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.
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/
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...
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...
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...