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Sea Ice Recovering Quickly, Overall Better than 2007
Skeptics Global Warming | October 10th 2008 by skeptics
As always, Anthony Watts has provided excellent scientific details around climate change. In this post, Watts explores the recovering sea ice with a graph that shows how 2007 was worse than 2008 and that this year has the potential to be recovering read more
Arctic Sea Ice Volume Reaches Record Low
Global Warming is Real | October 9th 2008 by Tom Schueneman
Arctic sea ice extent (or area covered) reached its seasonal low this year on September 14th, hitting its second lowest level since satellite data collection began thirty years ago, not quite reaching the record low of last year. (...) read more
Now Global Warming Causes Penguin Decline
Skeptics Global Warming | October 9th 2008 by skeptics
Having the face of global warming be represented by soft and cuddly polar bears isn’t good enough. Penguins have been added to the list as endangered birds whose population - from one-half to three-quarters - face decline or extinction due to read more
Methane Champagne: Arctic Lakes Begin to Bubble
Inventio | October 8th 2008 by Richard
Science Update:Most people who are at least vaguely familiar with global climate change are used to hearing about the evils of greenhouse gases, the most infamous of which is carbon dioxide. However, CO2 may soon lose its title as greenhouse gas gian read more
Ice, ice baby... going, going, gone
The Green Ogre | October 4th 2008
The yellow rubber ducky in your bathtub can be more useful than you think. NASA scientists are using ducks like this to track the movement (read recession) of glaciers in Greenland and Canada.Duck out of water?Thumbing through some old articles, I've read more
Interesting Ship of The Week: Nathaniel B. Palmer
gCaptain's Maritime Expert's Blog | October 3rd 2008 by John
National Geographic also brings us this week’s Interesting Ship of The Week. They tell us: >> NAME: The Palmer is named for a U.S. seal hunter who sailed along the west coast of Antarctica in 1820 looking for seal rookeries. Many beli read more
ZapRoot: Putin Shoots a Tiger
Climate Of Our Future | October 2nd 2008
On this week’s episode: Putin puts his KGB training into good use? The Arctic is melting into an island. Alt. Autos is back: Smart Car news and an electric Pinto made for racing. read more
Russia staking claim on acrctic resources
Light Links | October 1st 2008 by David G
'Russia must stake its claim to a slice of the Arctic's vast resources, the secretary of Russia's Security Council said on Friday at an unprecedented session of the council held on a desolate Arctic island. Russia, the world's second biggest oil exp read more
Hearing tests for polar bears
Kitty Mowmow's Animal Expo | September 30th 2008 by MJ Schindler
Scientists in California are testing the hearing of polar bears to try to find out whether the noises associated with melting Arctic ice could affect their ability to survive. In the wild, polar bears live in one of the quietest places on Earth. For read more
Methane Escaping in Artic
Shining Light in Dark Corners | September 30th 2008 by Dave Marco
Image via WikipediaAlterNet The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independen read more
GRACE Acquires Accurate Picture of Greenland Ice Loss
Planetsave | September 30th 2008 by Lucille Chi
Over the past few years we have sadly had to watch the Arctic ice concentrations drop significantly. Focus has been primarily centered on the Arctic Circle, but Greenland is also suffering from the increased global temperature. And now, thanks to read more
Greenland: world’s (second) largest island
disassociated.com | September 28th 2008 by John Lampard
I was deep scanning my web stats the other day, and noticed someone from Greenland had visited disassociated recently. It’s one place I don’t see appearing on the country of origin reports too often, so the entry stood out. It started me read more
Answer the call of the wild
A Luxury Travel Blog | September 26th 2008
Heed the call of the wild and experience America’s last frontier. The sheer grandeur of Alaskan vistas will ignite your imagination. Cruise through sparkling fjords or journey inland and catch a glimpse of wild brown bears fishing for giant sal read more
As the Arctic melts polar bears are resorting to cannibalism
Green Blog | September 26th 2008 by noone123
Besides changing the climate and environment for people around the world the loss of Arctic sea ice is destroying the habitats for polar bears. Recently we reported about polar bears swimming to Iceland trying to find food and land. And now scientist read more
Methane Gas: The Great Escape
'Somerset' Bob's Place | September 24th 2008 by Bob Kingsley
It’s been talked about for years, and now it’s really happening — methane, a global warming gas far more deadly than carbon dioxide, is escaping from the Arctic seabed in vast quantities, adding to the atmospheric burden. What effec read more
The methane time bomb
Frog Blog | September 23rd 2008
Scientists have recently documented the ticking of the biggest climate change time bomb of them all - methane frozen for millennia beginning to melt in the Arctic. Indeed, the tipping point that the IPCC fears the most may already have been reached. read more
