Peter Sinclair from the Climate Denial Crock of the Week blog has been doing some great work lately by interviewing several experts on Arctic sea ice (like Jennifer Francis for instance). Not to imply that he didn't do great work before that. :-)
Here's another interview Peter conducted with Mike McCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC:
I don't know about the ice breaker stuff, but hey, every little bit helps.
I also recommend this video with footage from a talk McCracken held 30 years ago at Sandia Lab, called Global Warming: What We Knew in 82:
Neven,
I am visiting your blog now for more then a half year.
Threads are presented with clear charts and succinct text.
It does help me a lot in my study of climate science.
Thanks!
Posted by: Pieter | October 16, 2012 at 22:32
I watched both video’s with sorrow. If people like Revelle and McCracken promoted this knowledge even in the sixties and eighties, it makes clear that mainstream western society traded insight for greed.
On the economic side, I don’t like to put all the blame for worldwide inequality on the first industrialised societies. But on the ecological side, it is clear there is a very large responsibility.
I pity those who carry no blame and mostly are unaware of what’s coming their way.
We knew…
Personally I had a hunch too. Being a young student in high school I remember postulating ’…40 years left…’ in biology and chemistry classes. I had vague info on the Club of Rome report then (but not much spirit).
Hélas, I never got much more active than being member of a nature conservation institute. During these 40 years, I’ve taken a greedy share too…
Posted by: Werther | October 16, 2012 at 22:41
Skeptical science has a new article discussing the role of the August storm in the 2012 minimum:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/2012-arctic-storm.html
Posted by: idunno | October 18, 2012 at 14:38