In ice-ages, CO2 hides in the oceans (yes we knew that)
Antarctic Glacier Image: Paomic It comes as not even a tiny surprize that when someone asks “Where does all the CO2 go in an ice age?” that the answer is “The Ocean“. We already know temperatures rise...
View ArticleFossils show models can’t predict how climate affects animals
Fossils show those dang mammals lived in all the spots they weren’t supposed to live in. Climate models don’t predict the climate, and animal distribution models don’t predict (or in this case...
View ArticleGlaciers on the move: Two minutes of extreme climate change on Swiss Alps,...
The next ice coming to Europe might look something like the last ice age shown in this simulation. A time when Venice will be top of a long paddock that stretches to Albania. In school children are...
View ArticleSurprise: The Last Ice Age was colder than anyone thought. Blame CO2!
We panic about the next half degree of warming (above the 1.5 we’ve already had) but the depth of the ice age was savagely cold. For years the experts told us what Earth’s temperature was then, but...
View ArticleRunning out of time in the Holocene…
At some point, the ice sheets want their land back We’re balanced at the end of a ten-thousand-year warm spike, in an ocean of ice-ages, reshaping our economy to try to stop a half a degree of warming....
View ArticleIn 1978 we were heading toward another ice age
Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was warning people about the next ice age coming in 1978: The world has cooled for the last 3,000 years. The glaciers have expanded. Temperatures have fallen dramatically in the...
View ArticleExtreme heat no one wants to mention: Greenland warmed 10 degrees in a few...
Greenland by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash By Jo Nova We may be living through some of the best weather in the last 100,000 years Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone reports on a new paper showing the...
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