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66 Degrees North: I think I need to be more careful with my wording..
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Monday, 2 January 2012. I think I need to be more careful with my wording. As permanent ice decreases, we are looking at ice-free summers in the Arctic as early as 2030.". Http:/ www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/urgent-action-needed-as-arctic/. Evidence-poor information) and has endured 'warmer periods than th...
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66 Degrees North: Wrapping up (1)
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Tuesday, 3 January 2012. How do we know the sea ice retreat in the past few years is unusual? The blog started off by looking at this question, firstly by using satellite data. Since satellite data began in 1979, sea ice extent and thickness have been decreasing at an alarming rate. A number of proxy records show a sea-ice his...
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66 Degrees North: Recent warming of Arctic Water (AW)
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Recent warming of Arctic Water (AW). Just a short post about a short article from Science which was published in January. Spielhagen et al (2011). AAWL) This strongly suggests that Arctic Water (AW) inflow from the Atlantic is warming, which has the potential to significantly speed up sea ice melt.
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66 Degrees North: Using Quartz as an Ice Rafted Debris (IRD) record
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Monday, 14 November 2011. Using Quartz as an Ice Rafted Debris (IRD) record. In addition to IP25, Axford et al 2011. In a single core example, Moros et al (2006). By incorporating multiple sites into an analysis, the authors reduced the likelihood of significant 'noise' in the data caused by unmeasurable effects of sediment en...
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66 Degrees North: Google Insights
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Thursday, 5 January 2012. Came across this on the internet the other day and thought it was a great way to illustrate, albeit unscientifically, broad patterns in the public consciousness. Google insights. If you're interested). As an example, here's the worldwide results for terms including ' London 2012. There's a couple of t...
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66 Degrees North: Out of sight, out of mind?
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Monday, 17 October 2011. Out of sight, out of mind? Last month (Sept 2011) marked the end of the summer maximum in the northern hemisphere, and the total sea ice extent change data is beginning to emerge. This year’s summer extent was on a par with the record low of 2007. Overall, the far north is changing faster than almost a...
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66 Degrees North: Melting Permafrost - should I be worried?
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Friday, 16 December 2011. Melting Permafrost - should I be worried? If you missed the series, I'd encourage you to have a catch-up. Interestingly, this video also features the same Dr Walter as the previous video. Frequently when talking about melting permafrost, and I hope I'll explain why the potential. Drunk' trees which ca...
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66 Degrees North: The C25 HBI Monoene AKA "IP25" biomarker in marine sediment cores - a valuable contribution?
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Wednesday, 9 November 2011. The C25 HBI Monoene AKA "IP25" biomarker in marine sediment cores - a valuable contribution? The first one is the use of IP. From Marine sediment cores to reconstruct a history of ice extent in the Arctic region. Skeletal formula of the IP. The potential of 'IP. Masse et al (2008). Record broadly ag...
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66 Degrees North: The Arctic - A "Miner's Canary"?
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Monday, 9 January 2012. The Arctic - A "Miner's Canary"? What has this got to do with me? Should I be worried? It would be easy to get sentimental here by saying something like 'we're all citizens of this planet' etc etc, but I'll resist. for the time being! Are a warning sign, a miner's canary. And ocean albedo effects would ...
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66 Degrees North: SCPs in the Arctic (Arctic Pollution Part II)
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Exploring environmental change, past, recent and future in arctic environments with a focus on ecosystem change. If you disagree with anything posted, comment! Let's have a debate. Friday, 30 December 2011. SCPs in the Arctic (Arctic Pollution Part II). Continuing from the last post on Arctic pollution, this post will look at the pollution record from Svalbard, a remote island off the coast of Norway high into the Arctic circle. Was especially interesting and showed significant local. Remote area. Lo...
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