Heatwave to hit Greenland

A heatwave with temperature anomalies exceeding 36°F (20°C) is expected to hit Greenland between August 16 and 22, 2014, as illustrated by t...

Extreme weather strikes around the globe - update

As the weather gets more extreme, disaster strikes around the globe. The Guardian reports three people killed as storms continue to batter s...

Extreme weather strikes around the globe

  Editorial note: this post has meanwhile been updated as Extreme weather strikes around the globe update . As the weather gets more extreme...

Temperature Rise

Surface Temperature Rise How much have temperatures risen over the past 100 years or so? In the image below, Peter Carter points at the aero...

Dark Snow Project - Research into soot on Greenland

Fossil fuel combustion creates carbon emissions that increase atmospheric thickness, warming climate. The occurrence of wildfire increases w...

Albedo changes in the Arctic

How global warming and feedbacks are causing huge albedo changes in the Arctic. Snow cover decline Decline of the snow cover on land in the ...

Arctic anomalies linked to extreme weather

Surface temperature anomalies of 20 degrees Celsius are not uncommon in the Arctic these days. The image below shows surface temperature ano...

Big changes in Arctic within years

Above interactive graphic illustrates the decline of the annual sea ice minimum volume in the Arctic over the years. What trend can best be ...

Albedo change in the Arctic threatens to cause runaway global warming

Mark Flanner et al. calculated in 2011 that snow and ice on the Northern Hemisphere had a combined cooling effect of 3.3 Watts per square me...

Glaciers cracking in the presence of carbon dioxide

Northern Hemisphere snow and ice map , October 14, 2012 (credit: NSIDC, NOAA) Snow covers more than 33% of lands north of the equator from N...

The certain catastrophic effects of allowing the Arctic snow summer sea ice to melt away

Image by Peter Carter of the  Climate Emergency Institute

Warming in the Arctic

Note: this is a 3.4 MB animation that may take some time to fully load.  Loss of snow and ice can change local temperatures significantly, e...