Spring has sprung in the Arctic | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Between the 2012 summer minimum and the 2013 winter maximum, sea ice extent increased 11.72 million square kilometers (4.53 million square miles), the largest increase in the satellite record...The ASCAT data and ice age data both suggest a continued thinning of the ice pack, and overall decline in its volume, but they do not provide direct information on ice thickness.

Twitter / SawmillCreekCO: BLM shows how to fight climate ...

BLM shows how to fight climate change with another big coal lease sale. http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Information/newsroom/2013/april/blm_offers_land_in.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …

In a Warming World, the Storms May Be Fewer But Stronger [or maybe fewer and weaker]: NASA

Extra-tropical cyclones, for example, harvest energy from the atmosphere when masses of warm and cold air interact along the polar front—the boundary between cooler polar air and warmer subtropical air. As the difference between the temperature at the poles and the tropics decreases, there could be less energy for these storms to absorb, a change that could weaken them or make them less frequent.

It's Not Easy Being Green

“I feel like the community has splintered,” says Chris Clarke, a writer in Joshua Tree, California, and a co-founder of the group Solar Done Right, which has battled the construction of utility-scale solar stations in the Mojave Desert that involve destroying vast stretches of wilderness. “Some people are unwilling to call themselves ‘environmentalists’ because ‘environmentalist’ has now come to mean climate-change mitigation at any cost.”