Monthly Archives: June 2011

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png Arctic ice area declined from 1988 to about 2006, and since then has been flat, corresponding to the shift in the PDO. The amount of multi-year ice reported by NSIDC shows a similar pattern. http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/040511.html The death spiral seems … Continue reading →

Loss of beaches worldwide is certainly not the worst of the impacts humans will face from unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions (see “JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on pace for 1 foot sea level rise by … Continue reading →

While the media, government and scientists continue to report that Greenland is melting, people are starving because of too much ice, snow and cold. Svend Erik Hendriksen from Greenland sent this over. http://translate.google.com/ http://translate.google.com/ h/t to Marc Morano

http://snowpack.water-data.com/uppercolorado/index.php

I’m in CA this week, but the river is continuing to rise and public access to the river has been closed off to the city. I’m happy to be in safe East LA. Since we left home there has been a drive … Continue reading →

And most of the loss occurred during the winter, not the summer. [youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuHBPjElHI] http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2007.html This loss occurred during  period dominated by El Nino    

The green killer: Scores of protected golden eagles dying after colliding with wind turbines California’s attempts to switch to green energy have inadvertently put the survival of the state’s golden eagles at risk. Scores of the protected birds have been … Continue reading →

Last summer I spent a week in San Jose and was amazed by the very cool weather. This year I am in East LA and exactly the same story. Sunny, breezy and high temperatures in the 60s. Almost too cool … Continue reading →

It is going to be slow this week as I am off to some meetings in California. My son may be contributing some different style blogging while we are out there!