Wilkins on the move
When we looked at the collapse of the Wilkins ice bridge the experts thought it could make the remaining ice unstable. My own expectation since we are heading into winter was that things would ice over for the period. Well, [...]
The West Antarctic ice sheet really can collapse and regrow
The Australian has carried its war on science another step, step 35 according to Deltoid. This time they have published an article Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking by Greg Roberts, plus another Change is a cold certainty. If you’ve [...]
Wilkins ice bridge shatters
It had been long expected. It happened on Sunday, 5 April 2009. Where is it, what happened and what significance does it have? The first is easy. The Wilkins ice shelf is between three islands off the west coast of [...]
Science, denialism or unconscionable fraud?
Recently I’ve seen and heard a number of stories saying that the winter sea ice levels in the Arctic are right back at 1979 levels, so what’s to worry? On the polar bears thread I expected this story to appear, [...]
Arctic update II
Since we last looked at the Arctic ice coverage the equinox has been passed, the sun has set and the sea is icing up again quite nicely considering the ice loss fell just short of the 2007 record.
Sea level rise: how much by 2100?
Al Gore talked about some scary stuff with respect to sea level rise, but didn’t in fact put a time limit on it. James Hansen has suggested that multimetre sea level rise by 2100 is highly probable. At least twice [...]
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