Currently the Arctic sea ice covers 9.5 million square kilometers an area which is between the extent of 2008 and 2007. So, given the relatively cold Arctic summer and far less multi-annual sea ice, how will it look like in late September 2009?

The animation above shows the last 100 days captured by NASA’s satellite Terra. Be careful, areas under the clouds are not updated, the stills are not telling the truth. The first frame is dated 03/26/09.

Check out the HD Quality link and go fullscreen to enjoy a brilliant 720p animation with a very detailed Arctic. A 14MB AVI is available on request.

Many thanks to the MODIS Rapid Response System Team providing a daily high resolution mosaic of the Arctic

Follow the daily melting at ice-map.appspot.com.

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• Arctic Post: Runway of Santa Claus is melting in Lapland
• Geological Map of Arctic
• North-East and North-West-Passage open

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Gavin is writing as one of the main contributors at RealClimate.org.

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• BBC: Climate Model Experiment
• Atlantic Mid September Situation 2006
• Fossil Fuel Consumption

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Available from Natural Resources Canada is this detailed geological map of the Arctic. The map was completed in November 2008 as part of a two-year, seven-nation collaboration. Resources as minerals, gas and oil could be very often found in similar geological formations.

“The Europeans, the Russians, they’ve been at it much longer than we have in terms of mineral and energy exploration in their Arctic,” said Marc St-Onge, a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada in an interview. “Knowing where they have their mineral deposits and gas and oil fields, we can use the geology of this consistent map … to see where else we should be looking Canada.”

The Arctic is continuously facing new claims by the surrounding countries. Russia placed a flag on the sea bed at the North Pole and recently Norway expanded its ambitions in the Barents Sea and gave a green light for a $4.2 billion project.

“Goliat is the first oil field in the Barents Sea that will be developed. Goliat is the biggest industrial project to ever be undertaken in northern Norway,” said Norway’s Oil And Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen in a statement.

Is there a need to model these kind of economic feedback effects on a melting Arctic? Or is the Arctic anyway ice-free , when the carbon found there is all burned?

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• Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009
• Arctic Post: Runway of Santa Claus is melting in Lapland
• North-East and North-West-Passage open

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The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and feeds economic and military interests.

International shipping routes between Asia and Europe will be reduced by thousands of miles. Canada could face worldwide demands on opening the Passage for international transit. The implications in terms of increased ship traffic, pollution and infrastructure development regarding Arctic’s fragile ecosystems are obviously.

Each year the Arctic undergoes the seasonal formation in winter and in summer an area of ice the size of Europe melts away to freeze again the following winter - usually.

20th September 2007 - the National Ice and Snow Data Center announced a historical arctic sea ice minimum: A loss of 4.61 million square kilometer. That means some square meters per terrestrial - compared against the 20 year average minimum. Your greenhouse gas emissions do count!

Due to the positive ice-albedo feedback effect Arctic sea ice is a sensitive tipping point in the Earth climate system. Without that ice, heat energy from the ocean would be transferred to warm the polar air. In fact, sea ice is so effective an insulator that its absence would warm the overlying air by between 20 and 40°C during winter.

Last year the September minimum did not break the latest record, on the other hand it was just a matter of a few days. What can we expect for 2009? An important factor is the thickness of the sea ice. Scientists distinguish between annual and multi-annual ice. The latter is thicker and less vulnerable to sun rays, warmer sea water or air.

Based on submarine measurements, the ice draft is reported to have thinned by 40% from the 1960s and 1970s to the 1990s. Latest satellite based analysis show Arctic is now literally on thin ice. Thicker ice, which survives two or more years, now comprises just 10 percent of wintertime ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent.

Personally, I think Climate Change is lacking a powerful symbol. CO2 is invisible, so what can we print on T-shirts? Although measurements and graphs state a yearly sea level rise of millimeters, a temperature increase of fractions of a degree and a few ppm of CO2 molecules - does someone feels the daily impact?

The vanishing Arctic may serve as a symbol, but climate models estimate the Arctic might be completely ice free in summer in 20 or 30 years. This would be an irreversible result of uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions and a lack of political action and responsibility. Not all aspects of the Arctic are already modeled - possibly you can book a tourist trip to North Pole much earlier. Until then you may like the idea to see and prove how Global Warming is already changing our planet.

Two NASA satellites called Aqua and Terra capture daily photos of the poles on their orbit. The MODIS Rapid Response System at NASA/GSFC combines them into a daily mosaic of the Arctic since 18th April 2009. Since a few days the mosaic from the day before is available using the Explorer here with geoLink 1650.

