Why is warming in the Arctic accelerating and where will this lead to?Where does the extra heat go? Global warming is causing Earth to heat up. As shown on the image below, by Nuccitelli et al.,...
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Saturday, 29 September 2012
You are now entering the nonlinearity zone…
By Paul BeckwithAdapted from a September 28, 2012, post at the Sierra Club Canada blogPush something and it moves a little. Push it a little more and it moves a little more. This is called...
Vanishing Arctic sea ice is rapidly changing global climate
By Paul BeckwithAdapted from a September 21, 2012, post at the Sierra Club Canada blogAbout 5 million years ago continental drift pushed North and South America together, creating the...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
The atmosphere's shift of state and the origin of extreme weather events
By Andrew Glikson, Australian National UniversityAndrew Glikson, earth andpaleo-climate scientist atAustralian National UniversityThe linear nature of global warming trends projected by the IPCC since...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Expedition to study methane gas bubbling out of the Arctic seafloor
The black rectangle on this map shows the general region where Paull and his collaborators have been studying methane releases in the Beaufort Sea. The smaller red rectangle indicates the edge of the...
Monday, 24 September 2012
Changes to Polar Vortex affect mile-deep ocean circulation patterns
Sept. 23, 2012 – A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable “Achilles heel”...
Methane fields in the Laptev Sea
Below is part of a recent interview published by Voice of Russia - click here for the full report. Editorial note: We anxiously await further findings from the research team as to what the source is...
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Professor Peter Wadhams calls for action
In the Youtube video below, Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group of the University of Cambridge and one of the world’s top sea-ice experts, joins...
Friday, 21 September 2012
Arctic sea ice gone in September 2014
NSIDC have already made a preliminary call that September 16 was the date that sea ice extent was at its minimum in the year 2012.Volume is something else and the record low hasn’t been called yet....
Thursday, 20 September 2012
NSIDC calls record 2012 low
This NASA satellite image shows how the Arctic sea ice extent, on Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 years (in yellow). Credit: NASA/Goddard Scientific Visualization...
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