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Wilkins on the move

By Brian on May 5, 2009

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, [...]

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Wilkins ice bridge, Wilkins ice shelf | 8 Responses

Figure 1: Andrill team drilling site in Antarctica

The West Antarctic ice sheet really can collapse and regrow

By Brian on April 23, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Andrill project, Antarctica, Sea level rise, west antarctic ice sheet | 11 Responses

Wilkins ice bridge shatters

By Brian on April 14, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Greenland, pine island glacier, Sea level rise, Wilkins ice bridge, Wilkins ice shelf | 13 Responses

Science, denialism or unconscionable fraud?

By Brian on January 14, 2009

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, [...]

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Arctic, arctic ice, Arctic melting, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate science | 37 Responses

Arctic update II

By Brian on November 6, 2008

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.

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Arctic, arctic ice, Arctic melting, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate science, methane, methane clathrate | 15 Responses

Greenland glacier gates

Sea level rise: how much by 2100?

By Brian on September 17, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Greenland, Sea level rise | 25 Responses

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