Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
During the month of February the gap between… [more]
SENATORS SPEAKING ALL NIGHT TO URGE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE MONDAY, MARCH 10 – TUESDAY, MARCH 11 Washington, DC – Immediately following votes on the evening of Monday, March 10 until approximately 9 am ET Tuesday, March 11, Senators from… [more]
Working on a piece about the California drought, which is, needless to say, a bit of a moving target, and more so since it has entered the political conversation after being mentioned by President Obama as evidence of climate change.… [more]
A real breath of fresh air from a surprising source.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
More as this develops. Nobody knowledgeable is calling this for certain, but equally nobody looks forward to the effects of a strong El Nino. Capital Weather Gang: In a bulletin issued this morning, NOAA issued an El Niño Watch predicting… [more]
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 81
Table of Contents
Chapter 83
Chapter 82
Rescued, November 20, 2059
The next day, Jon was formally charged by the IEC. they called it ecological crimes against humanity. Suddenly everyone had something… [more]
I blogged about this in 2011 in a post called A warm river runs through it. There are a couple of large rivers that discharge into the Arctic Ocean, such as the Ob, Lena and Yenisei in Russia, and the… [more]
Link is here to listen in live or to get the archived version.UPDATE: good timing with this BBC article on a discussion of the carbon bubble in the UK.… [more]
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Konig Glacier is a land terminating glacier just north of the Neumayer Glacier, ending on an outwash plain in the Antarctic Bay (AB) on the northwest coast of South Georgia. In 1977 the glacier extended to within 300 m of… [more]
The story is sometimes told as a hopeful parable about the prospect for switching to renewables. We’re told that a rapid transition to cheaper, more available petroleum products quickly killed the Whaling Industry in the 1800s – a natural progression… [more]
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Maybe a wild card in explaining years of big ice loss in the arctic. Science Daily: A research team led by Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used satellite data to measure the surface temperature of… [more]
In some quarters extreme weather events and broken records are presented as evidence that the climate isn't changing. That's a bit difficult to do with Arctic sea ice, of course (although they try*), but record Antarctic sea ice numbers fully… [more]
Part 3 describes SQL injection, the text of the hack release, and the hacker’s activity leading up to the release.
Dennis Nedry: Haahaaa… I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from… [more]
My civil war predictions aren’t so hot, but let’s see how my war-war predictions turn out: I think Putin means to consolidate control in Crimea and not invade the other parts of eastern Ukraine. There are good political and strategic… [more]
The Royal Soc and NAS have produced Climate Change: Evidence & Causes. From the official doc we have: The atmosphere and oceans have warmed, accompanied by sea-level rise, a strong decline in Arctic sea ice, and other climate-related changes. EWW… [more]
Arctic sea ice being lost at a rate of five days per decade
Cause and effect
El Niño may return late this year
European support for climate change action ‘not dented by financial crash’
Extreme weather is ‘silver lining’ for… [more]
Imagine for a moment if Microsoft had 24 competitors around the world, each building their own version of Microsoft Word. Imagine further that every few years, they all agreed to run their software through the same set of very demanding… [more]
First: Congratulations to Elliott Rebello, winning his category in the Eleanor Roosevelt HS Science Fair. (The reason I single him out — he’s my intern. Be sure, though: the work he presented was his. And it was his presentation and… [more]
guest post by Vanessa Schweizer
This is my first post to Azimuth. It’s a companion to the one by Alaistair Jamieson-Lane. I’m an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada with the Centre for Knowledge Integration, or CKI.… [more]
The Wise Response group, set up a year ago to build public and political awareness of the need for a serious review of New Zealand’s future policy directions on climate change, economics and sustainability, has launched a petition to persuade… [more]
For the fourth time since 2008 the Defense Department finds that climate change will exacerbate tensions and conflict. In June 2008, the Department of Defense under then President George W. Bush published its 2008 National Defense Strategy. In this document… [more]
by Meghan Beamish
Trees are amazing, in so many ways. We know that they play an integral role in the carbon cycle, where they help regulate atmospheric CO2 levels. But we don’t really know all that much about how exactly… [more]
See if this doesn’t make your head spin. Dontkillsolar.com: Our Co-Chairman, Barry Goldwater Jr. “As a son of Arizona, I know we have no greater resource than the sun. Republicans want the freedom to make the best choice and the… [more]
WWJ CBS Detroit: THOMPSONVILLE (WWJ) – It’s been a crazy past few winters at Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa. Jim MacInnes, president and CEO of the Benzie County ski area, golf course and conference complex, said that this winter, there’s… [more]
Reader Bayesian Bouffant raised the question of whether we might be able to take some of the strength out of hurricanes, if not to really control them — by way of an article Massive offshore turbine arrays would help us… [more]
Climate change is fundamentally a risk management problem. Whether or not you agree with the 97 percent expert consensus on human-caused global warming, there is an undeniable risk that the consensus is correct and that we’re causing dangerously rapid climate… [more]
While copy-editing a paper, Eli was looking for the APS (American Physical Society) style manual, but fortunately Google knew better and delivered him to the APS style manual, but a different APS, and not for authors, but instructions to the… [more]
Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here.
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you… [more]