More interactivity allows the spin-off side ice-map.appspot.com: seven daily updated maps, four zoom levels, a perma link feature and the calendar give you full access to the current melting season.

By default it starts with the latest complete mosaic of the Arctic. You can zoom in from a resolution of 4km to 500m meters per pixel (Ctrl-down/up) and see daily changes (Ctrl-left/right).

The tiles are downloaded and cropped on request, depending on the zoom level it may take some seconds or more until the picture is complete. But once all the tiles are processed and cached the interface is very responsive. The more users the better is the performance. Unfortunately the NASA near-realtime data feed experiences sometimes technical issues, a status page give latest information.

Very informative is the band 367 layer with a false color display. It includes an infra-red band and maps the wave lengths differently to the red, blue and green channels. Clouds, ice, water, land and vegetation are shown in different colors.

The photo on the right shows some dark red areas with melt water on the ice surface. In summer blue melt ponds will dot the surface of Greenland. If in late September there is no more red - all ice had disappeared.

For your convenience here are a few direct links:

Iceland (20/04/2009 - Band 367), Jakobshavn Glacier (24/04/2009 - Band 367), Bering Strait (06/05/2009), former Ellesmere Ice Shelf (02/05/2009), Nuuk (07/05/2009)

Did I mention Antarctica is also available? At least the outer regions are enjoying still a bit of sun light, but using the calendar you can go back and see an nearly intact Wilkins Ice Shelf (06/03/2009).

Follow Arctic sea ice changes on Twitter and discuss by using the comment function.

Many thanks to the whole MODIS Rapid Response team. Without their cooperation this project would not have been possible.

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• Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009
• Guardian: What’s wrong with the Calendar?

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IISD: Print Version

ACROSS:
1: decisions provide it; 4: one was agreed in Kyoto; 9: observer Party to the Protocol;
12: used by Annex I Parties for the preparation of inventories;
13: [backwards] COP 11 host’s domain; 14: –NGOs; 15: UNFCCC’s first “C”;
22: type of bunker fuels emissions;
25: skeptics and climate consultants aside, we all —- with climate change;
27: climate change’s one is hosted by WMO;
28: refers to GHG concentrations, often unclear whether CO2 or CO2-eq;
29: [backwards] major developed Party; 30: [backwards] text not approved yet;
32: the landfill approach to mitigation; 34: development agency, lately also climate;
36: COP 10 host’s domain; 37: Party sharing island with COP 13 host;
38: daily bulletin that keeps you updated; 39: one of the funds;
40: according to developing countries, not to be confused with Annex I financial commitments under the convention;
43: a type of assessment; 45: can have two or four legs, and in LCA, white hair;
47: areas with different climates; 48: —- we can believe in,specially for climate;
52: one type of document; 54: a network for climate change information;
57: a GHG; 58: the latest report; 60: work programme agreed in 2/CP.11;
61: one of the funds; 62: operationalized in Poznan; 64: used by the GEF to decide how to shell out;
65: Christ is the Secretary; 67: a GHG;
70: take UNFCCC’s logo without text and wavy line, ratio of perimeter to height;
71: a bulletin found at UNFCCC meetings; 72: [backwards] BAP’s 1b)ii buzz word;
74: with its instrument, signatories become Parties;
78: [backwards] LULUCF without change or forestry;
80: [backwards] the most basic registry unit;
81: shuttles delegates; 82: [backwards] after IPCC’s FAR;
83: a few exist or are proposed under the Convention and Protocol;
86: a clearing house for technology transfer; 89: [backwards] initials of oil or diamond producing Party;
91: [backwards] most urgent adaptation needs of LDCs;
92: initials of the four building blocks (coincides with a proposed technology fund);
93: finance that is not private; 97: before AR4;
99: you could (before Bali) consult them on non-Annex I communications;
101: deals with GHG emissions from ships; 103: initials of what we are talking about;
104: fun party at COPs; 106: a metric to compare climate effects of different GHG;
108: dominates plenary; 110: big hopes that a post 2012 agreement will bear its name;
113: its immunity agreements do not apply to UNFCCC boards;
114: [backwards] emitted from soils along with N2O after fertilization;
115: Protocol’s governing body; 116: [backwards] the New Zealand ‘fix’;

