Arctic

warming — If you keep you finger on the Global Warming pulse then you will be familiar with the observations of record warmth in the Arctic during the winter of 2016. Research by NOAA has now confirmed that this was not a natural event, a black swan, and would not have been […]

Record Warmth in Arctic not possible without Global Warming

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science study and tagged 2016 Arctic NOAA warming on May 15, 2018 by Dave

sea ice — The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) tracks what is going on in the Arctic and issues regular updates. While they do of course provide datasets, they also present a very digestible regular insight into what is going on. The latest update is that the Arctic Sea Ice maximum […]

Arctic Sea Ice update

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news and tagged Arctic sea ice on March 29, 2018 by Dave

winter storms — A new study published within Nature Communications on 13th March shows that there appears to be a robust relationship between a warming Arctic and more severe winter weather further south. Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States Weather is variable and that […]

Will a Warming Arctic lead to more winter storms?

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment science study and tagged severe warming Weather winter winter storms on March 15, 2018 by Dave

arctic sea ice extent - 6th March 2018 — The National Snow and Ice Data Centre have issued their early March update for Arctic sea ice news. The content is not exactly a surprise. Below I’ve laid out some of the details. Highlights Temperatures over the Arctic have been unseasonably high and have been approaching melting point – in […]

#Arctic Sea Ice update

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment news science and tagged Arctic National Snow and Ice data center NSIDC sea ice on March 8, 2018 by Dave

arctic spring — There is a new study that examines 86 years worth of events that are tracked to mark the start of spring in the higher latitudes. The term used to describe the study of seasonal changes is Phenology. This is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and […]

Arctic spring is starting a lot earlier than a decade ago

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change news science and tagged arctic spring on March 6, 2018 by Dave

arctic — Words such as “Agast” or “stunned” don’t perhaps fully capture it, yet nevertheless we are in the midst of something quite unusual in the Arctic. Via Zack Labe, a researcher at the University of California at Irvine, and others, we have a series of tweets and graphs that illustrate just […]

Scientists Aghast by Off-the-Charts Arctic Temperatures, Record-Low Sea Ice

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment news science and tagged Arctic sea ice on February 28, 2018 by Dave