In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Methane Gas: The Great Escape
It’s been talked about for years, and now it’s really happening — methane, a global warming gas far more deadly than carbon dioxide, is escaping from the Arctic seabed in vast quantities, adding to the atmospheric burden. What effect will it have on our planet’s climate? UK newspaper The Independent led with what it described [...]
Arctic Ice Melt: 2008 Just Misses The Boat
Having recently passed the period of maximum retreat, the Arctic sea ice melt this year just missed beating last year’s record — but there’s little to celebrate. On Tuesday 16th September 2008, BBC News reported that according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the ice covered 4.5 million sq km (1.7 [...]
Still No Sunspots
The current Solar Cycle — an indicator of the sun’s magnetic activity, which in turn is believed to influence our planet’s climate — is confounding astronomers by resolutely refusing to conform to predictions. There should be increasing numbers of sunspots blemishing the sun’s surface by now, but there are none. What does this trend indicate [...]
When More Means Less
Recent news that Arctic winter sea ice bounced back to previous levels after an unprecedented summer melt prompted speculation that the global warming scenario had been exaggerated. Indeed, it’s been a surprisingly cold winter across much of the northern hemisphere — so is there really anything to worry about? Yes, says a new report backed [...]
Being Economical With The Truth
Is there no such thing as human-induced climate change? Is it all just a natural blip? The Telegraph‘s Christopher Booker seems to think so. Meanwhile, the Unknown Country web site has put solar radiation back in the frame as a candidate for climate disruption — but have they each arrived at these differing positions by [...]
Polar Meltdowns: More Evidence Emerges
When the Antarctic’s Larsen B ice shelf broke apart in 2002, human-induced climate change was blamed. Now two scientists claim there was rather more to it. Meanwhile, up north, a huge fracture in the Beaufort Sea ice pack has researchers worried about its implications for the future. It was 656 feet (200 metres) thick, had [...]
The Maya And The Arctic Meltdown
2007 is the year the Northwest Passage became navigable for the first time since records began; the year scientists predicted that arctic waters could be ice-free in summer within five or six years; the year the political temperature began rising over arctic resources ownership. What do the next five years hold for us? Much is [...]
More Climate Change Indicators
Hot — literally — on the heels of my North Polar Meltdown post of 12th October, which discussed the accelerating speed with which the north polar ice cap is disappearing, come three more climate-related items from the BBC News Online web site. The first describes a phenomenon that’s contributing to the polar melt, while the [...]
North Polar Meltdown
The day after I (rather hurriedly, because I was going out all day) posted an item about a British judge’s somewhat negative comments on Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, comes the news that Mr. Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their [...]
Gore Gored By British Judge
From BBC News Online, Wednesday 10th October 2007: Gore climate film’s ‘nine errors’ A High Court judge who ruled on whether climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools said it contains “nine scientific errors”. Mr Justice Burton said the government could still send the film to schools – if accompanied by [...]
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