The Cryosat-2 mission is delivering on its promise to make high-precision radar measurements of polar ice.
The first data from the European spacecraft has been presented at an Earth observation meeting in Norway.
The information clearly shows Cryosat has the required sensitivity to assess the state of Antarctic and Arctic ice
Filed under Antarctic Ice Shelves, Arctic climate change, Arctic sea ice, Future Climate Projections, Mitigation, Polar Ice, Recent Posts, Technological Solutions, Tipping Points, Visible Effects · Tagged with Antarctic, Arctic sea ice, climate change, CryoSat, CryoSat 2, First-year Ice, Ross Ice Shelf, Sea ice extent
Last winter’s big snowfall and cold temperatures in the eastern United States and Europe were likely caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice. Arctic climatologist David Barber says that not only does the loss of ice affect conditions locally but “what happens in the Arctic dictates some of what happens in the mid-latitudes…This huge mass of warmer air over the Arctic in the late fall not only generates more wind and snow locally, several studies have now documented the impacts on global weather patterns.
Filed under Arctic sea ice, Future Climate Projections, Melting Permafrost, Mitigation, Polar Ice, Recent Posts, Tipping Points, Visible Effects · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, Colder winters, David Barber, Mark Serreze, Oslo Science conference, Rotten sea ice, Warming of the Arctic
The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Abrupt Climate Shifts, Arctic climate change, Arctic sea ice, Climate Change Psychology, Climate Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Dangerous Climate Change, El Nino, Global Climatic Disruption, James Hansen, Mitigation, Polar Ice, Political/Legal Action, Recent Posts, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, Global surface temperature change, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen, Jim Hansen, Real Climate, Temperature Anomaly
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Abrupt Climate Shifts, Arctic climate change, Arctic sea ice, Copenhagen, Dangerous Climate Change, Glacial Melt, Global Climatic Disruption, IPCC, Melting Permafrost, Mitigation, Ocean temperature, Polar Ice, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, Copenhagen, Glaciers, Greenland Ice Sheet, Permafrost Melting
Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations, provides new evidence that the Arctic would be cooling if not for greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Abrupt Climate Shifts, Arctic sea ice, Dangerous Climate Change, Glacial Melt, Global Climatic Disruption, Interactive Tools/Graphs, IPCC, James Hansen, Melting Permafrost, Mitigation, Polar Ice, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, Copenhagen, Glaciers, Greenland Ice Sheet, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Permafrost Melting
The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Abrupt Climate Shifts, Arctic sea ice, Copenhagen, Dangerous Climate Change, El Nino, Glacial Melt, IPCC, Polar Ice, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, El Nino, Ocean surface temperature, Ocean temperature, Sea ice extent
The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57 percent from late 2004 to 2008. That is losing more volume of ice than water in Lake Michigan. Thin seasonal ice has replaced thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Arctic sea ice, Dangerous Climate Change, El Nino, Glacial Melt, Interactive Tools/Graphs, IPCC, Melting Permafrost, Polar Ice, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, global warming, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Shrinking sea ice, Thick older ice, Thin seasonal ice
Arctic glacier poised to split up July 15, 2009 Sidney Morning Herald Environment An ice island weighing many millions of tonnes is poised to break off the northern hemisphere’s largest glacier, say independent scientists travelling aboard a Greenpeace ship. Altogether, 5 billion tonnes of ice is set to crumble from the Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s [...]
Filed under Arctic sea ice, Dangerous Climate Change, Flooding, Glacial Melt, Polar Ice, Tipping Points · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, climate change, Glaciers, Greenland, Ice tongue, Petermann glacier, Sea level rise
What are not clearly understood are the impacts of feedbacks that will drive global warming faster and farther. Permafrost melting, for instance, will release vast amounts of methane, a powerful GHG, while the warming of the ocean will reduce its capacity to absorb GHGs.
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Abrupt Climate Shifts, Arctic sea ice, Dangerous Climate Change, Future Climate, Glacial Melt, IPCC, Melting Permafrost, Polar Ice, Political/Legal Action, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with 2C warming, Arctic sea ice, climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, IPCC, Pen Hadow, Permafrost Melting, Powerful GHG
The Arctic Sea Ice, which has been a permanent feature for at least 100,000 years, is now so thin that almost all of it will disappear in about a decade. It will become seasonal, forming only during the winter.
Filed under Arctic sea ice, Dangerous Climate Change, IPCC, Polar Ice, Tipping Points, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Arctic sea ice, Catlin Arctic Survey, climate change, First-year Ice, Pen Hadow, Peter Wadhams
Next Page »
