Another Heatwave Hits Arctic

As parts of Canada, Greenland and Russia are hit by -40 degrees temperatures (anomalies at the bottom end of the scale), parts of the Arctic...

Ocean Temperature Rise Continues

Ocean Temperature Rise Of all the excess heat that results from people's emissions, 93.4% goes into oceans . Accordingly, the temperatur...

Very warm waters are invading the Arctic Ocean

Global mean methane levels as high as 1836 parts per billion were recorded at several altitudes on August 24, 2014. Meanwhile, the Arctic Oc...

March 2014 Arctic Sea Ice Volume 2nd lowest on Record

The March 2014 Arctic sea ice volume, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Scien...

Earthquakes in the Arctic Ocean

Earthquakes in the Arctic Ocean indications of immiment catastrophic methane eruptions? 1. Methane over Greenland The image below shows high...

Feedbacks in the Arctic

This is more a climate report than a weather report; yet, the extreme weather that did hit the U.K. recently and that is forecast to hit lar...

Colorado flooding, what does the IPCC say?

Flooding in Colorado has caused at least five death. As of 14 September, more than 500 were unaccounted for. Nearly 19,000 homes are damage...

President Obama, here's a climate plan!

President Obama, now is the time to act on climate change! Climate change won't wait . There are encouraging signs indicating that a su...

How to avert an intensifying food crisis

As extreme weather intensifies, the food crisis intensifies. Storms and floods do damage to crops and cause erosion of fertile topsoil, in t...

Storm enters Arctic region

Tropical Storm Leslie hit Newfoundland on September 11, 2012. Leslie was discussed in the earlier post by Paul Beckwith . The NOAA image be...