Sister Website
www.climateapplications.com
Recent Comments
tom0mason on The climate change movement is… Bloke down the pub on The climate change movement is… Verity Jones on The climate change movement is… gallopingcamel on The climate change movement is… wickedwenchfan on The climate change movement is… vuurklip on The climate change movement is… barry on The error of our ways barry on The error of our ways climanrecon on The error of our ways Verity Jones on The error of our ways
Tag Archives: Ice
Pantomime on ice
How appropriate that it is pantomime season. This year’s sell-out production of “Climate Change Academics on Ice” may have been marketed under #SpritOfMawson, but Professor Chris Turney, climate scientist, certainly knew the story he wanted to tell via media circus.
Posted in CAGW, News, Weather
Tagged Akademik Shokalskiy, Antarctica, Ice, Mawson, Professor Chris Turney, Ship of Fools
4 Comments
Ash-on-Ice Earth Art
Layers of volcanic ash on the eroding edges of the icecap of an Icelandic volcano. Does it remind you of something by any chance? Well…?
Estimating sea ice decline due to natural variability
From environmentaresearchweb.org, a new paper examines the contribution of natural cycles the AMO, AO and AMOC to the reduction in Arctic sea ice. A Japanese and UK collaboration used five CMIP3 coupled general circulation models with pre-industrial forcing to investigate … Continue reading
Arctic ice caused drilling delays
Alaska Dispatch reports that Shell ships are finally starting to leave Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands for drilling sites in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. While most of us are aware that ice in the Bering Sea was way … Continue reading
Titanic 100
The one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic can hardly have escaped anyone’s notice. I did watch one excellent documentary the other evening. From that and reading around the subject I’ve discovered a lot I didn’t know or … Continue reading
Life in the Clouds
Yesterday I found myself dreaming of clouds at 30,000ft while stuck on the ground waiting for a badly delayed flight. Discover Magazine (April 2012) held an article on new ideas about clouds and how they develop rainfall. A research group … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Nature, Weather
Tagged CERN, Clouds, Ice, ice-nucleation, Pseudomonas syringae, Thunderstorm Hypothesis
6 Comments
Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates
Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t. While there is great hand wringing over coastal ice loss in Greenland and the West Antarctic Peninsula, East Antarctica has more than eight times the ice … Continue reading
Twenty-eight days trapped in ice… so far
Update – It’s over. The rescue was completed Sunday when the Sodruzhestvo reached clear waters and resumed fishing. A representative from the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency said the rescue operation was unprecedented:
Ice build up in Sea of Okhotsk
Russian News Agency TASS reports that bad weather is delaying the rescue by icebreakers of ships stuck in Sakhalin Bay in the Sea of Okhotsk. Near zero visibility and winds of 55mph are slowing the approach of the Krasin to … Continue reading
NAO is the winter of our discontent…
Temperatures in the UK fell rapidly again on Thursday. I watched the thermometer drop from about 7°C mid-morning to -1°C by 4pm and another 5-6 inches of global warming accumulated by late evening. More snow also fell on Friday. Blame … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles, Weather
Tagged Arctic, Climate, Ice, NAO, Natural Cycle, Temperatures
7 Comments
Digging in the Clay 