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Double Dip: Arctic Ice Resumes Late Season Melt
Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported: Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10 September. The minimum ice extent was the third-lowest in the satellite...
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Surprise Late-Season Melt: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Falls Below 2008 Level
The melting of the Arctic sea ice literally crossed another line yesterday, as the area of Arctic sea ice fell below the level of two years ago: The collapse of the Arctic sea this year is only...
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Arctic Ice Reaches September Minimum Volume: Only 4000 Cubic Kilometers Left,...
Earlier this week, the University of Washington’s Polar Science Center released its latest Arctic sea ice measurements to make them current as of September 15, 2010. The Polar Science Center uses a...
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Earth Version Two Discovered
There’s excellent news today for people who worry about the end of the world. Another world has been found! Orbiting around the star Gliese 581 is a planet about 3 or 4 times the size of Earth, in the...
View ArticleNASA Confirms It: Globally, September 2010 was one of the top 5 Hottest
It may have been locally hot or cool where you live in the month of September, but globally speaking it was another scorcher. This week, NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science released its latest...
View ArticleMayewski: Climate can change in 1-2 years… and end Civilization
In a one-hour lecture delivered earlier this year, Professor Paul Mayewski of the Climate Change Institute explains how multiple methods of historical climate reconstruction reveal instances of abrupt...
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NSIDC Starts Graphing Greenland Ice Melt
For years, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been sharing daily updates of the area (“extent”) of sea ice coverage in the Arctic ocean, charting current conditions in comparison to the...
View ArticleThe Twenty Coldest Years, The Twenty Hottest Years
The twenty hottest and the twenty coldest years in NASA’s global record of direct temperature readings from 1880-2013: The 20 Coldest Years 1. 1909 2. 1910 3. 1904 4. 1911 5. 1917 6. 1908 7. 1907 8....
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June 2014 was the 3rd warmest June on Record for Planet Earth
“What Global Warming?” — Investor’s Business Daily editorial, April 30 2014. What global warming? This global warming: NASA’s Goddard Institue for Space Studies has released updated temperature data to...
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What Global Warming? THIS Global Warming: World Just Had Warmest September on...
“What Global Warming?” This is the question that conservative media pundits continue to ask. By asking the question rhetorically, conservatives invite you to think of the cool days of autumn and to...
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While Vicky Hartzler Fiddles, the Globe Burns: October 2014 was Hottest on...
On November 2014, Republican member of Congress and global warming denier Vicky Hartzler noticed it was cold. This, she decided, was proof enough to ridicule the idea of global warming. So she took to...
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“What Global Warming?” asks North Country New York. This Global Warming,...
In a February 12 2015 letter to the editor of New York State’s North Country Now, an anonymous reader asks, “What Global Warming? Whatever happened to global warming? I feel short changed!” You see,...
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NOAA: Globally, the First Four Months of 2015 were the Hottest on Record
One town’s weather is not the same as global climate. It’s easy to lose track of the difference because as humans we pay more attention to what we see with our own eyes and pay less attention to what...
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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: Lower than Normal is the Norm
The National Snow and Ice Data Center has been tracking Arctic Ocean sea ice extent for many years, and yesterday released new data on the extent of Arctic sea ice, compared to the 1981-2000 average...
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NSIDC Update: Arctic Ocean Losing 4.75% of Ice per Decade
The value of well-funded science is that it produces sustained observations over long periods, not just when an issue is hot. I am appreciative of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, funded by...
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Is it Snowier than it Used to Be? The Answer Depends on When You Ask.
NOAA’s climate data, newly revamped in its presentation, is utterly fascinating to me. Today I’ve been looking at NOAA’s snow cover data, which is provided courtesy of Rutgers University’s Global Snow...
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Greenland Ice Melt Spikes Far Beyond Normal in April 2016
In scientific assessment of variation, a typical broad measurement of what’s normally expected is the range between 2 standard deviations above the mean and 2 standard deviations below the mean. In a...
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Gary Johnson Has Policies Just Like Trump’s On The Economy And Environment
Did you hear the news yesterday? Gary Johnson gained the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. Johnson is hoping to gather some of the votes of Republicans who don’t like Donald Trump, and...
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In 2017, Watch for the Cries of “Global Cooling!”
In the decade after 1998, deniers of global warming loved to use the phrases “no global warming since 1998” or “global cooling since 1998.” I’m not kidding: a search for the former phrase on a search...
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Greenland Ice Sheet: Melting Faster in 2016
While over land and sea the entire globe has been the hottest on record for every single month of this year so far (link | link | link | link | link), some localities have been feeling the warmth too,...
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