Polar Bear Blog – Breakup on Hudson Bay

Bad Timing – The current panic over Churchill’s polar bears stems from a constant comparison of the polar bears from the mid-1980s (condition, population, etc) to the early 2000s data (up to 2003 ice season). The challenge here is that these charts sure make it look like the early 1980s were actually PEAK years for Churchill’s bears while the late 90s/early 2000s were a string of disasters.

Film profiles scientists in the front line of climate change | Voxy.co.nz

Excerpts from a new feature film that paints an intimate portrait of the global community of researchers racing to understand the world’s changing climate will be shown at Victoria University tonight.

Six years in the making, Thin Ice-the Inside Story of Climate Science, follows 40 scientists, including a number from New Zealand, at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. They talk about their work and their hopes and fears as they study changes in the atmosphere, oceans and ice sheets through measurements and computer modelling.
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Tonight’s event is the beginning of a six week campaign to raise awareness of the opportunity for global audiences to see the film for free in April 2013.

Nenana Ice Classic

Mar 7 - 48.7 Inches  [Ice thicker in 2013 than on the same date decades ago?]