Arctic Ice June 2011The sun is the main driver of climate and weather. The Arctic solar year could be plotted as a graph of the angle of the sun relative to the horizon, negative in winter and positive in summer. The graph would be a very neat waveform which varied little in amplitude or in frequency on decadal timescales. B
Arctic Ice August 2010Arctic warming and global warming.The year up to July 31 has produced many examples of anomalous weather events globally. We have seen fires, floods, droughts and sandstorms on an immense scale. A new report shows that 10 out of 10 indicators of global warming are trending in the direction predicted when global warming was m
Arctic Ice June 2010This article describes the current state of the Arctic sea ice and makes some predictions for the month ahead. The predictions are based on my visual analysis of hundreds of satellite images. I begin with some background and explanatory materials and then show how satellite images can be analyzed to show the mechanis