Petermann's Progress The huge ice island which calved from Petermann Glacier on August 4th was stuck in the mouth of Petermann Fjord for quite some time.  As I had suggested, it did not get into…

Petermann Ice Island - Now There Are twoPetermann Ice Island (2010) has now broken into two parts.   The smaller island is about 80 km2.  It is the thinner of the two and is likely to…

Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1 This is my first update to Arctic Ice September 2010. As the Arctic melt season draws to a close there are still a very few people writing about recovery. …

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, shows a team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The…

Arctic Ice September 2010 As I write these words - September 01 2010 - Arctic sea ice extent as reported by NSIDC and JAXA is not as low as I had expected it to be. image source: http://nsidc.org/…

Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #3 The NSIDC has just issued an update report for August - August 17, 2010North by NorthwestThe end of summer is approaching in the Arctic; temperatures are dropping…

Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #2 Since I last posted an update, many things have happened in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. In my last update - Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #1 - I noted that there…

Petermann Glacier Calving 2010 - Update Before I discuss the recent calving of the Petermann Glacier ice tongue, I want to give credit to the many scientists who were studying, predicting and…

The Anatomy Of A DiscoveryPetermann Glacier Ice Tongue Calving 2010 Science20.com is a science site. Now, I could blabber and bluster about how I once advised Margaret Thatcher1.  Which I did.…

Arctic Newsflash! Petermann Ice Tongue Loses Huge Chunk I have been watching the Petermann Glacier ice tongue for some time now. Here is what I wrote in  Arctic Ice July 2010 - Update #3:…