Purvis Glacier is on the norteastern coast of the island, terminating on land near Possession Bay. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has mapped many aspects of the island including glacier front changes. Their mapping indicated below shows that the Purvis… [more]
Part 2 of my conversation this week with Dr. Jason Box, who has been in Svalbard, Norway, high in the Arctic, as Northern Hemispere winter winds down and melt season is staging its return. Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
If you ask me, the guy is better than ever. In answer to his question, no worries. China has the answer, below. Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
Another portion of my wide ranging conversation with Dr. Richard “Ricky” Rood, of the University of Michigan, this time focusing on the difference between the Arctic Oscillation, vs the North Atlantic Oscillation.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
SkS Highlights
If you like the Sunday funnies, you’ll love, Cartoon: the climate contrarian guide to managing risk, cartoon by John Cook and text by Dana and John Cook. Needless to say, it generated the most comments of the articles posted on… [more]
RenewEconomy: German energy giant RWE has taken a massive loss of €2.8 billion – it’s first loss in 60 years – after admitting it got its strategy wrong, and should have focused more on renewable and distributed energy rather than… [more]
This morning’s NASA Earth Observatory image of the day shows the impact of last week’s heavy rain in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula on the sea around. The light blue colours show sediment washed off the land. If you visit the… [more]
Here’s the article that convinced me to try it after shaking off the Candy Crush demon.I’ve now spent about 30 minutes a day for the past month learning languages. Okay, playing/learning languages, but it beats passively listening to Spanish radio.… [more]
Dr. Jason Box, Chief Scientist of the Dark Snow Project, and a researcher formerly of the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State, now with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland – has spent the last week in Svalbard, a… [more]
Dr. Richard Rood is a Veteran NASA Atmospheric Scientist, currently teaching at the University of Michigan’s College of Atmopheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences. Dr. Rood also posts regularly on Dr. Jeff Master’s Weather Underground. I sat down with Dr. Rood… [more]
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It’s been said more than once that co2 pollution is a moral issue like slavery for our time – and its pretty much the same people defending the powerful and entrenched interests today, that defended them in that not so… [more]
Differing effects in different countries means that a warmer, more populated, world could meet demand for wheat used to make flour and other food – but with important implications for greenhouse gas emissions and fairness.… [more]
28 US Senators will stay up all night to talk about climate change
20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
As temperatures climb, so does malaria
Climate change felt in deep waters of Antarctica
Climate change hampers fight against… [more]
Cosma Shalizi just got tenure at Carnegie Mellon. He writesIt’s also hard for me to feel triumph because, by the time I get tenure, I will have been at CMU for nine years and change. Doing anything for that long… [more]
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.UPDATE 2: archive link here.… [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]
