South Pole Warming Three Times the Global Average

6 år ago

Nature Climate Change, June 29. Surface air temperatures at the South Pole over the past 30 years, as measured at…

East Antarctic Ice Sheet Vulnerable to Melting Within Paris 2°C Goal

6 år ago

Nature, July 22 Large sections of the massive Wilkes Basin ice sheet of East Antarctica, holding 3-4 meters of SLR collapsed…

Climate Sensitivity to CO2 Emissions: More Accurate and Higher Level

6 år ago

AGU, July 21, 2020 Earth's global “climate sensitivity” to CO2 emissions remains a fundamental question in predicting the future climate. …

Global Methane Emissions Reach ‘Record High’ Levels

6 år ago

Global Methane Budget, 2000-2017 (2020), July 15, 2020. A new consensus update to global methane emissions reveals that atmospheric methane…

World Temperatures Projected to Reach 1.5°C by 2024

6 år ago

Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, WMO, July 9, 2020. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds…

Burning the High Arctic: 2020 Spring and Summer Fire Season in Sakha Republic. A Precursor of Fire Seasons to Come?

6 år ago

2020 has been an exceptionally hot year for the Arctic, especially in High Arctic Russia. Beginning in January, an extended…

Climate Analogs & Cryosphere

7 år ago

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

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

7 år ago

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

May 2017

9 år ago

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

January 2017

10 år ago

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

November 2015

11 år ago

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

September 2015

11 år ago

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

August 2015

11 år ago

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

July 2015

11 år ago

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

May 2015

11 år ago

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