Arctic ice graph crosses the line
They say that the state of the Arctic sea ice cover is the canary in the mine of terms of climate change. Hence it is worth keeping an eye on. Now the graph plotting the extent of the Arctic sea [...]
Hot and cold – perturbations from on high and perhaps missing heat below
Figure 1: January-March mean surface temperature anomaly While we know that a short-term variation doesn’t make a long-term trend it is interesting, in view of the bitterly cold winter in some parts, that the global mean the surface temperatures have [...]
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.
Arctic update
Back on July 18 Andrew Bolt said that we should “forget media scares about a melting North Pole”. As with almost everything he said in that article he was wrong. This graph from the National Snow and Ice Data Center [...]




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