Arctic sea ice in context (video)
The great Peter Sinclair puts Arctic sea ice in context:
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This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices – great piece by the BBC’s Richard Black. Matt Ridley and the Holocene Optimum – Matt Ridley making elementary mistakes again, you’d think he has some sort of wider agenda. Oh, he has.…
This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security. US & UK Defense agree. – “I am struck by how similar UK and U.S. thinking is on the national security implications of climate change. Our defense departments agree that…
This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Scientists hash out the uncertainties of climate sensitivity – Here’s some great science journalism, climate sensitivity made fun (almost!). Methane bubbling out of Arctic Ocean – but is it new? Great piece by New Scientist on the…
This week’s climate links
Dive right in: RealClimate | IPCC errors: facts and spin Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb: Scientific American Richard Alley’s keynote at the 2009 AGU AGM – If you want a primer on the role of CO2 in the ancient…
This week’s climate links
Dive right in: PCC Adjudication on Ward vs. Booker – has to be read to be believed! Can you say ‘toothless’. What does openness in science mean? Potential problems with open access Climate deniers using FOI legisation as a filibuster……
Melting compost heaps and the permafrost precautionary principle
Thawing permafrost could inject enough carbon into the atmosphere to cook the planet. But nobody’s quite sure how fast it’s going to happen. Permafrost is a giant cold-storage compost heap, stuffed full of frozen carbon. Just like you chucked out…
July Arctic Sea Ice Outlook
The Arctic Sea Ice Outlook has just been updated for July. It”s based on a synthesis of 16 estimates which utilise a range of different projection methods. They note that there is “no indication that a return to historical levels…