Palin Says Polar Bears are Secure. Science Says They’re Eating…
Planetsave | September 23rd 2008 by Lucille Chi
Sarah Palin has said many times that the polar bear habitat is safe, and there’s no need to classify them as a “threatened” species. Yet today comes word that as the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are finding less and less foo read more
Scientists Discover New Global Warming Threat: ‘Methane Time Bo…
Sustainablog | September 23rd 2008
Scientists have today warned that global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions of tons of methane escape from the arctic seabed. According to preliminary findings, as the Arctic region gets warmer massive deposits of the greenhouse gas - 20 ti read more
NASA: Arctic sea ice reaches second-lowest level on record
Green Blog | September 22nd 2008 by noone123
A new preliminary report from NASA confirms our worries. The sea ice at the Arctic is disappearing. NASA reports that the Arctic sea ice has reached a second all-time low “since the dawn of the satellite era”. Previous record low for Sep read more
The Wild Side of Life of Sarah Palin
The Everything Sarah Palin Blog Gift | September 21st 2008 by Carol Forsloff
Salmon, Polar Bears and Wolves Are Scared of Her: Should We Be Too?Sarah Palin has been involved for some time with some pretty unique characters. They don’t always hang out in exactly the same place all the time, but they have one thing in common read more
Is global warming driving industrialists and environmentalists cr…
Ubiquitense | September 20th 2008 by ubiquitense
A few days ago, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Colorado, released pictures and data on the receding ice-line of the Arctic sea ice. According to the report, the extent of the sea ice reduced to 4.52 million square kilometers, which, even in l read more
Is Man Alone To Blame For The Collapse Of The Arctic?
aboutMyPlanet.com | September 19th 2008 by Bart Dabek
In just 12 months the Arctic is showing an increased level of meltdown. An upswing by 10% over last year. And this decrease in mass is the highest in recent history. Just what are the attributed causes of such a rapid shrinkage - Is it just the weath read more
Paddle to the Arctic - Book Review
BiblioHistoria | September 19th 2008 by BiblioHistoria
Paddle to the Arcticby Don StarkellMcClelland and Stewart (M&S)1995Interview with Don StarkellReview of Paddle to the ArcticBiography of Don StarkellFrom 1980 through 1982 Don Starkell and his son Dana (from Manitoba) paddled to the Amazon. Don wrote read more
Polar bear faux pas gets rubber dodo for Palin
The Green Ogre | September 18th 2008
Sarah Palin, whom we love to hate for at least two things - Republican and pro-hunting - has now been condemned by our loosely united fraternity of eco-enthusiasts as a 'global warming denier.'Cute.Arizona's Centre for Biological Diversity has awarde read more
Russian President Threatens Arctic Annexation
Life through the eyes the observer | September 18th 2008 by Will
MOSCOW — Russia’s long-term development and its competitiveness in global markets depends on developing Arctic resources, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday, demanding that Russia mark its Arctic territory so it can claim a large share read more
Interesting Ship of The Week - USCGC Healy
gCaptain's Maritime Expert's Blog | September 18th 2008 by John
In keeping with the arctic theme, this weeks Interesting Ship is the United States Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20). The ship is a research icebreaker that was first put into commission on November 10, 1999. Healy provides more than 4,200 squar read more
RUSSIAN ECONOMY ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE: MEANWHILE, RUSSIA MOVES TO…
THE BIG FEED | September 18th 2008 by THE BIG FEED
The Russian economy appears on the brink of collapse.Russia's two leading stock markets suspended trading on Wednesday as stocks continued to fall sharply amid global market turmoil.Trading was halted on the dollar-denominated RTS on the orders of a read more
Arctic Ice In A "Death Spiral"
Are We Overheating? | September 17th 2008 by 1greenthumb
Well we didn't manage to beat last years record thaw in the Arctic, but this years melt was the second worst on record in the Arctic. A disturbing trend has been forming over the past few decades and it looks like things are only going to get worse. read more
UK GOVERNMENT IN BROWN STUFF AS ECONOMY FLUSHES AWAY
Caledonian Comment | September 17th 2008 by Caledonian Jim
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s grip on his Cabinet (above) weakened yesterday amid claims of dissent at a recent meeting of ministers. A senior Cabinet member has revealed that the special pre-Labour Party Conference session was ‘excr read more
Arctic Ice Melt: 2008 Just Misses The Boat
'Somerset' Bob's Place | September 17th 2008 by Bob Kingsley
Having recently passed the period of maximum retreat, the Arctic sea ice melt this year just missed beating last year’s record — but there’s little to celebrate. On Tuesday 16th September 2008, BBC News reported that according to th read more
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