Australian Climate Madness: Earth Hour - why bother?

Earth Hour is being criticised from all sides - the Greenies think it's a pointless political gesture, and the sceptics think it's, er, a pointless political gesture. Given the choice, The Age will only focus on the first of these, of course...

Climate Observations: Oceanic Volcanism and Sea Surface Temperature

As you will note in the video, Sea Surface Height and Sea Surface Temperature anomalies vary greatly over the course of days, weeks, months, years, and decades. These continuous perturbations are not likely caused by an infrequent awakenings of oceanic volcanoes. They’re caused by coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Artists Explore Antarctica’s Alleged "Long Goodbye" - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

My piece on a new study proposing that West Antarctica’s meltdown would take centuries to get under way and millenniums to complete inspired a couple of readers to point to artwork on this issue.