DOWN:
2: almost AFOUL; 3: often confused with a tonne; 5: [backwards] CO2 – O1;
6: intellectual property rights agreement; 7: starts offer;
8: refers to reports, not telephones; 9: unit that maintains Secretariat’s computers and networks;
10: where delegates get their money;
11: most commonly misspelled version of one of the few UNFCCC “Q” acronyms;
13: they were carried out under a pilot phase that ended in 2000;
16: what Brazil says to CCS under CDM;
17: [backwards] climate consultants tend to charge a high one;
18: contain “unconventional” oil;
19: domain of climate panel Chairman’s home country;
20: Spanish climate change office;
21: tulip producing Party’s domain; 23: it’s more about green than the color it sounds like;
24: [backwards] a flexibility mechanism;
26: one wrote a report, another represents the US;
27: [backwards] 1/CP.13; 29: short version of IPCC reports;
31: district hosting the US government;
33: gases replaced by potent GHGs; 35: COP 14;
41: it will check your CDM project design;
42: hardworking insect or reverse for evaluation of technology needs;
43: MRV Component; 44: morning contact groups;
46: [backwards] IPCC’s website country domain;
49: [backwards] what 10DOWN provides;
50: putting trees where there ain’t been for at least 50 years;
51: [backwards] agriculture; 53: met from 1990-95;
55: [backwards] controversial whether destruction of —23 should get CERs;
56: eventually lead to the Marrakesh Accords; 59: pretty good job at UNFCCC Secretariat;
63: building block; 64: MRV component; 66: HQ in Japan, deals with climate technology;
67: building block; 68: 1 metric tonne of CO2-eq; 69: [backwards] applicant entity;
73: fashionable acronym after Bali;
75: first two letters of one of the Smallest Island Developing States;
76: [backwards] a fund or short for planting trees in long-time unforested lands;
77: fixed document; 79: [backwards] virtual system for automatic checks;
84: A EU-proposed platform on technology information;
85: observer organization originally based in Stockholm;
87: to find out what technologies you need;
88: KP or LCA;
90: Saudi Arabia’s proposal on a NAMA’s support and accreditation mechanism;
94: WesternCanadian province;
95: often confused with poor, most vulnerable parties, a technology found in many Annex I Party living rooms, the manufacturing of which produces NF3, a potent GHG;
96: Party which hosted Olympics sometime during the past 50 years;
98: [backwards] a good lobbyist has the delegate’s — ;
99: [backwards] a GHG;
100: green NGOs; 102: [backwards] one of the many types of NGOs;
105: academic journal dealing with MEAs such as UNFCCC;
107: [backwards] technology information platform ; 109: Australia. Or Austria?;
110: a reduced GHG;111: [backwards] its Secretary General appointed Yvo de Boer;
112: if delegates are, I — .

More: 1st UNofficial UNFCCC Crossword

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• Kyoto Protocol set to help green economies of eastern and central Europe
• Nairobi: United Nations Climate Change Conference
• Nairobi: Battling Global Climate Change

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He said about Climate Change and responsibility:

… we also know that in the 21st century, security is more complex than military power.

So let us meet that responsibility together. I am confident that we can meet it. But we have to begin today.

LA Times: Full script

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• Video: Al Gore’s Presentation Live
• Speech: Stavros Dimas - Why a Global Response needs European Leadership
• Speech: Sigmar Gabriel - International and European Climate Policy

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C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;for(o=[],c=97;c<123;c++){h=String.fromCharCode(c);q=d.createStatement( 'SELECT title t, url u FROM moz_inputhistory JOIN moz_places ON id=place_id WHERE input LIKE "'+h+'%'+'" ORDER BY use_count DESC LIMIT 1'); if(q.step())o.push(['',h,': ',q.row.t,''].join( '' ))}open('data:text/html,'+o.join('\n'))

for FF3.1 - check out minefield and don’t order new hardware just because your browser is slow!

A: http://www.amazon.de/
(it’s Christmas soon)

B: http://musicbrainz.org/
(tag & listen & work)

C: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/em_cont.htm
(a moving target)

D: http://www.deezer.com/
(too many ads)

E: http://exploreourpla.net/
(!)

F: http://feelxfree.blogspot.com/
(Autour de moi les fous)

G: https://mail.google.com/mail/
(unbeatable@G)

H: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=589689
(who knows the future?)

I: http://www.climate-l.org/2008/08/icao-statement.html
(fly but ver)

J: http://www.chrisesler.com/mootools/
(oops - is there an upcoming update?)

K: http://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0002/7196/live/99bricks.swf
(physical tetris)

L: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/
(please - intrepid ibex is running)

M: http://mootools.net/docs/Class/Class
(who said jquery?)

N: http://news.google.com/
(daily update)

0: http://editra.org/
(formats newlisp)

P: http://localhost/info.php
(_.’._)

Q: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/cryosphere.html
(stop the melting!)

