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Uncertainty in the Physics and Philosophy of Climate Change
I wrote this post last year for the National Journal, but it also relates to the way I think about Petermann Glacier’s ice islands. There are now at least 4 larger ice islands that formed from last...
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Global Weight Watch: Slimmer Greenland and Fatter Tropics
An ice island four times the size of Manhattan separated from Petermann Glacier, Greenland last year. Today one of these Manhattans reached the coast of Newfoundland. Never before has as large a piece...
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Pine Island Glacier Grounding and Unhinging
I can’t get Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica out of my mind. Checking my e-mail over breakfast, I was alerted to the forum post of Dr. King, a geophysicist working at the University of Newcastle in...
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Arctic Sea Ice Cover and Extreme Weather Explained
Addendum Sept.-24, 2012: A New Climate State, Arctic Sea Ice 2012 (video by Peter Sinclair). I just discovered an outstanding interview that Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University gave to a...
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Fish, Fashion, and Climate: Simple Thoughts on Complex Systems
I love pickled herring, but the fashion of eating this delicacy varies with changing cultures and climates. In northern Europe it used to be a standard fare, perhaps still is, but in my native coastal...
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Men and Women on the Edge 1
EDIT: Original post was too long and rambling. One advice by wise female council, I decided to turn this into two separate posts. This is the first. July 5, 2014. The “Quiet American” is not a popular...
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Is Petermann Gletscher Breaking Apart this Summer?
I am disturbed by new ocean data from Greenland every morning before breakfast these days. In 2015 we built a station that probes the ocean below Petermann Gletscher every hour. Data travels from the...
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