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Global Warming Reverses Long-Term Cooling Trend, Is “Overwhelming” Arctic...

A recent study published in the September 4 issue of Science magazine is yet another indicator that the Arctic is in crisis. A team of scientists found that temperatures in the Earth’s vast...

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The Copenhagen Diagnosis

Hot off the press is a new global climate change synthesis report by some of the world’s leading scientists. The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science is a review of...

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Weekly gRound-up: 12/12/09

The 2000s Decade the Warmest in Memory The World Meteorlogical Organization has announced that the first decade of the 2000s was warmer than the previous (1990-1999), which was warmer than the decade...

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2009 Tied for 2nd Warmest Year on Record, According to NASA

Recent analysis by scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), shows 2009 to be tied for the 2nd warmest year in the instrumental record. The warmest year on record was 2005, and...

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Visualizing Climate Change at the Ventura Boardwalk

Do You Know How Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Will Impact YOU? As a surfer, I often think about how my local surf spots—as well as the world’s most famous surf breaks—may change completely in the...

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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third Lowest Minimum in Satellite Record

Daily Arctic sea ice extent on September 10, 2010 was 4.76 million square kilometers (1.84 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1979 to 2000 median extent for that day. (Source NSIDC)...

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Book Review: A World Without Ice

Three million years ago, during the mid-Pliocene epoch, sea levels were 100 feet higher than they are today.  During this period, there was no ice in the Northern Hemisphere, no sea ice in the Arctic...

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Book Review: Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris

What does “nature” mean? What is it supposed to look like? And what is the future of nature and biodiversity conservation? These are questions that Emma Marris tries to answer in her excellent book...

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Chasing Ice: A haunting visual record of the climate catastrophe

Glacial. This word is often used to describe an incredibly slow process. It is ironic then, I think, that glaciers and polar ice caps melting at such an incredible rate are providing the most visible...

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