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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

Arctic Report Card — For the past 12 years now NOAA has been published an annual Arctic Report card and the 2017 issue is now available on-line. The report card exists because something quite extraordinary has been happening in the Arctic and 2017 has not seen any pause in that. Highlights Arctic shows no […]

2017 Arctic Report card published by NOAA

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment news science and tagged 2017 Arctic NOAA report card on December 19, 2017 by Dave

Roughly about the middle of each month, NOAA publishes their Global Climate report for the previous month and so NOAA has now published their assessment for April 2017. In Summary … Temperature The combined global average temperature over the land and ocean surfaces for April 2017 was 0.90°C (1.62°F) above […]

NOAA: Global Climate Report – April 2017

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged Global Climate Report NOAA on May 20, 2017 by Dave

The ice in Greenland is melting and that spells out trouble for humans. This is because there is enough ice in Greenland alone to raise sea level by roughly six meters. So how much is melting? If you surf on over to NOAA then you find that they clearly spell out […]

Greenland updates

This entry was posted in Climate Change science and tagged greenland Jakobshavn Isbræ NOAA on April 17, 2017 by Dave

You are perhaps aware the Mr T is proposing to deploy a rather hefty axe to the funding for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and radically slash its budget. If you did not know that then your starting point can be an article within The Washington Post (3rd March) entitled “White House […]

What are the implications of the NOAA funding cuts?

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news news politics science society and tagged funding NOAA on March 10, 2017 by Dave

Bryan Thomas, who works as station chief at NOAA’s Point Barrow, Alaska, observatory is deeply troubled. As he sits within his office there in Alaska, he can look North out over the Arctic ocean in the middle of February. It should all be sea ice, but it is not … “I could […]

Unprecedented #Arctic weather has scientists on edge

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change science and tagged Arctic climate Mark Serreze NOAA NSIDC Richard Thoman on February 21, 2017 by Dave