the Anthropocene! Arctic Sea Ice Edition
Guest geological story-telling by David Middleton Do you ever get tired of smarmy, snot-nosed articles like this? Obituary: Remembering the Holocene Epoch BY CHRIS WILSON AUGUST 29, 2016 The Holocene…
Record Antarctic Stratospheric Warming Causes Sept. 2019 Global Temperature Update Confusion
From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog October 4th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. While the vast majority of our monthly global temperature updates are pretty routine, September 2019 is…
Vintage film shows Thwaites Glacier ice shelf melting faster than previously observed
Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Newly digitized vintage film has doubled how far back scientists can peer into the history of underground ice in Antarctica, and revealed…
Ice Nucleating Particles Carried From Below a Phytoplankton Bloom to the Arctic Atmosphere
Paper at Geophysical Research Letters. J. M. Creamean J. N. Cross R. Pickart L. McRaven P. Lin A. Pacini R. Hanlon D. G. Schmale J. Ceniceros T. Aydell N. Colombi…
Glaciologists unveil most precise map ever of Antarctic ice velocity
From the AGU Project utilized 25 years of data from six international satellite missions 29 July 2019 Joint Release WASHINGTON — Constructed from a quarter century’s worth of satellite data,…
The polar ice melt myth
From CFACT: According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org), ice currently covers 6 million square miles, or one tenth the Land area on Earth, about the area…
Basic Science: 4 Keys to Melt Fears About Ice Sheets Melting
William Ward, April 18, 2019 The world is drowning in articles about catastrophic sea level rise (SLR), reminding us that if the ice sheets melt, 260 feet of water will…
U.S. Arctic Oil & Gas Exploration: A Sense of Urgency
Guest serious post by David Middleton I ran across a very lucid and informative article on Real Clear Energy today. The author is Robert Dillon, “a senior adviser on energy…
Antarctica about to calve an Iceberg about twice size of New York City.
From NASA Earth Observatory and the “doing what ice shelves normally do but now we have satellites to observe them” department. Countdown to Calving at Brunt Ice Shelf Cracks growing…
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