[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.] Back in July 2012 the global news media went very big on a story on the Melting of Greenland. The original BBC Greenland Melting story I got involved in a discussion on twitter about it, with lots […]
Mark Brandon • December 23, 2016 It’s been quite a year in the Arctic. Over the winter 2015/6 we had the strongest and coldest Arctic polar vortex of the last 68 years. This contributed to a low maximum in Arctic sea ice extent. At that stage only the locals and the scientists were looking, and I […]
Mark Brandon, The Open University You never forget the first time you see an iceberg. The horizon of a ship at sea is a two dimensional space and to see a three dimensional piece of ice appear in the ocean is quite something. But, in truth, the first iceberg you see is likely to be […]
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Mark Brandon • January 8, 2013 This post starts with that carboncounter_ fellow. He tweeted last night: https://twitter.com/CarbonCounter_/status/288423035533414400 …continue reading → Posted in twitter. Tags: computer, personal, trivial on January 8, 2013 by Mark Brandon.
There is a lot happening at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet as summer progresses, and the MODIS sensor on the TERRA and AQUA satellites is a wonderful way to observe it. I noticed the other day (8 July 2015) this beautiful image of fast ice breaking out of a Fjord on the east […]
Mark Brandon • March 26, 2015 I was enjoying my polar books the other night and came across a quote attributed to everyone’s favourite humanitarian polar explorer and scientist, Fridtjof Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen, 1915, from the George Grantham Bain Collection If I were not a Norwegian, I would be an Englishman rather than belong to […]
I was enjoying my polar books the other night and came across a quote attributed to everyone’s favourite humanitarian polar explorer and scientist, Fridtjof Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen, 1915, from the George Grantham Bain Collection If I were not a Norwegian, I would be an Englishman rather than belong to any other nation Nansen is quoted […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made more than a third of a million images both public domain and searchable online. This is one of my current favourites: An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay by William Bradford and painted in 1871. An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay […]
Mark Brandon • March 11, 2014 It’s very common to hear people harking back to the time when everything was apparently “better”. Before the planet was “ruined”, before anthropogenic climate change kicked in, and when everybody treated each other with respect. Of course I don’t hold that view. Polar exploration had a golden age of […]
Mark Brandon • February 25, 2015 Last week I enjoyed an Inaugural lecture by Professor Martin Siegert of Imperial College. Inaugural Lectures are a big deal: Imperial’s Inaugural Lecture series provides a platform to showcase and celebrate the College’s new professors. The inaugural lecture provides official recognition and celebration of the academic’s promotion to professor. […]
Last week the Royal Society (UK), and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a good PDF booklet called Climate Change: Evidence & Causes. In the words of the US NAS “Climate Change makes clear what is well-established and where understanding is still developing. It echoes and builds upon the long history of climate-related work […]
Navigation charts in Antarctica may not be as good as you think. It makes sailing in those regions a little more exciting than you could hope. Here is an example. The coastline of Rothschild Island just to the west of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The navigation chart says the coastline location could be 5 miles in […]
Mark Brandon • July 24, 2017 I thought it was time to look at the sea ice data as the summer Arctic melt proceeds. The image below shows the mean sea ice extent 1989-93 on 22 July, the sea ice extent 22 July 2017, and the difference between the two data sets. Reds imply less […]