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20 July 2010
North of 60 Again- Greetings from Greenland!
Well I have made it back to Greenland and the Arctic. Seven months and 8 days ago I was at the South Pole. This morning I wake up 60 miles on the cold side of the Arctic Circle. If the weather holds, and that is iffy, the NY 109th Air Guard will land us on a ski equipped LC130 at NEEM around 11am. I will then be just around 700 …
15 July 2010
NOAA: First 6 Months of 2010- Hottest On Record.
NOAA/NCDC released a whole slew of rather grim climate news today. It’s important to remember that besides the sun and increasing greenhouse gases there is a lot of built in variability in the climate system. It’s only been in the last couple of decades that the greenhouse warming has risen out of the noise created by weather. That said, even with El Nino gone and the sun coming out of …
6 July 2010
On Thin Ice That's Getting Thinner
I was looking for a post on something other than climate science this time, but the news is too big to pass up. The NSIDC today posted another update of the melting Arctic sea ice. The June ice coverage was the lowest on record and the melt rate highest recorded. It is looking very possible that a new record low in Arctic ice cover may be on the way for …
4 June 2010
As The Oil Slick Spreads, The Ice Keeps Melting and The Temperature Keeps Rising
Yes, they are most definitely related. I have been very busy reading lately. Books and papers. A presentation on the science underway in Antarctica is half finished, but I keep finding new things I just have to read right away. (I’m presenting at the AMS broadcast conference in Miami in three weeks.) There are some very interesting graphs and images I have stumbled onto and since the desktop folder (thankfully …
22 March 2010
NASA & NOAA- Despite what you heard, it's still getting warmer.
I spent the weekend reading a new paper that is about to be published by 4 of NASA’s top climate researchers. If you follow climate research closely, then it is no surprise. The planet continues to warm and no, it has not stopped. Hansen et.al point out that this recent warming occurs at a time when the sun has been very quiet and in a phase that should be causing …
4 February 2010
The weather question of the month- and the correct answer.
It’s been a cold and very snowy winter in the Eastern USA and in Western Europe. Very likely the worst in 30 years. All that snow and cold has resulted in a very common question to every meteorologist I know and that certainly includes me. Same for every person involved in climate change research too. WHAT HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?? First of all most people in the climate and weather …
26 November 2009
Who Do you Believe: Thieves or Peer Review?
Note: The images in this post are not related to it. They are from a new update on Climate Science published jointly by a large group of climate experts. It’s based on the most recent published papers and is an unofficial, but peer reviewed update of the last IPCC report. I think they match well with the subject of this post. Hopefully they will make the point I’m trying to …
29 October 2009
Why The Vanishing Polar Ice Cap Will Impact You
The folks at the National Snow and Ice Data Center have released some new data on the polar ice as we head into late autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The ice pack is retreating at a rate of about 11.2% per decade, and Dr. Mark Serezze, the director of the NSIDC says that we are just a few decades away from a mostly ice free August in the Arctic Ocean. …
18 October 2009
An Amazing Escape! (One Lucky Penguin!)
My two favourite animals are inhabitants of opposite poles. Ursus Maritimas. Polar Bears. They will eat you if you’re not careful, but they are truly majestic creatures. When I travelled through the High Arctic in August 2007, I saw three. The best was the second encounter on an ice flow in North Baffin Bay. It was spitting snow and quite cold, but sitting in our Zodiac, we were oblivious to …
15 October 2009
September Temperatures Second Warmest On Record
The global temperatures for September are out today from the National Climate Data Center in Ashville NC. The trend of very warm temps. world wide continues. The Summer of 2009 will go down as one of the warmest on the instrument record and on the proxy record going back over a thousand years. With the growing El Nino adding more heat to that being trapped by the record high levels …