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The Climate Show #18: The Big Chill & The Big Fracking Issue

by Glenn Williams August 19, 2011

The big chill freezes New Zealand, Arctic sea ice in the balance, the US has a warm July, the world is getting mad about fracking and some more unusual uses for solar energy. While Gareth is lost in fields of sunflowers, The Climate Show returns with Glenn and John at the helm. Watch The Climate [...]

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The Climate Show #17: the end of the peer show

by Gareth July 27, 2011

Nano electric cars from India, 100 year old electric vehicles, the Petermann ice island floating down towards the Atlantic, heatwaves in the USA and snow in North Canterbury, and a bit of peerless chat about a larrikin Lord on his way to New Zealand. With added vegan cheese and the BFC (big fat cat). Yes [...]

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Catch a fire (worst year since 1816)

by Gareth June 26, 2011

The extraordinary sequence of extreme weather events during the last 18 months is probably the worst run of natural disasters since 1816, when a huge volcanic eruption at Mt Tambora cooled the earth enough to cause the famous “year without a summer“, according to a powerful blog post by Weather Underground founder Jeff Masters. He [...]

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Thundersnow is go! (for weather geeks)

by Gareth February 4, 2011

It’s been snowing in America. It snowed quite a lot in Chicago. They even had thundersnow, which is rare enough to have excited Weather Channel presenter Jim Cantore quite a lot. I’ve never experienced thundersnow. I’m almost jealous. Almost. The ripe peaches at Limestone Hills are some compensation… More on American snow at Jeff Masters’ [...]

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The 2010 Climate B.S. of the Year Award

by Gareth December 31, 2010

This a guest post by the Climate BS Awards committee. Welcome to the 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award. 2010 saw widespread and growing evidence of rapidly warming global climate and strengthening scientific understanding of how humans are contributing to climate change. Yet on the policy front, little happened to stem the growing emissions [...]

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Long hot summer

by Gareth February 5, 2009

There’s record heat in Australia and deep snow in England (with more to come, say Met men), and it’s all consistent with continuing global warming. Over at Wellington’s leading public transport blog, this is enough to inspire a remarkably ill-informed diatribe: Following the news as I do, it was delicious today to see the global [...]

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All together now

by Gareth July 8, 2008

It’s getting hectic down here in the Waipara bunker: articles to write, truffles to harvest – stuff is piling up, not least in a multitude of tabs in my web browser, items set aside as possible subjects for posts here. So here’s one of my infrequent omnibus posts to give me some room to move [...]

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Hole in the ice

by Gareth July 3, 2008

The National Snow & Ice Data Centre in the US is issuing regular (monthly, though they might have to become more frequent soon) updates on the progress of this year’s Arctic melt season. Today they released their report for June, and like their earlier reports (accessed from the drop down menu top right on the [...]

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Sugar coated iceberg

by Gareth May 8, 2008

Prognostications on the fate of the Arctic sea ice this boreal summer are coming in thick and fast. The National Snow and Ice Data Centre in the US has updated its summer news page with the latest data and some projections of what might happen: Spring has arrived in the Arctic. After peaking at 15.21 [...]

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“The Arctic ice is back to normal.” Yeah, right. #2

by Gareth April 26, 2008

This latest New Scientist video accompanies a news item headlined “North Pole could be ice free in 2008“, and shows multi-year ice moving out of the Arctic over winter. “The set-up for this summer is disturbing,” says Mark Serreze, of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). A number of factors have this [...]

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