Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Unusual warmth continues (Tue, 06 Nov 2018)
Over the Pacific side of the Arctic, a pattern of unusual warmth noted in last month’s post continued. While sea ice extent in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas remains below average, extent remains especially low on the Atlantic side of … Continue reading →
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George Monbiot

In a World of Their Own (Sun, 11 Nov 2018)
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 7th Novemeber 2018   Knowingly…
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Grist

Protecting public lands was a winning platform in elections out West (Sat, 17 Nov 2018)
Conservation groups are hailing the victories as a rebuke of the Trump administration’s policies.
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RealClimate

Resplandy et al. correction and response (Wed, 14 Nov 2018)
Guest commentary from Ralph Keeling (UCSD) I, with the other co-authors of , want to address two problems that came to our attention since publication of our paper in Nature last week. These problems do not invalidate the methodology or the new insights into ocean biogeochemistry on which it is based, but they do influence […]
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New Scientist - Home

Kilogram to be defined by Planck constant instead of a lump of metal (Fri, 16 Nov 2018)
Scientists from around the world have unanimously voted for a new definition of the kilogram – one based on fundamental constants instead of “Le Grand K”
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Skeptical Science

The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires (Wed, 14 Nov 2018)
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