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By Adam, on May 15, 2013, at 9:29 am Wikileaks has been a great source of information that governments and corporations wanted to deny or keep secret. Now Greenpeace has modelled a site, Arctic Truth, for whistleblowers who work in the world of arctic drilling for oil. As climate change turns the frozen north into accessible waters oil companies want to move in and further the reach of their harmful industry. Even people in the industry are realizing how dangerous it is to drill closer to the north pole than ever before and have started to speak up.
The website is intended to shield the identities of whistleblowers (Read more…)
By neath, on February 11, 2013, at 4:10 pm All is well as we approach the PostArctic era. Here are some images originally shot at the Arctic Circle in Norway by Canadian artist Sarah Anne Johnson.
Taken from here.
Sarah Anne Johnson: Alien Arctics
By Guest Blog, on February 5, 2013, at 9:35 pm “The agreement asks so little of Canada, Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the US, that it is effectively useless” by Greenpeace | Feb.4, 2013: WASHINGTON – On the eve of the Arctic Council environment minister’s meeting, a leaked copy of the Council’s much-heralded oil spill response agreement reveals deeply inadequate measures READ MORE
By Christine, on December 20, 2012, at 7:36 am The U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its updated Arctic Report card earlier this week. Like many other recent reports about the condition of the north, the canary in climate change coal mine, the news is sobering; new records have been set for snow extent, sea ice extent and ice sheet surface melting. [...]
By Christine, on September 20, 2012, at 6:55 am Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland speaks at the Arctic Imperative Summit, 2012 in Girdwood, Alaska. Well worth the 30 minute listen – this is one politician that speaks the truth to power. Wake up, folks! Thanks to Doug Grandt, climate warrior extraordinaire, for sharing this link.
By Mark Brooks, on September 7, 2012, at 11:23 am “Scientists say this year’s record declines in Arctic sea ice extent and volume are powerful evidence that the giant cap of ice at the top of the planet is on a trajectory to largely disappear in summer within a decade or two, with profound global consequences.
“This extreme melting offers dramatic evidence, many scientists say, that the region’s sea ice has passed a tipping point and that sometime in the next decade or two the North Pole will be largely ice-free in summer.”
For more info, check out this article on the Environmental News Network: Climate Change News: Arctic
By Jay Cables, on August 28, 2012, at 6:59 am Since satellite tracking began in 1979 the lowest readings of Arctic sea-ice have all been within the last six years. This year has seen a record breaking retreat of sea-ice with weeks of summer still ahead and more melt likely on the way.
Independent:
The US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado said that the 2007 record was broken on Sunday with two or three weeks of the melt season still remaining, suggesting that this year’s sea ice will retreat substantially further than at any time in the satellite era. The snow and ice centre said that
. . . → Read More: Drive-by Planet: Arctic ice cap melt: record low in 2012
By LeDaro, on August 26, 2012, at 9:42 am Stephen Harper has acquired a house in the Canadian Arctic and he is moving there permanently. Arctic deserves him and he deserves Arctic and being there he will be keeping an eye on the Arctic and its sovereignty.
By Nancy Leblanc, on August 21, 2012, at 6:35 am Aw, is Harp making the inspiration meter go thud again? “Those who want to see the future of this country should look north,” the prime minister told a gathering of Conservative supporters.
“Because that great national dream — the development of northern resources — no longer sleeps. It is not down the road. It is happening now,” Harper said in a speech at this small outpost south of Whitehorse. “The North’s time has come, my friends, and you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
That great national dream of developing northern resources no longer sleeps, yes. Gotta tell ya, when I
. . . → Read More: Impolitical: On great national dreams
By Christine, on August 17, 2012, at 9:48 am There’s not much good news to write about today, as a bubble of cold air from the Arctic moves into central North America. Brace yourself for some record-breaking cold if you (like me) live in that region. But that’s not the worst of it by a long shot; unfortunately this could mean that warmer southern [...]
By Richard Littlemore, on August 7, 2012, at 5:17 pm August 2012, Arctic ice extent models.png
As the extent of Arctic sea ice declines to levels unrecorded since satellite monitoring began, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new analysis that shows the situation to be worse by far than even the most pessimistic models predicted.
It's a perverse endorsement of one of the most popular denier memes – that you can't rely on climate models because the world is too complicated to be reduced to a compilation of computer data. But, thanks to the expertise (and conservative nature) of the scientists behind this work, the models
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: Arctic Ice Decline Much Worse Than Expected
By mollymew, on July 16, 2012, at 8:07 pm ENVIRONMENT:
A TASTE OF SHELL GAMES TO COME IN THE ARTIC: Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In Alaskan Harbor By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 16, 2012 at 12:23 pm Photo: Teresa Derrick-Laxfoss
by Kiley KrohRoyal Dutch Shell’s preparedness to drill offshore in the harsh and remote Arctic Ocean this summer has been called into question by a series of recent events.Over the weekend, the company’s drilling rig, the Noble Discoverer, appears to have come dangerously close to running aground near Dutch Harbor, where Shell’s fleet has been assembled. The Noble Discoverer is one of (Read more…)
By Laurel Whitney, on June 2, 2012, at 12:00 am Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png
There's a saying that trouble comes in threes. Earlier this week, the International Energy Administration announced that emissions reached a record high last year, increasing by 1 Gt worldwide. At the Bonn climate talks, experts have warned that the window to curb a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees is swiftly drawing to a close.
