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SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 201256 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 days ago: The Arctic sea ice extent forecasting contest is on again.  As before I’ll allow readers to su … more →

Tags: Arctic, Sea Ice News, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, National Snow % Ice Data center, northern hemisphere, NSIDC, Polar ice packs, September

How Far Can A Polar Bear Swim?2 comments

Sandy Steinman wrote 1 week ago: The Environmental News Network reported on a study published in Zoology on how far can Polar Bears S … more →

Tags: animals, climate change, polar bear, Global Warming, Habitat Conservation

"...the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012"198 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 weeks ago: Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review tho … more →

Tags: Arctic, Arctic Ocean, jay zwally, Mark Serreze, NASA, national geographic society, National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC, Polar ice packs

Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island among climate change's victims

Alan Gregory wrote 2 weeks ago: Rising sea levels, a result of the melting of polar ice and the Greenland ice cap by the human-cause … more →

Tags: climate change, Army Corps of Engineers, Chesapeake Bay, Global Warming, greenhouse gas emissions, Arctic sea ice, greenhouse gases, greenland, rising sea levels

Antarctic ice shelf faces threat from warm waters

Intercultural Resources wrote 2 weeks ago: Using different calculations, Hellmer and colleagues Frank Kauker, Ralph Timmermann and Jurgen Deter … more →

Tags: Climate change, Weddell Sea, filchner-ronne ice shelf, Met Office, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Antarctica, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Amundsen Sea

Dutch Harbor Update | Snow Crab Extension Due to Record Breaking Ice Pack

JuneauTek wrote 2 weeks ago: For the first time ever, the snow crab fishery will be extended.  The grueling season is far from ov … more →

Tags: alaska fishing, Dutch Harbor, king crab, Market, Snow crab, Tanner Crab, alaska department of fish and game, Alaska Newspapers Inc., Bering Sea

Arctic Sea Ice could be gone by 2020...

Jack Payette wrote 2 weeks ago: Most climate scientists and oceanographers agree that the arctic sea ice could disappear as early as … more →

Tags: Blog, Global Warming, cliamte change, Arctic, NRDC, global melting

Rahmstorf: Is it OK to call him an "alarmist" now?1 comment

tommoriarty wrote 2 weeks ago: Some folks never give up.  In the following video Stefan Rahmstorf says… To me a tipping point … more →

Tags: Global Warming, Rahmstorf, Temperature, PNAS, Glaciers, climate change, ice, Arctic ice, sea-level rise

Last Image of Nares Strait from Europe's Environmental Satellite

Andreas Muenchow wrote 2 weeks ago: The European Space Agency announced today that one of its primary environmental satellites died. For … more →

Tags: Ice Island, greenland, ice island, Glaciers, Nares Strait, Arctic Ocean, satellites, radar

Climate: Seasonal Arctic ice cap meltdown begins

Bob Berwyn wrote 3 weeks ago:  Arctic sea ice starting melting quickly in late April Sea ice extent in Antarctica has been above a … more →

Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Climate and Weather, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Measurement of sea ice, Barents Sea, Bering Sea

Yet another error in NSIDC graphs?154 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 3 weeks ago: UPDATE: problem solved, see below. I wonder if NSIDC actually looks at their own output from day to … more →

Tags: Arctic, climate change, Mark Serreze, National Snow % Ice Data center, NSIDC, Polar ice packs, polar regions

Another sea ice record in the Bering Sea plus April sea ice summary52 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 3 weeks ago: Bering Sea Ice- image adapted from an NSIDC image National Weather Service, Anchorage Forecast Offic … more →

Tags: Arctic, Bering Sea, Environment, extreme weather, Global Warming, National Snow % Ice Data center, National Weather Service, Polar ice packs, united states

Icy Arctic Variations in Variability110 comments

Willis Eschenbach wrote 3 weeks ago: Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back, I noticed an oddity about the Hadley Centre’s Ha … more →

Tags: Arctic, external driver, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Marozke, Notz, Polar ice packs, variability

Jumping the shark: Climate change a national security threat94 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 3 weeks ago: Wow, this is thick. What next? Climate research becoming classified? Panetta: Climate change a natio … more →

Tags: government idiocy, Al Gore, Environmental Defense Fund, Global Warming, Leon Panetta, national security, United States Secretary of Defense, Washington D C

Beautiful Detailed Historic Arctic Sea Ice Maps, collected by DMI 1893-1961

Michaël V.B. wrote 3 weeks ago: Every now and then WUWT (http://wattsupwiththat.com/) has these gems of blogposts.  This one, posted … more →

Tags: allegedly apparent, map, Data, Maps, climate change, area, extent, NSIDC, dmi

Bad News, Good News2 comments

hughcurtler wrote 3 weeks ago: As one who tries to keep up with what’s going on in the world, especially the world of humans … more →

Tags: Hugh's blogs, Environment, Congress, México, Big Oil, wind turbines, Nuclear Reactors, southern company, London

Cache of historical Arctic sea ice maps discovered164 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 3 weeks ago: Arctic Sea ice data collected by DMI 1893-1961 Guest post by Frank Lansner I came across a number of … more →

Tags: Arctic, August, Baffin Island, greenland, North Pole, Polar ice packs, Svalbard

Animation showing changes in sea-ice thickness

magzal wrote 4 weeks ago: The original article is posted at European Space Agency website. After nearly a year and a half of o … more →

Tags: Environmental News

Sea's of Ice, it's a beautiful world indeed!

scienceasweknowit wrote 4 weeks ago: When thinking about the polar regions of our planet, it seems that they are relatively similar. They … more →

Tags: Iceberg and Glaciers, Glaciers, Cold Side of the Earth, Nature, Science, Antarctica, Frozen Planet, Arctic, Beautiful World


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