..leaders of indigenous communities, “have been pushing for those restrictions to be lifted, arguing that the North needs the economic development that would come with offshore exploration and licensing.”
Thus, claims by alarmists attributing rising CO2 to any loss of Arctic sea ice and so-called “Arctic amplification” is not supported by the evidence.
NOTE: The HAARP facility was closed some years ago, and now it is operational again. Back then I was happy it was closed because it (mostly) ended the silly conspiracy…
Guest Post by Javier Vinós Arctic sea ice is lowest during the month of September, and its average extent during this month is a useful metric for measuring Arctic sea…
...prior assumptions about the region's advancing spring season have now been effectively erased.
As I sit in my window seat on the ice-class vessel Ultramarine, surrounded by Arctic mountains and sheets of ice, I’m struck by the uselessness of humans in the ecosystem...
From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford Arctic sea ice is beginning to melt and the end of spring is drawing near. Mating season is over for polar bears as is the gorging…
If we are experiencing a global warming crisis as intense as many suggest, shouldn't we be seeing a decrease in such significant ice formations?
Moving goalposts
[It’s been a while since we’ve had a good “It’s Worse Than We Thought” story~cr] UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG Climate models used by the UN’s IPCC and others to project climate…
From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford The Polar Wildlife Report is a peer reviewed summary of the most recent information on polar animals, relative to historical records, based on a review of…
“Improved drainage results in a drier landscape over a decadal timescale, and the process then becomes self-limiting,” said Scott Painter, who leads the Watershed Systems Modeling group at ORNL.
Axios probably would have been better served had they taken a more skeptical approach towards computer modelling, relying on publicly available (and easily accessible) sea level and ice melt data instead.
has confirmed that the high temperatures in the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas -especially affected by global warming- are promoting the settlement in these waters of species that previously lived in warmer areas located further...
Imagine you’re hiking in the Arctic and you see a creature in the distance. It’s coming towards you. It looks really big. It gets closer. And bigger. Closer. Bigger. Geez, the thing must be 13 feet tall and weigh six...
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