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Arctic Ice Volume: Definitely Not Good News

May 12, 2011 by Lou Grinzo
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Update/correction: I got the units wrong on the graph in the initial version of this post. They’re km3, and I’ve made corrections below. Thanks to Mark Shapiro for catching that. It’s that time of year again, when those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are immersed in the wonders of Spring and a young man’s fancy turns to… wondering... [read more]

Where on Earth is it unusually warm? Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, which is full of rotten ice

January 6, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Map of air temperature anomalies for December 2009, at roughly 3,000 feet above surface, Areas in orange and red are warm anomalies, areas in blue and purple are cool. It’s cold here and in northern Eurasia, but it’s been positively toasty ar0und the Arctic circle — thanks to an extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, as the... [read more]

Right Cause, Wrong Reasons

October 4, 2007 by Robin Carey
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My mother, who died last year, loved the beautiful farmland and rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia where she spent most of her life. But since the area so close to Washington, DC is threatened with large-scale development, she worried that her beloved landscapes would disappear. Just in the nick of time along came... [read more]