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Here is the latest graph of the Arctic sea ice extent as of yesterday, courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). As you can see, the current sea ice extent is getting awfully close to

Posted 1 day ago

A high resolution satellite image of Greenland. Researchers from the University of Bristol in England have determined that the only thing that can explain the transition from a mostly ice-free Greenla

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Posted 2 days ago

I saw this article a few days ago from the BBC. The article World heading towards cooler 2008 talks about how temperatures the first half of this have run about 0.1 degrees Celsius cooler than any

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Posted 3 days ago

I recently found this site which shows a very detailed satellite analysis of global sea surface temperatures. The sight also shows the sea surface temperature anomalies compared to the 1971-2000 base

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Posted 4 days ago

Research Tents on the Petermann Glacier. Image courtesy of NASA. Two of the largest floating glaciers in northern Greenland recently broke away as evidenced by satellite imagery. See this link to the

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Posted 5 days ago

Headline Earth's Katie Fehlinger discusses how a shift in the Bering Sea's system is impacting the fish and the fishing industry up there....

Posted 6 days ago

An icebreaker leaves behind a wake of broken sea ice. A 6-year study of Arctic sea ice confirms that there has been a massive shrinking and drastic thinning of the ice. Highly accurate data, which was

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Posted 1 week ago

Fay is one stubborn storm! I figure no time is better than this to have one of my open forums. I have been extremely busy over the past couple of days in dealing with tropical storm Fay down in Florid

Posted 1 week ago

Images courtesy of the University of Bremen, Germany. Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 20th, 2007 Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 19th, 2008, accounting for leap year. (Thanks to Anthony Watts, I wou

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Posted 1 week ago

Images courtesy of the University of Bremen, Germany. Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 20th, 2007 Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 19th, 2008, accounting for leap year. (Thanks to Anthony Watts, I wou

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