Topic: Cryosphere
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. // Susan Collins
Mertz Glacier
Feb 26, 2010
About half the length of the tongue broke off as iceberg B-9B touched the Mertz glacier. While moving north both icebergs may have an impact on ocean circulation and therefore weather pattern.
Australian Antarctic Division: Massive iceberg calves from the ...>>
Demolition
Feb 23, 2010
March 2000: Iceberg B15 - former part of the Ross Sea Shelf - started its counter-clock-wise journey around Antarctica. Earlier this month subpart B15-K, 54 km long and 5 km wide, collided with Ekstrom Ice Shelf. The german Neumayer Station located nearby reco ...>>
History
Nov 27, 2009
completely frozen again.
time machine to 1900@nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com
via Ehrensenf
Update: some replies urge not to mix up a cold winter with climate. This winter intensified by a negative phase of the arctic oscillation and a snow albedo feedback ...>>
Kilimanjaro
Nov 4, 2009
1938 Ernest Hemingway eternalised Africa's white peak with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". Now researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson estimate the thousands years old glaciers will disappear this century.
PNAS: Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro co ...>>
Jul 26, 2009
The 2009 Arctic melting gained momentum, it is now below 2008 and accelerates. A massive bloom of algae has set up Alaska's coast guard and Innuits. Nobody remembers that kind of occurrence in Chukchi Sea at any time.
Greenpeace expects the collapse o ...>>
Jul 5, 2009
100 Days of Melting
Currently the Arctic sea ice covers 9.5 million square kilometers an area which is between the extent of 2008 and 2007. So, given the relatively cold Arctic summer and far less multi-annual sea ice, how will it look like in late Septemb ...>>
Resources
May 13, 2009
Available from Natural Resources Canada is this detailed geological map of the Arctic. The map was completed in November 2008 as part of a two-year, seven-nation collaboration. Resources as minerals, gas and oil could be very often found in similar geologi ...>>
The Melting Starts
May 10, 2009
The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and feed ...>>
Prediction Market
Sep 3, 2008
Will the North Pole be ice free at any point in 2008?
All started with a question @ CNN
Join the prediction game, check out north pole webcams and follow Lewis Gordon Pugh while paddling with a kayak to the North Pole.
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Interactive Flash
Sep 1, 2008
Feeling the heat, missing snow, want to go skiing? Try out this interactive Antarctica simulation build with flash 3d.
via: Ehrensenf ...>>
Melting Arctic
Aug 26, 2008
The Arctic sea ice conditions are now very similar to last year. The maritime shortcuts through the Artic Sea are almost open or already open. The total extent two days before - the NSDIC reported yesterday - was 5.47 million square kilometers.
Buoys ind ...>>
Ban Ki-moon
Nov 15, 2007
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek visited Chile and Antarctica last week (8-11 November). As first Secretary-General he walked on the frozen continent and inspected Collins Glacier on King George's Island.
I am here tod ...>>
Winter Tourism
Report: Climate Change in the European Alps - Adapting Winter Tourism and Natural Hazards Management
Feb 3, 2007
Under present climate conditions, 609 out of the 666 (or 91%) Alpine ski areas in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland can be considered as naturally snow-reliable.
The remaining 9% are already operating under marginal conditions. The number ...>>
Ice Shelfs
Dec 31, 2006
Ice shelves are much thicker than sea based ice like the Arctic ice shield. The thickness of modern-day ice shelves ranges from about 100 to 1000 meters. They consist of former land based ice up to thousands years old floating on the oceans now but still conne ...>>
Alpine Sports
Dec 5, 2006
WMO reports cancelled sports events in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia and Switzerland caused by warm weather in these countries. With temperatures above 10°C and heavy rain even artificial snow is not an option.
Picture above shows the Alps last ...>>
Melting Glaciers
Nov 22, 2006
Briksdalsbreen Glacier3:19, uploaded by chrisleonard87
Glaciers melt faster than scientists can save their instruments.
BBC News feature broadcasted 21-11-06 ...>>
