TigerHawk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Notwithstanding claims that the Northern Hemisphere's sea ice would shrink to record lows this year, satellites indicate that there is almost a million square kilometers more of it this year than on the same day last year. It remains about a million square kilometers below the mean for the 1979-2000 base period. In the Southern Hemisphere there is also more sea ice than on this day a year ago,
Climate Audit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MOSCOW -- A spokesman for a Russian scientific institution says global warming is causing Arctic sea ice to melt earlier than it normally does, forcing the evacuation of a research station in the western Arctic.
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Newsbusters wonders if the mainstream media will bother to report this news: Arctic sea ice extent on July 16 stood at 8.91 million square kilometers (3.44 square miles). While extent was below the 1979 to 2000 average of 9.91 square kilometers (3.83 million square miles), it was 1.05 million square kilometers (0.41 million square miles) above the value for July 16, 2007. ( NSIDC ) Power Line has more...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one [...]
Stoat (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Eat your hearts out real scientists :-) See here . I think its hung off a trip in the icebreaker that QS got; see his blog I get to say Bets have already been laid on whether this summer's ice loss will be more than last year's. William Connolley, a software engineer who used to model sea-ice changes at the British Antarctic Survey, has taken in roughly €300 (US$470) so far in the informal online...
Open Mind (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Last year the north pole experienced a truly astounding redution in sea ice. As a result, much of the older, thicker sea ice melted. The ice present now is mostly 1st-year ice, thinner than was present before; as a result, the new ice is more vulnerable to melting during the summer heat. [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Large red sea spider walking over white hydroid at 25 m. Antarctic sea spiders can be up to 500mm across and have up to 12 legs. Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is going [...]
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs, and new data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is going to get hit more frequently. (British Antarctic Survey press release)
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The oil is considered "technically recoverable" using existing technology, but the USGS did not consider the cost of overcoming obstacles to drilling, such as permanent sea ice or deep ocean waters. About 84 percent of the undiscovered oil and gas is offshore, the USGS estimated, but much of it is close enough to land to fall under national territorial claims.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The oil is considered "technically recoverable" using existing technology, but the USGS did not consider the cost of overcoming obstacles to drilling, such as permanent sea ice or deep ocean waters. About 84 percent of the undiscovered oil and gas is offshore, the USGS estimated, but much of it is close enough to land to fall under national territorial claims.
Earning My Turns (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Here's another batch of photos from my ICML return flight. The sea ice on Hudson Bay was far into its summer disintegration. Some of the patterns of dirty ice look like fossils or plankton skeletons with a mysterious fractal geometry. What would it feel like to touch it?
Spark It Up!!! (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Jerry From on High has the video of Algore's fleet of Lincolns and SUVs'....Idling with the AC on while Algore speaks. You gotta see this! In related news, Yankee Phil (The Philbilly) reports OVER 1,000,000 Square kilometers more ice in the arctic this year. Arctic sea ice extent on July 16 stood at 8.91 million square kilometers (3.44 square miles). While extent was below the 1979 to 2000
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could face extinction. So why not pack a few off to Antarctica, where the sea ice will never run out? It may seem like a preposterous question. But polar bears are just the tip of the "assisted colonization" iceberg. Other possibilities: moving African big game to the American Great Plains, or...
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could face extinction. So why not pack a few off to Antarctica, where the sea ice will never run out? It may seem like a preposterous question. But polar bears are just the tip of the "assisted colonization" iceberg. Other possibilities: moving African big game to the American Great Plains, or...
