Tagged: Neven Acropolis

Arctic summer 2013: fragile ice pack feeling the pressure - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 15, 2013 •

• arctic,
• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate Science,
• Neven Acropolis,
• NSIDC

Looking down on the North Pole from satellite, NASA’s Arctic mosaic image for July 14 shows an unusually cloud-free view of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean. Click on the image to see the bigger original, and to zoom in on interesting regions. So far this year the sea ice melt has lagged behind […] … Read More

Why Arctic sea ice shouldn’t leave anyone cold - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Aug 26, 2012 •

• Albedo,
• arctic,
• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• extremes,
• Greenland,
• heatwaves,
• jet stream,
• methane,
• Neven Acropolis,
• oil,
• permafrost,
• Russia,
• Siberia

In this guest post Neven Acropolis, the man behind the excellent Arctic Sea Ice blog, looks at the reasons why we need to pay attention to the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Arctic sea ice became a recurrent feature on planet Earth around 47 million years ago. Since the start of [...] … Read More