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The left image shows Stroeve’s analysis of Arctic sea ice coverage through 2008. (2009 was a bit greater than 2008, but still 20% below average. (The last five years have seen the five lowest average ice extent years on record.) The image on the right is the IPCC 2007 model summary of Arctic sea ice…
(From the Guardian – one of Great Britain’s two national newspapers, founded in 1821) President Bush is decimating America’s environmental law. Two million acres of land in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado will be opened to development of oil shales, the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Coal-fired power plants will no longer be required to install pollution…
The planet is supposed to be reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, they have risen by 2.3 for the period 2000 to 2006. The UNFCCC cautions that emissions may be even worse now, noting that the statistics in the study are already nearly three years old. "UNFCCC expert review teams need two years to verify…
Geophysical Research Letters had a busy and scary Halloween edition. As discussed below on October 2, satellite analysis of 2008 Arctic sea ice thickness has revealed the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice ever recorded. Smedsrud, et. al., Recent and future changes of the Arctic sea-ice cover has a new model based on the latest…
Methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing again after 9 years of no increase. Decreasing agricultural methane releases over the last decade have resulted in flat methane concentrations in the atmosphere. But it is suspected that increasing industrialization in Asia and recent melting of permafrost releasing frozen methane has caused these emissions to begin rising…
The opening sentence of the report: "Scientific research on climate change and its impacts published since the deadline for the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is revealing that global warming is accelerating, at times far beyond IPCC 2007 forecasts." The mega report is a compilation of 37 publications and…
Arctic Sea ice had the second lowest recorded extents this season, but alarmingly, volume was the lowest ever recorded. The lowest volume record was set because much of the remaining ice in the Arctic is only first year ice. Normally the majority of ice at the top of the globe is multi-year ice, which is…
Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the premier US climate modeling agency, Testified before a British court on Friday that no new coal fired power plants should be constructed that do not capture and store carbon dioxide, and that all non carbon dioxide capturing power plants should be closed…
The environmental protesters that painted Gordon (i.e. Prime minister) on the coal fired power plant smokestack in England were cleared of charges of damage to the power plant. The ruling declares that the protesters were "legally justified because they were trying to prevent climate change causing greater damage to property around the world." This is…
John McCain’s choice for Vice President, 2-year governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, previous experience was as Mayor of Wasilla, AK, population 8,000. Palin is for offshore drilling, for drilling in ANWR and believes that Arctic warming is natural. She has sued the Secretary of the Interior to reverse the listing of the polar bear as…
Five of the last ice shelves along the Arctic coast of Ellesmere island in northern Canada have shrunk by 23% this summer. Scientists say that the impact of warm temperatures this year is staggering. Ten times more ice was lost this year than was forecasted. The high temperature reached 67.5 degrees, 21.5 degrees warmer than…
August 24, 2008 Arctic Sea Ice: The trend is ominous. The albedo feedback is strong (Ice reflects 90% of the sun’s heat, water absorbs 90% – water absorbs nine times more heat than ice). Last year’s huge record allowed only first year sea ice to form last winter. This year’s ice is now rapidly melting….
