Category Archives: sea ice

UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic

Posted on October 6, 2009 by

Things get stranger and stranger with the United Nations’ climate change science compendium published two weeks back. First, it was learned that the graph indicating temperature for the past 1,000 years had been taken from Wikipedia, where it had been … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to a Legal Scholar Specializing in Climate Change

Posted on June 17, 2009 by

The following is my response to an open letter published by the legal scholar Dan Farber on his blog. Farber’s letter says that global warming “denialists” are about as right as Neville Chamberlain was returning from Munich in 1938 and … Continue reading →

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Arctic Cooling Has Begun

Posted on May 14, 2009 by

What follows is the first guest post on Talking About The Weather. I chose Peter Taylor‘s short essay on the Arctic out of respect for Peter’s research, his calm during intense debates, and the focus he brings to the issues. As … Continue reading →

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Cold comfort: Catlin team awaits re-supply

Posted on April 28, 2009 by

With adverse weather, including at least one blizzard, preventing its scheduled re-supply, the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition on the Arctic Ocean sea ice has slashed food rations by more than 80 percent. On normal sledging days, the team members consume … Continue reading →

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