The Disaffected Lib: The White House Ponders an Ice-Free Arctic Ocean

By The Mound of Sound, on May 3, 2013, at 9:51 am

The domestic and international security implications of an ice free Arctic ocean will be briefed at the White House this week.

The meeting is bringing together Nasa’s acting chief scientist, Gale Allen, the director of the US National Science Foundation, Cora Marett, as well as representatives from the US Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.  Senior scientists advising the US government at the meeting include 10 Arctic specialists, including marine scientist Prof Carlos Duarte, director of the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia.

In early April, Duarte warned that the Arctic summer sea ice was melting (Read more…)

 
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350 or bust: Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Visible From Space

By Christine, on February 25, 2013, at 10:43 am

Holy sh*t – if this video doesn’t alarm the heck out of you, you don’t have a pulse! New findings on the state of the Arctic sea ice, resulting from a collaboration between many international agencies, confirm new data collected from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite spanning 2010 to 2012, and data from NASA’s [...]

 
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350 or bust: Climate Emergency: Arctic Sea Ice Bombshell

By Christine, on February 18, 2013, at 6:45 am

* As Joe Romm at ThinkProgress points out, this should be the story of the week/year/decade: Now the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s primary agency for funding and managing environmental sciences research, has made it official. In a Wednesday press release, they report: Arctic sea ice volume has declined by 36 per cent in [...]

 
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