Two earthquakes struck the waters off the coast of Jan Mayen Island on August 30, 2012. One had a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter Scale and occurred at 13:43 pm (UTC), and was followed eight...
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Friday, 31 August 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Arctic sea ice area already shrank by over 81 percent this year
Arctic sea ice area already shrank by over 81% this year.Arctic sea ice area was 13.70851 million square km on the 88th day of 2012, as illustrated on the image below by The Cryosphere Today. The...
Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Food Emergency
Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Food Emergencya video by Peter Carter ofArcticClimateEmergency....
Diagram of Doom
Above diagram was part of a poster displayed at the 2011 AGU meeting in San Francisco by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG). It was accompanied by the following text: In the Arctic, three problems...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Opening further Doorways to Doom
Until now, the Arctic has been protected from overheating in a number of ways. Negative Arctic Oscillation conditions are associated withhigher pressure in the Arctic and a weakened polar vortex(yellow...
Paul Beckwith on ice speed and drift
Above image shows Arctic sea ice extent (total area of at least 15% ice concentration) for the last 7 years, compared to the average 1972-2011, as calculated by the Polar View team at the...
NSIDC: Arctic sea ice breaks lowest extent on record
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reports that Arctic sea ice has broken the previously lowest extent on record, which was in 2007. Arctic sea ice extent fell to 4.10 million square kilometers...
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Future of Arctic Ice: The Three Perspectives
By Veli Albert KallioVeli Albert Kallio in front of Peter Wadhams and John Nissen atAPPCCG event, March 13, 2012, House of Commons, LondonI use three type sources to assess...
Saturday, 25 August 2012
How much sea ice is lost daily?
How much sea ice is lost in the Arctic daily? What are your estimates (in square km and cubic km)? Paul BeckwithPaul Beckwith, B.Eng, M.Sc. (Physics),Ph. D. student (Climatology) andPart-time Professor,...
Cyclone Warning
By Harold Hensel, edited by Sam CaranaThe Google Earth view below shows an Arctic Cyclone going over Alaska and entering the Arctic Ocean.Arctic - Google Earth viewThe warm rain and wind will further...
Arctic sea ice extent update
The image below shows sea ice extent as calculated by the Polar View team at the University of Bremen, Germany, updated August 25, 2012.The image below, edited from the National Snow & Ice...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Record low sea ice area
Arctic sea ice area reached a record low of 2.87746 million square km on the 230th day of 2012, as illustrated on the image below by The Cryosphere Today.Below the sea surface temperature anomaly for...
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Tipping Points
The increasing melt may be a harbinger of greater changes such as the release of methane compounds from frozen soils that could exacerbate warming, and a thaw of the Greenland ice sheet, which would...
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Arctic sea ice updates
Above diagram shows sea ice extent as calculated by the Polar View team at the University of Bremen, Germany.Paul Beckwith warns that a second cyclone is threatening to batter the remaining sea ice...
Friday, 17 August 2012
Opening the Doorways to Doom
Snow and ice protect the Arctic from overheating in summer. Firstly the brightness of the snow and ice cover ensures that most sunlight gets reflected back into space. Secondly, a lot of the sunlight...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
CryoSat
The image below shows how much the older, thicker sea ice has declined over the years. This decline doesn’t become apparent when focusing on sea ice extent; volume measurements are needed to reveal...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Sea ice extent update August 14, 2012
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado has released an update. Excerpts follow below, for the full post, see A summer storm in the Arctic.Arctic sea ice extent...
Another Arctic Cyclone brewing
Paul Beckwith fears that another Arctic cyclone could be starting up about 5 days from now. GFSx model shows it churning from about August 19th or 20th onward to the end of the forecast (at least...
Monday, 13 August 2012
Getting the picture
Have a look at the picture below. It shows a graph based on data calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) developed at the Applied Physics Laboratory/Polar...
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Charting Mankind’s Arctic Methane Emission Exponential Expressway to Total Extinction in the Next 50 Years
By Malcolm P.R. LightAugust 10, 2012 Abstract The exponential increase in the Arctic atmospheric methane derived from the destabilization of the subsea Arctic methane hydrates is defined by both the...
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