Arctic

arctic tundra — Rapidly receding glaciers within the Canadian Arctic have created an opportunity for scientists to gather samples of the ancient delicate vegetation that has been preserved under the ice. Once exposed they soon start to get destroyed by the wind and water, so before that happened there exists a narrow window […]

Arctic Summer warmest ever in over 100,000 years

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science study and tagged Arctic tundra on January 30, 2019 by Dave

greenland ice melt — Shocking new insights reveals that the Greenland ice mass is rapidly melting. The rate of now four times faster than it was in 2003. This will lead to a faster sea level rise. Let’s jump into the actual study and see what it actually tells us. New Study: Accelerating changes […]

Greenland Ice Mass melt is Accelerating

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science study and tagged greenland ice Melt study on January 25, 2019 by Dave

Permafrost melting in Svalbard, Norway. — There is a Global collaboration that monitors Permafrost. You can find their website here. This is basically a network of boreholes that is managed by the international scientific community. Who exactly runs it all? Their GTN-P database is hosted at the Arctic Portal in Akureyri, Iceland. It is managed in close cooperation with the Alfred Wegener […]

Permafrost Study reveals a warming trend

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change study and tagged Arctic Permafrost study on January 24, 2019 by Dave

ice — There is a new study. Titled “Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971–2017” and published 21st Dec, it lays out the data for the amount of ice loss and sea level rise since 1971. The publication of this study motivated one of the authors to tweet as follows … […]

Trillions of tonnes of Ice Loss and Sea level

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science study and tagged Arctic ice ice loss sea level on December 26, 2018 by Dave

arctic — Starting in 2006 an annual Arctic report card has been published by NOAA. The 2018 Report card is now available, and it is not exactly good news. The more appropriate word is perhaps “dire”. The 2018 Report Card Here is a brief summary of it all … Highlights Surface air […]

Arctic Report Card: It’s worse than you think

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment news science and tagged 2018 Arctic NOAA report card on December 13, 2018 by Dave

arctic sea ice — Now that the annual melt season is over, how did 2018 pan out in the Arctic? We have very precise Satellite measurements that go back over almost 40 years so this degree of precision gives us some quite specific trends. If you are familiar with the ongoing climate change trend […]

Arctic Update – The 2018 Melt Season is Over

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science and tagged Arctic sea ice on October 10, 2018 by Dave