Sea ice extent in Antarctica last month set a new record high for the month of April while Arctic sea ice extent in April was essentially the same as it was a decade ago.   Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows average sea ice extent around Antarctica reached 9.1 […]

Time to take a quick look at the sea ice situation down under, as I must have missed it on BBC News. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html According to NSIDC, a new record high has been set for April, beating last year. Ice is above average virtually all around the continent. Meanwhile, according to Bob Tisdale, Southern Ocean surface […]

The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not […]

Anyone interested in climate change will have noticed the numerous headlines proclaiming March 2015 to be the warmest month ever and the first three months of 2015 to have broken the record for the warmest start to any year on record. This year has undoubtedly started off warm, but the claim that it is unprecedented and […]

The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t start until June, but early forecasts suggest this year could be one the quietest on record. Preliminary forecasts from universities in the UK and the US all point to the Atlantic having below average storm activity this year, with some forecasts suggesting there could be near-record breaking low activity. […]

Contrary to the claims of a recent Nature Climate Change study, there has never been such an abundance of fish in the North Sea, this veteran fisherman claims Sir, The Nature Climate Change study has completely misread the habitat of the northern North Sea (report, Apr 14). North Sea haddock has been managed for years […]

Annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies are the most important proxy archives to reconstruct climate variability over centuries to millennia. However, the suitability of tree-ring chronologies to reflect the ‘true’ spectral properties of past changes in temperature and hydroclimate has recently been debated. At issue is the accurate quantification of temperature differences between early-19th […]

The decline in Arctic sea ice has become an iconic symbol of global warming. You don’t have to look far on the internet to find predictions by scientists, campaigners and commentators about how soon the region will become ice free in the summer. Unfortunately for those predictions, the Arctic ice has not been listening. The Arctic […]