In the Guardian yesterday, the paper's US Environmental correspondent, Suzanne Goldenberg writes: The world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre said today. Climate change has been steadily raising the...
Is JR Killing the Polar Bears?
'Tis the season of resurrections. And right on cue, science PR is working overtime to bring the polar-ice soap opera back from the dead. Following a disappointing summer of 2008, in which the 'worst ever' Arctic ice scenarios prophesied at the start of the year failed...
The Silly-Season’s Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot
Explorer Lewis Pugh, self-proclaimed 'Voice of the Arctic' took a break from cold-water swimming to try to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole to raise awareness of himself the shrinking Arctic ice mass: There is one side of me that really hopes I can...