You can help crowd-fund an important scientific research trip — along with a videographer and journalist to cover it. Climate De-Crocker Peter Sinclair explains: On April 21, 2013, the Dark Snow Project brought a bit of Greenland to Manhattan, to illustrate the importance of this summer’s planned expedition to sample Greenland ice. It kicked off…
National Geographic Extreme Ice: In the extreme, ice-bound regions of the earth, something unprecedented is happening. Everywhere, glaciers and ice sheets have begun breaking apart, and accelerating towards the oceans at alarming speeds. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1393566 Related World’s Changing Glaciers “Chasing Ice” (2012)
Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Visit IMDB for more film details. Donate to the project chasingice.com Update The old movie version is no longer available, updated the video URL to a…
November 06, 2008: SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series “Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics in a warming world” Dr. Gwenn Flowers, Canada Research Chair in Glaciology / Department of Earth Sciences Teaser image credit: Ted Scambos & Rob Bauer, NSIDC / A researcher works with an ice core drill during the 2003 Antarctic Megadunes expedition.
Climate deniers like to claim that cold weather over eastern north america and eurasia somehow contradicts a warming planet. In fact, scientists are now observing what may become a more frequent pattern, caused by declining northern sea ice – of frigid polar air being pushed out of the arctic regions, while warmer air is drawn…
Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) http://amap.no/swipa/ 2011 SWIPA — A Changing Environment + SWIPA — The New Arctic Reality https://climateforce.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/swipa-a-changing-environment
The Telegraph: Scientists have captured dramatic footage of massive lakes in the Arctic melting away in a matter of hours. Related Greenland ice sheet collapse, triggered ancient sea level rise 400,000 years ago