Norway backsliding on climate issues : Views and News from Norway

Environmentalists were calling Norwegian Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe “a public relations agent” for Statoil on Friday, while industrial firm Aker reportedly may shut down its Aker Clean Carbon unit. Concerns are rising that Norway’s government and industry are backsliding on lofty promises to hinder climate change by cutting carbon emissions.

Antarctic crack could cause city-sized iceberg - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

When the ice breaks apart, it will produce an iceberg more than 880 square kilometres, said Mr Studinger, who is part of the US space agency's IceBridge project.

But the process is not a result of global warming, he said.

"We expect that later this year or early next year there will be a pretty large iceberg forming as part of a natural cycle," he said.

"These are cyclical events that occur every few years. The last big carving event occurred in 2001, so in general people have been expecting something to happen like that very soon.

Thrill-seeking for Gaia « The Daily Bayonet

DeCarteret is a member of ICECAAP, the ‘International Consortium of Explorers Concerned for the Arctic, Antarctic and Poles‘. In fact, ICECAAP is so concerned about it that the Latest News on their site is from March 2007. Someone should tell the concerned explorers that they need to keep their greenwash current if they don’t want pesky bloggers calling them thrill-seeking climate dilettantes, or something.

NBC Nightly News Regarding The Recent October Snowstorm And A Quote From John Nielsen-Gammon | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

One of the quotes in there, from my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, does not appear to conform, regarding the October snow news report at NBC, to what he had written earlier on the drought in Texas.

1925, 1930 October Blizzards Buried New England | Real Science