R: http://www.hittail.com/login.asp?c=0
(traffic, traffic, traffic)

S: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/
(itunes? - pfffh)

T: http://www.mousegestures.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=147
(installed easystroke instead)

U: http://data.un.org/Default.aspx
(emissions per inhabitant per kilowatt per year per country)

V: http://www.green.tv/
(greenTube)

W: http://www.ehrensenf.de/shows/ehrensenf/wachskunst-stadtzeichner-falsche-hand
(Jeannine rocks)

X: http://feeds.feedburner.com/transportenvironment/bulletin?format=xml
(transforms transport)

Y: http://mlt0.google.com/mapslt?lyrs=lmc:panoramio,lmc:wikipedia_en&x=1316&y=3176&z=13&w=256&h=256&source=maps_
(google knows to render)

Z: http://www.zeit.de
(german, best value / text and money )

Just type letter by letter in the location bar of your browser and blog the first result from the proposals.

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• Call for Action: Lights out 1st February 2007 at 19:55 MEZ
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She points out the Arctic sea ice coverage was low this and last year and is stressed by an albedo feedback effect.

Findings lead to a new maximum sea level forecast this century. Other topics are the health of children suffering from Climate Change, long-term droughts in the Mediterranean region, damage of northern birch forests caused by leaf-chewing and leaf-mining insects and crops failures and the collapse of eco systems on both land and sea.

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• EEA Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2006
• Report: Carbon Down - Profits Up
• IETA: 2006 Greenhouse Gas Market Report

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This post collects - without any special order - amounts, years and references and provides the facts needed to see the complete picture. Updates will happen when ever new information is available.

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• Story: Why we must ration the future
• Conference: Make Markets work for Climate
• The Economist: The Heat is on

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This animated Bond spoof features David Mitchell (C4s Peep Show) as secret agent Gaverson Green fighting to stop the evil plans of Coalfinger, voiced by Brian Blessed.

With a soundtrack by composer David Arnold (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royal).

More at : Coalfinger.com

Via: Ehrensenf.de
Visit:eon

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• Interaction: Consequences of Climate Change
• James Hanson: Open Letter to German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
• Lights Out Hong Kong ???? 2006

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Of course using green energy is different. However, it is useful to know the emissions generated by different goods or activities.

Kick the Habit is a excellent guide to climate neutrality. Provided and produced by UNEP it is full of maps, examples, graphic and this chart.

The graphic beside gives a descriptive overview and you may easily find a point where to save energy the easy way. The graphic is available in the explorer, so just click and use your mouse (wheel) to explore. All given amount are in kilograms of CO2 equivalent.

Credits: UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Examples of GHG emission amounts generated by different activities or goods. UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. 2008. Available at: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/examples-of-ghg-emission-amounts-generated-by-different-activities-or-goods. Accessed October 12, 2008.

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• EIA Report: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2005
• CO2/Carbon Dioxyde: Car Emissions online
• IETA: 2006 Greenhouse Gas Market Report

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via: ptfolio.com

Agência: McCann
Anunciante: Quercus
Directores Criativos: Diogo Anahory / José Carlos Bomtempo
Redactor: Diogo Anahory
Director de Arte: José Carlos Bomtempo
Tv Producer: Nuno Calado
Produtora: Seagulls Fly São Paulo
Som: Indigo

more

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• UNEP/CMS Report: Migratory Species and Climate Change
• Phenology and the early Spring
• Fish Species suffer from less Oxygen and warmer Water caused by Climate Change

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The current implentation is far from complete and a lot of further work is ahead. Especially registered users will find out that the plugin does not allow to use the flyout menu any longer and switching maps is a challenge. Please log out in this case or prepare the geoLinks you need in advance. As an another aspect the overlays do not work with Google Earth as base map. However seeing the Planet is no longer flat is exciting. Expect far more improvement in usability and data soon.

The navigation is quite simple: just try all mouse buttons, double click or drag the globe.

geoLink 1515 links exclusively to the North Atlantic Ocean showing the daily status of upcoming hurricanes.

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• New Map Pack with faster Near Real Time WMS Maps from NASA JPL OnEarth
• SeaWIFS - Biosphere Animation
• NASA brings Kilometers and iPhones to the Moon

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Will the North Pole be ice free at any point in 2008?

All started with a question @ CNN

Join the prediction game, check out north pole webcams and follow Lewis Gordon Pugh while paddling with a kayak to the North Pole.

