CLICK ON THE GRAPHS TO ENLARGEFrom the University of Bremen's site, June 29, 2008: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/arctic_AMSRE_nic.pngQuikscat Ice Mask from NOAA, June 29, 2008 -- have a look at the Hudson Bay compared to yesterday -- even

Arctic Sea Ice, Day 146, 2008Arctic Sea Ice, Day 176, 2

Prepare now for future coastal climate change impacts By Steven Stycos Sea level rises of at least three to five feet by 2100 and the likely increase in the frequency and strength of major storms due to carbon dioxide emissions from burning oil and

Please click on the image to enlarge it.Graph of temperature anomalies, by latitude, over time. Note the seemingly 5-yr. natural cycles from 1980 to 1997, then after 2002, these seem to be overwhelmed by the warming, although the period of time is too

January 23, 2008ANTARCTIC ICE LOSS SPEEDS UP, NEARLY MATCHES GREENLAND LOSSIce loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland,

CSIRO Sea Level Rise Curves, 1992-June 2008Click on the graph to enlarge it.Link to site: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_hist_last_15.h

by Clive Thompson, New York Times, June 22, 2008Photograph by John Foxx/Getty Images; Illustration by Geoff McFetridge THE INVISIBLE HAND ON THE SCALES: In a cap-and-trade system, the government caps the amount of carbon dioxide that energy companies

Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion At best we will limit the extent of global warming, but Kyoto barely helps. Does humanity have the foresight

NOAA: Global Temperature Seventh Warmest for Spring, Eighth Warmest for May June 13, 2008 The combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for spring (March-May) ranked seventh warmest, while May was the eighth warmest since worldwide

by Nora Schultz, NewScientist.com new service, 20 June 2008The most detailed Greenland ice-core analysis yet offers important clues about what caused the climate to change so rapidly at the end of the last ice age.

var articleheadline = "Arctic thaw threatens Siberian permafrost"; Arctic thaw threatens Siberian permafrost var articleheadline = "Arctic thaw threatens Siberian permafrostby Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent, Saturday, 14 June

Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century - A special report by Johann HariThe Independent, Friday, 20 June 2008 Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century

Science, 20 June 2008,Vol. 320, No. 5883, pp. 1622-1625DOI: 10.1126/science.1153929

Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice AgeRead the abstract at Science Express: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1157707 ScienceDaily, June 19, 2008 — Information gleaned from a Greenland

The post below was copied from the RealClimate.org blog of June 19, 2008. It was written by Gavin Schmidt.Hot on the heels of last months reporting of a discrepancy in the ocean surface temperatures, a new paper in Nature (by Domingues et al, 2008)

ScienceDaily, June 18, 2008 — New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Link to updated conditions at the Weather Channel site (ALERT: a commercial site with popups): http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/currentweatherusnational/usactualhightemps_large.h

Washington State has been cold. The first week of June was the coldest on record, and a recent Seattle Times headline read "Colder than Siberia," which in fact, we were. I'm doing laundry this morning, and it's almost all sweatshirts. I've heard the

Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice ShelfWatch the animation of the breakup at this site: http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMG58VG3HF_planet_0.htmlEuropean Space Agency, June 13, 2008The Wilkins Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with

What is Global Warming?The Earth as an ecosystem is changing, attributable in great part to the effects of globalization and man. More carbon dioxide is now in the atmosphere than has been in the past 650,000 years. This carbon stays in the atmosphere,