Showing posts from September, 2015
Rapidly growing 'Seal' over Arctic Ocean Arctic sea ice extent and especially concentration are now growing rapidly, as illustrated by the Naval Research Lab animation on the right. This mean…
It looks like sea ice has passed its minimum extent for the year 2015, as illustrated by the image below. There are some differences between the various websites measuring extent, such as to whether …
Across the oceans, the August 2015 globally-averaged sea surface temperature was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average—the highest temperature for any month in the 1880–2015 record. NOAA ana…
The image below shows that Arctic sea ice had reached a level of 4.45 million square kilometers on September 16, 2015 (end of dark blue line at center of image). NSIDC has meanwhile called the 2015 m…
Will it be 3.27°C warmer by the year 2030? In December 2015, world delegates will descend on Paris to ensure that global warming will not cross the guardrail of 2°C above pre-industrial levels . [ cl…
The image below, from Arctic-roos.org , shows Arctic sea ice extent up to September 6, 2015. Editorial note: The dramatic drop in sea ice extent shown on the image below turns out to be an error. The…
Presentation by Jennifer Hynes on runaway feedbacks in the Arctic and the resulting threat of near-term human extinction. At youtube.com/watch?t=309&v=L19JBY0kNmo There are links to the transcri…
by David Spratt Spanish version There is an El Niño in full swing which helps push average global temperatures higher, and records are being broken, but just how hot is it? For several years, we have…