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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Climate Skeptic Team, Poached Caviar, and More
The summer Arctic could be ice-free in a few years, further accelerating global warming, and ultimately causing more volatile weather in the lower 48, of the kind we've been experiencing only... worse.
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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Bye-Bye Thermal Shield, Oceanic Ceviche, and More
Peter Sinclair's new, short 2012 Arctic ice melt video includes the time lapse satellite imagery illustrating the rapid, dramatic shrinkage of this ice cap. In just the past 12 years alone, 70 percent of the September summer ice cap... Read Post
Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Tippy Arctic Times, Siberian Carbon Bomb and More
Most experts now agree that the polar summer ice is beyond the point of return, and consequences will be profound, including significant changes in weather patterns for the U.S. and other countries in the northern hemisphere. Read Post
Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: New Polls, Threatened Energy Facilities and More
New polls show an uptick in concern about climate change among Americans, a majority of whom now believe that global warming and climate change contribute to increasingly worse US weather, from heat waves and drought to record snowf... Read Post