Category Archives: Oceans

Sea Ice & Sea Shanties

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Clive Best

The National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDIC) publishes the extent of daily Sea Ice coverage for both the Arctic and Antarctic. These are derived from  from meteorological satellite images. Often you see more alarming plots of  rapidly disappearing Sea Ice … Continue reading →

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Oxygen – provider of life.

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Clive Best

Why does the air contain oxygen and where did it all originally come from? A new book ‘OXYGEN’ by Donald Canfield helps explain. No animal life from insects to fish to humans could  have evolved or survive before oxygen first appeared … Continue reading →

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Do clouds control climate?

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Clive Best

Clouds have a net average cooling effect on the earth’s climate. Climate models assume that changes in cloud cover are a feedback response to CO2 warming. Is this assumption valid? Following a study with Euan Mearns showing a strong correlation in … Continue reading →

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