NSIDC: February 26, 2009 Near-real-time data now available Arctic sea ice reflects sunlight, keeping the polar regions cool and moderating global climate. According to scientific measurements, Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically

From Democracy Now!, February 26, 2009Member of UN Environment Panel Warns Greenhouse Emissions Rising at Alarming, Unexpected Rate We speak to Chris Field, a leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, about

James Hansen talks with Charlie Rose about Coal, Sea Level Rise, and 4th Generation Nuclear Power Plants -- Must See Video!http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9216This video is 22 minutes long, but it loads very nicely, large format. Dr. Hansen

Capitol Hill coal power

UPDATE: For readers searching for Dr. Field's very important remarks, see this post for an interview that took place on the 26th and also a link to a video of his testimony before the Senate Committee on the Environment & Public Works from Feb. 25th

From Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog post on the George F. Will response:P.S.: In his column defending his climate claims, Mr. Will says a flaw reported in sea-ice data at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., justifies his statements

The answer to the riddle became clear on the train on the way home. I had puzzled about the continued attraction of Cap&Trade. Empirical evidence shows that Cap&Trade does not have a prayer of phasing out fossil fuel emissions fast enough to

Scientists address climate change by Louis Bergeron, Stanford Report, February 25, 2009 Stanford climate researchers Stephen Schneider and Ken Caldeira will be part of a panel discussion, "The Challenges of Climate Change,"

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. , No. ; Published online before print February 26, 2009; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0812355106 Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the

NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for Civil DisobedienceFoxNews, February 26, 2009BLOGGER'S NOTE: My daughter is hopping into a car as I type this -- she's on her way from Carbondale, Illinois, to Washington, DC, to participate

Geology, February 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2, 175–178; doi:10.1130/G25329A.1© 2009 Geological Society of America Multicentennial megadrought in northern Europe coincided with a global El Niño–Southern Oscillation drought pattern during the Medieval Climate

Environment ministers and other representatives from a dozen nations, on a fact-finding visit to Norway's Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, are shown here during a tour of the ice sheet below the Judulsessen massif of rock

UPDATE: Link to most recent paper of February 26, 2009, concerning "Reasons for Concern" (free, open-access pdf file), PNAS 2009: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/02/25/0812355106.full.pdf+htmlProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November