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- Climate change is killing reindeer in the Arctic Sat, 15 Dec 18, 7:30amA new Arctic Report Card from the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that the wild reindeer and caribou populations have plummeted by more than half over the last two decades. According...
- The Arctic: we don’t know as much about environmental change in the far north as we’d like to think Thu, 6 Dec 18, 9:00amFrom The Conversation December 4, 2018 9.58am EST The first International Polar Year, held over 1882–1883, was an important event for science. The year was the brainchild of Austrian explorer Karl Weyprecht who, after a...
- The Guardian view on climate change: too much, too soon | Editorial Thu, 6 Dec 18, 5:28amWe are losing the war against climate change; the use of fossil fuels is driving higher carbon emissions when they need to be coming downOutside of the desperate and the deluded, everyone knows that the world is in the early...
- US oil firm's bid to drill for oil in Arctic hits snag: a lack of sea ice Thu, 15 Nov 18, 5:00pmHilcorp’s plan to extract 70,000 barrels a day follows Trump’s reversal of an Obama-era ban on fossil fuel activity in the region
- UAH Arctic Temperature Profile Sun, 11 Nov 18, 2:10amGuest Essay by Kip Hansen Last week Dr. Roy Spencer treated us to the latest UAH Global Temperature Update. Overall, the ”global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2018 was +0.22 deg....
- Study: ‘Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 years is not due to humans alone.’ Wed, 7 Nov 18, 5:30amModels show natural swings in the Earth’s climate contribute to Arctic sea ice loss Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 years is not due to humans alone...
- Study suggests air pollution is a factor in Arctic ice melt Mon, 22 Oct 18, 7:39amFrom the “CO2 isn’t the master climate control knob after all” department and the AGU. Air pollution reduces Arctic cloud lifetime, study suggests WASHINGTON — Fossil fuel emissions from Asia and Europe...
- A close look at the arctic sea ice models that have launched the careers of a thousand polar bears Sat, 13 Oct 18, 4:19amThis is Expertise the UN can bank on In the GWPF 2018 Lecture, Richard Lindzen pointed out the genius of Arctic climate models First, for something to be evidence, it must have been unambiguously predicted...
- Arctic sea ice model spaghetti — Expertise the UN can bank on Sat, 13 Oct 18, 4:19amA close look at the arctic sea ice models that have launched the careers of a thousand polar bears Int he GWPF 2018 Lecture, Richard Lindzen pointed out the genius of Arctic climate models First, for something to be evidence,...
- Study: dust guided by meandering jet stream has big impact on Arctic melt Thu, 11 Oct 18, 7:47amPolar jet circulation changes bring Sahara dust to Arctic, increasing temperatures, melting ice Summary points A new atmospheric mechanism by which dust travels from the Sahara Desert across the eastern side of the North...
- Latest climate complaint: Arctic plants are getting “too tall” Fri, 28 Sep 18, 2:19amPlants in the Arctic are growing taller because of climate change, according to research from a global scientific collaboration. While the region is usually thought of as a vast, desolate landscape of ice, it is in fact home...
- Analysis suggests Arctic sea ice is more stable than thought Tue, 25 Sep 18, 3:32amYesterday, I pointed out that despite predictions of an “ice-free summer” in the Arctic by now, Arctic sea ice continues to defy such predictions and ended the 2018 melt season higher that the lowest years of...
- Arctic sea ice melt has turned the corner for 2018 Mon, 24 Sep 18, 3:41amGreg Goodman writes in to WUWT tips and notes: Arctic sea ice minimum – this years 19/20th Sept at 4.594 million sq/km Source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ Not surprising that...
- Study shows we can save the Arctic with ship pollution? Wed, 19 Sep 18, 2:43amShipping tracks, cloud patterns over the ocean. | Photo NASA. Ships leave a trail of sulfur dioxide in the sky behind them which seeds clouds and causes cooling. At the same time, black soot drops out on the arctic ice,...
- Arctic Sea Ice not cooperating with doomsday climate predictions Mon, 10 Sep 18, 11:48pmThis year’s Arctic sea ice minimum is just a few days away, but it isn’t going to be a new record low, in fact, it’s likely to come in within 2 standard deviations By Harry Wilkinson Arctic sea ice is...