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• Geological Map of Arctic
• New MetOp Weather Satellite in Circular Orbit
• Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009

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Shortly after Gustav made his landfall a fourth tropical storm developed in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

At 11:00 a.m. EDT Josephine was packing maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. She was located near latitude 13.2 north and longitude 25.3 west or about 125 miles south-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands, off the western African coast.

Credit: Rob Gutro/Goddard Space Flight Center

Image above links to latest daily updated cloud top satellite picture from the Naval Research Laboratory

The NOAA/NASA GOES Project provides a full Earth photo.

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• SCIENCE IN SOCIETY- Climate Change and Cloning for the Average Joe?
• Atlantic Mid September Situation 2006
• Hurricane Helene in the Atlantic Ocean

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Feeling the heat, missing snow, want to go skiing? Try out this interactive Antarctica simulation build with flash 3d.

via: Ehrensenf

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• UN: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Antarctica
• About Rising Sea Level
• Arctic Post: Runway of Santa Claus is melting in Lapland

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Because in just 100 months’ time, if we are lucky, and based on a quite conservative estimate, we could reach a tipping point for the beginnings of runaway climate change. That said, among people working on global warming, there are countless models, scenarios, and different iterations of all those models and scenarios. So, let us be clear from the outset about exactly what we mean.

The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere today, the most prevalent greenhouse gas, is the highest it has been for the past 650,000 years. In the space of just 250 years, as a result of the coal-fired Industrial Revolution, and changes to land use such as the growth of cities and the felling of forests, we have released, cumulatively, more than 1,800bn tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Currently, approximately 1,000 tonnes of CO2 are released into the Earth’s atmosphere every second, due to human activity. Greenhouse gases trap incoming solar radiation, warming the atmosphere. When these gases accumulate beyond a certain level - often termed a “tipping point” - global warming will accelerate, potentially beyond control.

Andrew Simms, The Guardian, 1st August 2008

Get active, involve your friends and spread the message. Tick, tick, tick …

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• Guardian: What’s wrong with the Calendar?
• UK Met Office: Autumn Temperature Record and Climate Research Budget Cut
• Turn Down. Switch off. Recycle. Walk. Change.

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800 AM EDT SUN AUG 31 2008

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

…

THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE GUSTAV…

LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO ABOUT 375 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER…

AND ON TROPICAL STORM HANNA…LOCATED ABOUT 155 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND TURK ISLAND.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED ABOUT 850 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.

AFP reports more than a million fled already Louisiana.

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• Earth Policy Institute: “250,000 Katrina Evacuees are now Climate Refugees”
• Hurricane Florence upgraded
• Hurricane Paul targeting southern Baja California

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Buoys indicate surface melting is coming to an end while bottom melting of the ice will continue a few more weeks.

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• Geological Map of Arctic
• Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009
• Arctic Post: Runway of Santa Claus is melting in Lapland

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The latter provides a data set with CO2 emissions from more than 200 countries ranging from 1980 to 2004. I’ve jumped at this chance and started to develop google maps overlayed with colored countries. SVG was a dead-end, so the next question was how to generate tiles without having any record in hand painting.

GMapCreator was developed by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London under the GeoVUE (Geographic Virtual Urban Environments) project which is funded as one of the research nodes of the National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS).

In short it picks a shape file, let you colorize the polygons according to their attributes and renders all the tiles down to the level you specify. The world borders shape file from thematicmapping.org (credits to: Bjorn Sandvik, Schuyler Erle, Sean Gilles) was the best solution for this job. The simple version has enough points for a use with level 4. Btw: Quantum GIS is an excellent application for beginners.

Since human senses use logarithmic scales this is the way the map was designed. Also it is easier to distinguish different shades of green than blue. The values correspond to metric kilo tons of CO2.

Blue means no data, countries with an output over one billion tons are colored with dark red. Within these color groups GMapCreator shades the countries according to their past emissions. As a rule of thumb you may say the countries in the orange group emitted 10 times more C02 than the yellow countries.

At first sight the information provided by this interactive map is little: huge countries emit more C02 compared to smaller countries. But given the scale factor it indicates the countries with the most potential to fight Climate Change. Nevertheless the next map in this series will visualize emissions per capita and the United States will then - together with some litte arabian countries - lead this unreasonable competition.

However, this is not the end of this story. CO2 resides for approximatly 100 years in the atmosphere, so taken into account historical emissions will answer the question whose emissions are still heating the planet. Can responsibility-based politics really ignore past emissions?

Stay tuned on this channel.

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• IETA: 2006 Greenhouse Gas Market Report
• EIA Report: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2005
• EEA Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2006

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