To cap it off, NOAA released the news that carbon dioxide levels have reached a new milestone this spring, tipping the scales over 400 ppm, a concentration the world hasn't seen in the last 800,000 years.
Scientists are seeing these high
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: 400 PPM Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Breach The Arctic
By Evan Leeson, on May 26, 2012, at 3:00 pm Arctic-MultiYear-Ice-1980-150×150 (1).jpg
NASA has shown repeatedly that the Actic icecap is melting, and melting faster than climate models predict. This new visualization is stark and should be of obvious concern, simply because of the impact on sea levels. Now there is a potentially new threat. The process of shrinkage may cause a chemical reaction that could poison the Arctic ecosystem with mercury.
The disappearance of old, thick ice in the Arctic means an increase in bromine released into the atmosphere. The new, thinner ice has more salt and this is where the bromine comes from. As it melts it interacts
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: Shrinking Arctic Ice May Cause Mercury Poisoning
By Nancy Leblanc, on May 17, 2012, at 8:26 am About this: “Ottawa to auction exploration rights in massive area in the North.” Looks like it’s go time in the Arctic: “…the sheer magnitude of what is on the block is a clear signal that some in the oil patch are contemplating a return north, because parcels aren’t made available unless companies request them. In that sense, the current bidding round is a remarkable turnaround for an industry whose plans were, until late last year, halted by a National Energy Board review into offshore Arctic drilling.”
The Globe report is missing a major angle, however, the environmental
. . . → Read More: Impolitical: Arctic drilling on the horizon
By Nancy Leblanc, on May 11, 2012, at 7:53 am This story isn’t funny: “Army struggles with shortage of Arctic parkas, tents…” But the photo accompanying it certainly is! Maybe Harp can lend his parka out to the army, he sure looks warm in that shot. Nice find by Canadian Press.
The Arctic is supposed to be a pet project of the Prime Minister’s yet we read about basic shortages like this. Is there anything more ridiculous that we could expect to hear than this?
The emperor has no clothes…oh wait.
By Nancy Leblanc, on March 2, 2012, at 12:56 am
Who knew a video of an Arctic research station, the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, could be so oddly compelling. Maybe it’s the music. Maybe it’s the circumstances where a key Canadian scientific research asset in the Arctic is denied the $1.5 million it needs to sustain its operation and will have to shut down. That is largely due to the discontinuation of government funding to the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, which had been covering three-quarters of the station’s costs, and the end to the International Polar Year program.
Drummond said the
. . . → Read More: Impolitical: Late night
By Guest, on January 22, 2012, at 9:15 pm Vote 4 Oil.png
Guest post by Connor Gibson, cross-posted from Polluterwatch.
Two days ago, President Obama denied the permit for the destructive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, much to the dismay of Big Oil's top lobbyist and propagandist. Speaking at the National Press Club to an audience dominated by oil, coal and nuclear representatives and lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute (API) president Jack Gerard continued to lash out at President Obama over the pipeline decision. However, activists attending their event fact checked Jack's big oil talking points.
Shortly after asking the president, "what are you thinking?!" a group of
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: American Petroleum Institute’s Jack Gerard Fact Checked By Activists During Speech
By Nancy Leblanc, on October 11, 2011, at 7:38 am The Harper government’s cuts to Environment Canada and their tinkering with our ozone monitoring systems deserve lots of ongoing attention. Note this from Climate Progress Saturday, the giant ozone hole that was detected and reported on recently may ha… . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Cuts with consequences
By trashee, on October 5, 2011, at 5:00 am So the ozone layer over the Arctic wasn’t really, uh, “there” earlier this year. And that’s a bad thing, boys and girls, because this very thin layer of our atmosphere protects we mere humans from harmful solar radiation. And maybe even aliens. The mean kind. With ray guns. Of course, the Harper Government is all [...] . . . → Read More: Trashy’s World: Holy ozone, Batman!
By Nancy Leblanc, on September 22, 2011, at 6:52 am Let’s check in on how it’s going since government cuts to Canada’s long time ozone monitoring program made news and the international scientific community took note. Karen Dodds, the assistant deputy minister in the Environment department is claiming t… . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Ozone monitoring cuts backlash
By Chris Mooney, on September 19, 2011, at 11:12 am N_daily_extent_hires.png Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center came out with the estimate that we did not quite set a record for the minimum extent of Arctic sea this year. Rat… . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: New Record or Not, the Arctic Sea Ice Alarm Bells Keep Ringing
By Nancy Leblanc, on September 15, 2011, at 8:01 am Great post on the Harper government’s latest anti-science move: “What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us.” They’re axing an ozone monitoring project in the Arctic that has been in place for 45 years, providing continuous data. The international scientific co… . . . → Read More: Impolitical: The anti-science government at work
By Chris Mooney, on July 27, 2011, at 12:33 pm N_daily_extent_hires.png In my last post, I discussed how the increasing risk of devastating heat waves—unlike the worsening of tornadoes—is definitely a phenomenon we can link to glo… . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog – Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Annual Arctic Sea Ice Drama Begins
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