Warming oceans
On Wednesday on The World Today there was an item about the ocean surface warming. There were a few talking points covered in the segment. First was the warming of the Arctic where we are told that: the predictions are [...]
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, [...]
More polar bears are going hungry – but is that the biggest concern?
The usual expert advice is that: two-thirds of the world’s polar bears — including all of those in Alaska and most of Canada’s western Arctic — will be gone by 2050. The only ones remaining, the panel warned, will be [...]
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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