Daily Archives: May 22, 2012

Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade. Now they are working with a new computer model ….  that produces a … Continue reading →

December 15, 2009 There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled … Continue reading →

Because climate change in the Arctic region is occurring faster and to a greater extent than anywhere else, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free for a short period of time as early as the summer of 2015, according to the … Continue reading →

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008 Polar ice cap melting away in 2008 ? The latest salvo comes courtesy of Xinhua, which reports that Olav Orheim, the head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, is placing his money on this summer. … Continue reading →

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There is a lot more sea ice this month around Alaska and Siberia than there was in May, 1989. N_daily_extent.png (420×500) N_198905_extn.png (420×500) NASA expert Jay Zwally said that the Arctic may be ice free in about 14 weeks.

This planetary energy imbalance is itself now sufficient to melt ice corresponding to one meter of sea level rise per decade Scientific reticence and sea level rise – IOPscience He must be thinking about the 400,000 nuclear bombs of added … Continue reading →

The Earth has been facing imminent doom since Earth day, 1970. The door to rescue the planet is always about to close. May 21, 2012 While global negotiations have slowed since the high-intensity period over the last three years (in … Continue reading →

French President Francois Hollande skipped Mr. Obama’s remarks at Monday’s session, arriving to take his seat only after Mr. Obama had finished speaking. Mr. Hollande campaigned on a pledge to remove France’s 3,400 troops from Afghanistan by the end of … Continue reading →