March 30, 2009 NSIDC: 2009 annual maximum Arctic sea ice extent confirmed Sign up for the Arctic Sea Ice News RSS feed for automatic notification of analysis updates. Updates are also available via Twitter.

Wind patterns could mask effects of global warming in ocean NOAA satellite image of a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation. In this phase, the North Atlantic jet stream is shifted south of normal over the eastern U.S., and the

Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L05710; doi:10.1029/2008GL036781Possible oceanic feedback in

Understanding sea temperature-atmospheric pressure links in the North Atlantic ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2009) — Feedback effects between the ocean and atmosphere are important to understanding the mechanisms affecting climate variations.Previous

Van Jones, author of "The Green Collar Economy," gives the keynote speech at PowerShift '09.Link to this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlOv8RCk

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Readers, please take notice of how this works:Infection happens two ways. In one method, a user’s clicking on a document attached to an e-mail message lets the system covertly install software deep in the target operating system. Alternatively, a user

The one page attachment consists of the following note (sorry to have caused the need for this by my sloppy response to a reporter).New York Times Magazine Tomorrow’s NY Times Magazine article (The Civil Heretic) on Freeman Dyson includes

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26 March 2009 Michaels’ new graph — gavin @ 4:34 PM Every so often people who are determined to prove a particular point will come up with a new way to demonstrate it. This new methodology can initially seem compelling, but if the conclusion

Real Climate on the Cato Institute's and Patrick Michaels' latest scam24 March 2009 With all due respect…— group @ 11:33 AM There was a great comedy piece a few years back (whose origin escapes us) that gave examples of how the English would

Science (13 March 2009), Vol. 323, No. 5920, pp. 1443-1448; DOI: 10.1126/science.1167441

Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths environmentalresearchweb.org, March 20, 2009Releases may have speeded end of last ice age, and could act again. Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns

Kirk asked to explain Obama’s position on U.S. climate tariffs by Tina Seeley, Bloomberg, March 26, 2009 Republican lawmakers asked U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to explain the Obama administration’s

Environmental Research Letters, 4 (2009) 014012 (9 pp.); doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014012 How difficult is it to recover from dangerous levels of global warming? J A Lowe1, C Huntingford2, S C B Raper3, C D Jones4, S K Liddicoat4 and L K Gohar11

Lowering temperatures could be a slow processLiz Kalaugher, environmentalresearchweb, March 24, 2009The European Union has set a target level of 2 °C to prevent "dangerous" climate change. But if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rates

Sunspots at Solar Maximum and MinimumNASA's Earth Observatory, March 20, 2009 Sunspots acquired July 19, 2000 - March 18, 2009 Ultraviolet acquired July 19, 2000 - March 18, 2009 download large image (457 KB, GIF) acquired July 19,

by Michael Brooks, New Scientist, March 25, 2009IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived.