Oceanography
- On Sea Level Rise, The IPCC Is Right- And That's Good For Us
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Some people believe the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a small, unified body composed of the best scientists who make proclamations on lots of things. That isn't really true. The actual IPCC is a tiny UN group, around a dozen peop ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 15 2013 - 12:08pm
- Arctic 2013
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Arctic Ice 2013 ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 2 2013 - 11:57am
- 33.6 Million Years Ago Earth Got The Antarctic Polar Icecap- And A Plankton Food Web
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Before the Oligocene epoch some 33.6 million years ago, the Earth was a warm place with a tropical climate. In this region, plankton diversity was high until glaciation- the Antarctic continental ice cap- reduced the populations leaving only those capable ...
Article - News Staff - May 27 2013 - 1:30pm
- How Would Reductions In Arctic Sea Ice Influence Atmospheric Circulation?
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Reductions in Arctic sea ice levels may nfluence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within and beyond the Arctic, according to a simulation using 2007 ice conditions, the second lowest Arctic sea ice extent in the satellite era. Two 30-year simula ...
Article - News Staff - May 28 2013 - 12:00pm
- Jellyfish Blooms
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Jellyfish Blooms Newspapers are currently reporting a surge in jellyfish numbers in the Mediterranean. Along with the surge in jellyfish numbers, or bloom, is a surge in bad reporting about global warming. This is one occasion when I am on the side of t ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 5 2013 - 10:23am
- Glacier Changes In NE Greenland
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Glacier Changes in NE Greenland Substantial cracks in the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier ice tongue appear to be growing in extent and number. While not as spectacular as the 2010 calving of the Peterman Ice Island, it is more closely linked to global war ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 12 2013 - 2:42pm
- Around The Arctic June 2013
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Around The Arctic June 2013 The Arctic is currently primed for rapid and extensive ice loss, unless we see some very unusual weather conditions this Summer. The state of the ice can be seen in the following series of satellite images from NASA's Eart ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2013 - 12:02pm
- Petermann Glacier 2013
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Petermann Glacier 2013 If the feature arrowed in the image below is not a processing artifact, then Petermann Glacier is setting itself up for yet another major calving event. Further data is needed to support my suggestion that this is either a real fis ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2013 - 10:05pm
- German Records From 1920s As Evidence For Long-Term Ocean Warming
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Over past centuries, the crews of ships regularly measured some basic properties of the waters through which they sailed, such as temperature and salinity. Though their accuracy has to be questionable, these historical observations have proven to be impo ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 9:42pm
- The Case Of The Missing Heat In The Deep Ocean
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From 1975 on, the global surface ocean had shown a pronounced, though wavering, warming trend. Starting in 2004, however, that warming seemed to stall. Researchers measuring the Earth's total energy budget- the balance of sunlight streaming in compar ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:02pm
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