How much will temperatures rise?

If we take the NASA Annual Mean Land-Ocean Temperatures and draw a projection into the future, temperatures will quickly be 3 degrees Celsiu...

Arctic Ice Breaks Up in Beaufort Sea

The NOAA image below gives an update on the temperature anomaly over Greenland, as earlier discussed in the post including  Huge patches of ...

Accelerated Arctic Warming

The more northern we look, the more Earth is warming, as shown by the NASA image below. global temperature anomalies averaged from 2008 thr...

NSIDC calls record 2012 low

This  NASA satellite image shows how the Arctic sea ice extent, on Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 ...

Noctilucent clouds indicate more methane in upper atmosphere

Noctilucent clouds [credit: NASA] The inner solar system is littered with meteoroids of all shapes and sizes — from asteroid-sized chunks of...

Greenland is melting at incredible rate

The combination-image below shows how much the ice on Greenland melted between July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). On July 8, about 40% of th...

High methane levels in Arctic - April 2012

Below are two images produced with NASA GES DISC Giovanni data system, showing methane levels for early April 2012. The top image shows wher...