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POPSRoyal Society: Hurricanes doubled over century The dearly held tenants that the global warming denialists cling onto so tenaciously are disappearing faster than the Arctic ice-shelf. The latest one to crumble is the notion that global warming does not increase the number and frequency of hurricanes.
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POPSManhattan ice island found 50 kms offshore The first major ice-shelf calving in 25 years, in 2005, from the Ayles Ice Shelf in the Arctic, is slightly thicker than anticipated; Between 42-45m (138-148ft) - the equivalent of the height of a 10-storey building. That's the good news.
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POPSComputers can't keep up with melting Arctic Out of an exercise mapping real-world observations to computer climate models is news that global warming is more accelerated than the scientific consensus holds. Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado co-authored the latest study of Arctic ice melt, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, with other scientists from NSIDC and from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), also in Boulder, Colorado. This is the third piece of recent evidence that the IPCC forecasts err on the conservative side.
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POPSArctic hippopotamus to survive the polar bear We only have one hundred years till mankind can start living in it's own Jurassic Park, according to Appy Sluijs, an expert in ancient ecology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a fossil footprints of a pantodont found on an Arctic island. ::: Most adult polar bear males weigh 300-600 kg (660-1320 lbs) and measure 2.4-3.0 m (7.9-10.0 ft) in length, about the size of a pantadont. Both animals have made Svalbard island their home over time. :::
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