James Hansen slams Keystone XL Canada-U.S. Pipeline: “Exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts” | ThinkProgress.
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Arctic sea ice volume: The death spiral continues « Climate Progress
Arctic sea ice volume: The death spiral continues « Climate Progress In November, Rear Admiral David Titley, the Oceanographer of the Navy, testified that “the volume of ice as of last September has never been lower…in the last several thousand years.”Titley, who is also the Director of Navy’s Task Force Climate Change, said he has told the Chief of Naval Operations that “we expect to see four weeks of basically ice free conditions in...
NASA: April tied for 4th hottest on record globally « Climate Progress
NASA: April tied for 4th hottest on record globally « Climate Progress. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has released its monthly global temperature data. It reveals that there is no April in the temperature record before 2005 that was warmer than April 2011. And that’s in spite of the fact that we are still in the tail end of a major La Niña and just coming out of “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a...
Extreme warming forces climate scientists to add hot pink to temperature map « Climate Progress
Extreme warming forces climate scientists to add hot pink to temperature map « Climate Progress.
The Climate Show #7: The Cryosphere Special
I’ve been watching the Climate Show since episode one and it just keeps getting better. This show is produced in New Zealand and they usually have a guest climatologist on the show. This week it’s Professor Jason Box, a prominent Greenland expert. Well worth watching: http://hot-topic.co.nz/the-climate-show-7-box-and-boxsters-the-cryosphere-special/
Latest GRACE data: record ice loss in 2010
The GRACE satellites continue to measure the change in gravity around the Greenland ice sheet. Here is the latest data showing the record amount of ice loss Greenland experienced in the 2010 summer. H/T to Tenney Naumer from Climate Change: The Next Generation and Dr John Wahr at the University of Colorado who analysed the GRACE data and granted permission to reproduce it here. Figure 1: Greenland ice mass anomaly – deviation from the...
Gas Leaks on the Path to a Post-Fossil Future – NYTimes.com
ProPublica has published a good update on concerns that existing practices for extracting and piping natural gas, through leakage, substantially cut into the fuel’s substantial greenhouse-gas advantage over coal. A prime source for the story, Robert W. Howarth of Cornell University, is right in his draft paper on such emissions that complete life-cycle analysis is sorely needed to clarify the overall costs and benefits of gas drilling — particularly the fast-spreading extraction method known...
Canada sees staggering mildness as planet’s high-presure record is “obliterated” « Climate Progress
The disinformers and many in the media love to focus on where it is cold in the winter. It has been cool where many people live. Brr! Unfortunately for homo sapiens, it’s been staggeringly warm where the ice is. I’ll do a post on Greenland shortly, but the NSF-sponsored researchers at UCAR/NCAR have posted some staggering data on just how warm it has been in northern Canada: To put this picture into even sharper...
Carbon fiasco | Editorial
Carbon fiasco | Editorial | Squamish Chief, Squamish, BC. Last week a retired Saskatchewan farming couple touched off a flurry of government and oil-and-gas industry denials by releasing a consultant’s report that they said links a series of events on their farm over several years to leakage from a large industrial underground carbon capture and storage facility. Cameron and Jane Kerr say the report by geochemical expert Paul LaFleur links the deaths of animals,...
Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW
Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW. It may be too late to stop the seas from eventually rising and flooding Earth’s coastlines. Even if humans manage to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions completely by the year 2100, ocean warming set in motion by the end of this millennium could trigger the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and flood New York City, Hong Kong, and other coastal cities, a new study suggests....