Near-Term Human Extinction

Global Warming and Feedbacks Is there a mechanism that could make humanity go extinct in the not-too-distant future, i.e. within a handful o...

Arctic Death Spiral - Evolution to July 2013

Image by Andy Lee Robinson, from  http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral.png The video below is a visualization of the Arctic Death ...

Further feedbacks of sea ice decline in the Arctic

Arctic sea ice currently acts as a shield, preventing methane from entering the atmosphere, concludes a study by researchers from two Chines...

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...

Accelerated Warming in the Arctic

Why is warming in the Arctic accelerating and where will this lead to? Where does the extra heat go?  Global warming is causing Earth to hea...

Diagram of Doom

Above diagram was part of a poster displayed at the 2011 AGU meeting in San Francisco by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG). It was...

Opening the Doorways to Doom

Snow and ice protect the Arctic from overheating in summer. Firstly the brightness of the snow and ice cover ensures that most sunlight gets...