Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Within Science a new paper has been published that lays out clear evidence of a rather dramatic structural change that is taking place within the Arctic Ocean. To be clear, this is not something that has suddenly happened, but rather has been on-going for the past couple of decades. What is new is a better understanding. … Read more
Carbon Brief has a nice video up in which Climate Scientists briefly answer a few key questions regarding the recent low’s of both the Arctic and also the Antarctic sea ice. Let’s first ask – Who are “Carbon Brief”? Their “About Us” page lays it all out … Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering … Read more
Victoria Herrmann, President and Managing Director of the Arctic Institute and a National Geographic explorer, has written a potentially important article … As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated … Read more
Towards the beginning of the month it looked as if we had indeed reached an astonishing new low ice extent record in the arctic, but it really was too early to make that cal then. Well the news is that the National Snow and Ice Data Centre have called it … Update 22nd March Arctic … Read more
February 2017 saw new records being established. Arctic sea ice extent for February 2017 averaged 14.28 million square kilometers (5.51 million square miles), the lowest February extent in the 38-year satellite record. This is 40,000 square kilometers (15,400 square miles) below February 2016, the previous lowest extent for the month, and 1.18 million square kilometers (455,600 square miles) … Read more
Bryan Thomas, who works as station chief at NOAA’s Point Barrow, Alaska, observatory is deeply troubled. As he sits within his office there in Alaska, he can look North out over the Arctic ocean in the middle of February. It should all be sea ice, but it is not … “I could see what’s known as water-skyoffsite link — … Read more