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Now we need the science of sea ice

Here's a look at how one American scientist has brought observation and math to the study of sea ice. It is physically quite different from glaciers, ice sheets and other forms of ice that originate on land. And global warming makes it imperative that we have some understanding...

Tags: Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Ice, Swine, and Sun

The last third of BIT's introduction to the Unix and Open Source Culture ran on Friday, February 27th - and drew one comment, a click-by sneering unrelated to the thing's content: The bottom line is ... Sun's SPARC...

Tags: Ice, Sun Microsystems Inc., George, Sea Ice, Junknstuff, Blogging, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-07

Reporter fakes experience of major meltdown in Greenland

I wrote that headline to please all the vociferous members of the Flat Earth and No Global Warming Association. In the interest of bi-partisanship I wanted them to feel included 'cause they're gonna hate the rest of this blog. A Conde Nast editor has just published a lengthy piece...

Tags: Greenland, Conde Nast Editor, Sea Ice, Internet, Litigation, Blogging, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-31

The IPCC Climate Change Report (Mobile)

Untitled DocumentKiller heat waves, constant brownouts, scarce drinking water, devastating hurricanes, drought, massively higher food prices, coastal cities inundated by the sea, and oceans made of acid. These may sound like scenarios from a bad science fiction movie, but they're not, they're real, and they're all documented in the Intergovernmental...

Tags: Mobile, Carbon Dioxide, eReader, Temperature, Sea Ice, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-02-04

Additional Resources

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Another flashpoint in global warming warnings

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling"Chicken Little date unknownNo, the sky is not falling, but, there are wide ranging problems caused by global warming that people have to deal with right here, right now. Somebody actually has to deal with overflowing lakes. The eco system on our planet...

Tags: global warming, Sun Microsystems Inc., global warming warning, flashpoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Those projections about global cooling better kick in quick cause the temperatures here on earth in real time are real hot. September was the second hottest month ever recorded when you look at surface temps for both oceans and landmass. The month's daily temps average more than a...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years

The Caitlin Arctic Survey and WWF released data that shows the Actic Ocean sea ice is thinning and predicts the ocean will be relatively ice free during summers ten years from now. by Andy Smith

Tags: Ocean, global warming, Arctic, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-10-16

What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?

One Alaskan scientist has been flying over the Arctic regularly for years. He has seen the ice disappearing. He doesn't need computer projections to warn him. He doesn't need models showing global cooling...or global warming. Shall we call it global disagreement? Where once the airborne...

Tags: Ice, Scientist, Productivity, Real Estate, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Hey, deniers, is hotter oceans not part of global warming? Just another hoax?

hmm...I'd like to see Christian come and spread his 'czarist' nonsense on this page >.>Thanks for pointing out the 1998 flaw by the way =)Another non-researched postYou make claims based solely upon a news report without actually researching the data.Try this and learn something:www.drroyspencer.com/2009/08 and read the article titled "Spurious...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

Northeast Passage: here we come

The first time?More proof facts have no place in the modern anti-science era.For those interested start with Swedish steamship Vega (1878).I think this will be the first commercial cargo ships to go through. In the past, it has only been for exploration and way to dangerous and costly for commercial...

Tags: Northeast Passage, Northwest Passage, Vega

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Global warming, bring it on

more moronic poll choicesAt what point could the people who create these polls pick 5 choices that are meaningful instead of parodies of any rational opinion?Targeted to it's marketRational opinion no longer required.RE: Global warming, bring it onI think that a severe ocean-raising global warming has the potential to adversely...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Global warming denial alert: human activities cancelling nature's cooling trend

I do my part but...For reasons of a smaller electric bill I conserve energy. I also recycle at work. But change my behavior to accommodate wackos? I don't think so. What gets me is the Environmentally Retarded, to whom Global Warming is a religion, only blame the Capitalist system in...

Tags: Obviously IT, global warming, kilometer

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-03

News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Arctic summer sea ice

I do not know...I wonder what caused the Ice Age's ??? And why they have found evidence way in the past of Tropical plants in the Arctic ??? Our Solar System is an amazing place, and full of surprises that are unexplained. A positive developmentAn open shipping route =...

Tags: Arctic, summer sea ice

Discussion threads 2009-08-11