US 2011 summer second hottest summer on record
Meteorologists of NOAA conclude the high summer temperatures experienced in the US make the months of June, July and August 2011 the second hottest summer in recorded history.
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New evidence for bipolar seesaw link between Greenland and Antarctica – and abrupt climate variability
Glacials and interglacials on the northern and southern hemisphere somehow do not seem to correspond. This has led to a ‘thermal bipolar seesaw theory,’ whereby an off-mode in the thermohaline circulation leads to an ice age in Europe, but excess … Continue reading
Lull in upper ocean warming explained through ENSO – warming trend continues
Shortly after an El Niño event there is elevated heat exchange from the upper ocean layers to the cosmos over the tropical Pacific Ocean. In the North Atlantic Ocean, variations in the ocean circulation affect the heat exchange to the … Continue reading
Chinese sulphur pollution dampens/disguises global warming over last decade
A strange publication with an interesting conclusion.
Ongoing paleo study may help tune CO2 climate sensitivity
Here on Bitsofscience.org we’ve discussed the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) – that sudden CO2 and methane-induced peak climate warming (or ‘hyperthermal’) 55.8 million years ago of around 6 degrees over 20,000 years – on several occasions, because it offers an … Continue reading
NOAA’s analysis of climate records 2010: trend consistent with climate change
Here on Bitsofscience.org we hope to be your climate records reference point, so we try not to miss any of the major reports on temperature trends or Arctic melting records. That means we definitely could not ignore yesterday’s release by … Continue reading
Arctic sea ice attacked from two sides
Climate change is not only causing the Arctic sea ice to melt because it heats the atmosphere above it, but also through heat advection, by warming ocean currents that make contact with the ice.
Greenland lost record-breaking 0.5 trillion tons of ice in 2010 – to surface melting only
In 2010 Greenland lost more surface ice mass than in any other year since modern observations began, researchers of City College New York reported on Friday.