Category Archives: ice

Sea kayaking to the front lines of climate change in the Arctic

Posted on August 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

Reading this bumped up my wish to travel to the Alaskan North Country and I live on land that’s not far at all from the North Country of the Adirondacks, New York. Well, anyway, things are changing and changing fast in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean and human activities – our burning of coal to make electricity and our burning of petroleum for fuel and heat – that emit carbon dioxide are to blame.

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Posted in Alaska, Arctic Ocean, Arctic sea ice, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, coal, coal-fired power plants, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, ice, polar bear, politicians, pollution, sea-level rise

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Sea levels alng East Coast rising faster than elsewhere, study shows

Posted on June 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

The reason why sea levels are rising is directly traceable to human actions, like the burning of coal to make electricity. The climate change deniers can cry foul all they want, but that will not change the fact that the Greenland ice sheet is melting and West Antarctic ice is also returning to water. Read the reporting here.

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Warm ocean currents blamed for most Antarctic ice loss

Posted on April 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

That’s the lead item in this NASA release. I wonder what my friends in Pennsylvania, Autumn and her husband John, think of this, given their status as veterans of service at the McMurdo Station.

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No place for heated opinions

Posted on April 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

That place is “tee vee.” And the product is a documentary about ice. Read how climate change somehow didn’t make it into the final product – for tee vee.

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Nice, balmy winter and so much for ice fishing

Posted on February 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

When living on Plattsburgh Air Force Base across Lake Champlain from where I now live, the big lake always froze over as winter got going. I recall watching deer on the ice near Crab Island from a window of our home in base housing overlooking the lake. That was in the late 80s. Now, Lake Champlain is wide open. That’s it for ice fishing. And it is hard not to think of climate change when thinking of the big lake. Today’s NY Times has this feature about ice fishing and the lack thereof in Minnesota.

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Posted in ice, ice fishing, Lake Champlain, Minnesota

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NASA mission takes stock of melting of Earth’s melting land ice

Posted on February 10, 2012 | 1 comment

The cause of the melting is well known, except by certain deniers in Congress, the media, and on cable Tee Vee. This NASA news release says more.

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Posted in carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Clean Air Act, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, ice

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Lake Champlain and ice: Not this winter – again

Posted on January 22, 2012 | 1 comment

This in-depth feature from today’s Burlington, Vt., paper does a good job explaining the history of ice on the lake, the lake’s ecology, and the past, present and future of ice fishing on Champlain. The big shanty towns of the past are now just history. Climate change at work?

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Posted in fisheries, Fishing, ice, ice fishing, Lake Champlain

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Study: Warming oceans will melt ice faster

Posted on July 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Well, this will surely shake up those Repubs in Congress. Right right right.It’s bad enough that the U.S. now has a national park, Glacier, whose namesake glaciers are gone thanks to human activities like the  burning of coal and oil.

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Posted in climate change, coal-fired power plants, fossil fuels, gas hogs, gasoline, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, habitat destruction, human development, ice, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Living on thin ice, in Antarctica

Posted on May 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

OK, there’s not a lot of reading here, which is good news for tee vee viewers and those folks hooked on video games. But the pictures do tell a helluva story. If only the friends of Big Oil and Big Coal, a k a members of Congress, would wake up.

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Changes in the climate and a windier Great lake

Posted on November 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

There are, without a doubt, many other such unnatural stories in the out-of-doors. Here’s the one from Lake Superior.

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Posted in climate change, ice, warming water

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