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Climate Analogs & Cryosphere

PNAS December 10: Models Show Abrupt Transition of Climate to Past Geologic States Main Messages: Already in 2030, Earth’s climate…

7 years ago

How the Polar Vortex Works (and Why Record Cold is Yes, Part of Global Warming)

Note:  ICCI often gets questions about the unusually cold weather that occasionally has begun to hit sub-Arctic Europe and North…

7 years ago

May 2017

May IceBlog: Anything But Pro Forma Note:  Statements at Arctic Council ministerial meetings are often very pro-forma.  The May 11…

9 years ago

January 2017

ICCI’s hallmark is a deep belief in the power of solid science to convince policymakers and decision makers to change…

9 years ago

November 2015

“These people know nothing!  Nothing!” This outburst from an eminent Antarctic researcher was as unexpected for me as it was…

10 years ago

September 2015

Fire in the Fields – “Burning” the Cryosphere “Open burning” refers to a common agricultural practice found today throughout the…

11 years ago

August 2015

What Happens in the Arctic…. As world leaders, including President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and a number of…

11 years ago

July 2015

Explaining Climate:  What Rockström Said! Sometimes in the struggle to convey the seriousness and, above all, the immediacy of the…

11 years ago

May 2015

The “Road to Paris” Goes through Cryosphere With the Bonn UNFCCC climate negotiations taking place next month, the phrase “road…

11 years ago

March 2015

Summer Forecast: Hot, with Frequent Fires Sometimes ICCI gets the question of how open field and forest burning, seeming quite…

11 years ago

February 2015

Conservation Agriculture: Conserving Cryosphere “The soil does not belong to me, it belongs to every living thing on this planet.” …

11 years ago

December 2014

The below remarks are taken from the opening remarks by ICCI Director and Founder Pam Pearson at ICCI’s December 11…

11 years ago

November 2014

Lima:  Just a Start The annual Framework Climate Convention negotiations will take place from December 1-12 in Lima, Peru.  ICCI…

11 years ago

September 2014

Track Zero:  Making Two (Cryosphere: Five!) Degrees Real In Copenhagen in 2009, one of the few victories was a commitment…

12 years ago

June 2014

Open Burning and the Arctic: An Issue of Resilience By Gail Stevenson, Russia Program Manager Open burning in northern Eurasia…

12 years ago