Charts of the week: Decline of Arctic Sea Ice

Via NatureClimate's feed, a great GIF-animated graph showing the diminshing Arctic sea ice in summer, heading towards zero in late summer perhaps as early as the 2020's. Some bloggers say even earlier.  Above chart works best if you click to enlarge. Chart below needs no enlargement. Via RealClimate. They link to a blogger from NewContinue reading “Charts of the week: Decline of Arctic Sea Ice”

Popular denier waves off hottest spring in U.S. history

The multitudes at this site have been wondering how long it will take before the most popular of climate change deniers waves off the hottest spring in American history. It's been months.  Well, the wait is over. Anthony Watts finally bothered to opine on the subject, cleverly mixing the minimization of the hottest spring andContinue reading “Popular denier waves off hottest spring in U.S. history”

The least known proof of global warming: phenology

A month ago Heidi Cullen, the hardest working weatherperson around, penned a NY Times op-ed about the least known proof of global warming, phenology: The climatologist Mark D. Schwartz at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and colleagues at the USA National Phenology Network have developed an index that can be used to estimate the date ofContinue reading “The least known proof of global warming: phenology”