Climate & Climate Change

We've been told that Greenland is thinning at the margins,and the glaciers are retreating, but while all this is happening the icecaps are now apparently thickening. This is according to a new article in Science as reported by ABC … [Read more...] about Greenland Getting Taller

In his new book the 'The Weather Makers' (Text Publishing, Melbourne, $32.95) Professor Tim Flannery suggests that the medieval warm period was unique to Europe with "a survey of global temperature records (from ice-cores, tree-rings and lake … [Read more...] about Tim Flannery on Hockey Sticks

The US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works continues to hear testimonials on climate change and related issues. Earlier this week Lord Nigel Lawson from Britian's House of Lords told the Americans what he thought: "I am grateful for … [Read more...] about Close Down the IPCC

While planet earth has warmed only 0.6C on average over the last 150 or so years, warming in the artic has been more significant. Clifford Kauss et al have written in the New York Times about new opportunities in the Artic as the ice melts: It … [Read more...] about New Port to Open as Ice Melts

There is a new long article at BBC Online about variations in warming, melting, and thickening across Antartica and Arctica. There is also info on glaciers, I was impressed by this graph: The graph was accompanied by the following text: "The … [Read more...] about Glaciers Melting

I received a note from a reader of this web-log who was a bit cranky with my post advertising the current review by Warwick Hughes, see post and thread here. The really relevant piece of information from the long email was perhaps this graph: View … [Read more...] about The Ocean is Also Warming