Facts About the Arctic in July 2025
At the beginning of July JAXA/ViSHOP Arctic sea ice extent is still “lowest for the date” in their record going back to 1979: The PIOMAS sea ice thickness map for June 30th reveals that the previously thick ice in the Chukchi…
Restoring Arctic Exceptionalism: New Approach
The Quincy Institute and The Arctic Institute held a public policy conference on Arctic security and cooperation.
Facts About the Arctic in September 2023
There’s lots of coverage specifically about assorted Arctic sea ice extent metrics over on the “2023 Minimum Extent” thread. However we’ll start the September open thread ball rolling with a couple of cross posted images. At the end of August…
The 2023 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent
It’s that time of year again! Tony Heller has been asserting that “summer is over at the North Pole” for several weeks now, and the 2023 Arctic sea ice minimum extent will occur at some point over the next four…
The Information War with the Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s a few minutes old Xweet from my now ex Member of the European Parliament, Molly Scott Cato: Those of us who care about the climate are in an information war with the fossil fuel industry This is a forensic…
Facts About the Arctic in August 2023
We have grandchildren visiting this week, so it seems prudent to get the new open thread started a day early, and before they wake up! The ARCUS Sea Ice Prediction Network July report has recently been published. Here’s the graphic…
Tony Heller’s Faithful Flock of Sheep
My Arctic alter ego was checking out the new “X” rated edition of Twitter when “she” couldn’t help but notice that Elon Musk had allowed Tony Heller back into the climate “debate” thereon, albeit with a new handle. “Snow White”…
Facts About the Arctic in July 2023
After briefly being near the bottom of the historical range at the beginning of the month, AWI’s high resolution AMSR2 area metric is now back near the top of that range: However, although it’s not visible on the area graph extent has…