27 September 2018, NOAA, 2018 Arctic sea ice minimum continues longer trend. Arctic sea ice has probably reached its annual minimum for 2018, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Sea ice extent dipped to 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Science
Climate News Network, 7 August 2018, Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable. Human actions threaten to push the planet into a new state, called Hothouse Earth. In such a world global average temperatures could stabilise at 4°C or even 5°C higher than they … Continue reading →
30 July 2018, The Conversation, The ozone hole is both an environmental success story and an enduring global threat. The headlines in recent months read like an international eco-thriller. At Mauna Loa Observatory, perched high on a Hawaiian volcano, researchers measure unusual levels of CFC-11 in … Continue reading →
28 July 2018, World Weather Attribution Heatwave in northern Europe, summer 2018. The summer of 2018 has been remarkable in northern Europe. A very persistent high-pressure anomaly over Scandinavia caused high temperature anomalies and drought there from May to (at least) July. Southern … Continue reading →