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Knight Science Journalism Tracker Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment LiveScience: Arctic sea ice yo-yo done gone real low lately. Ah ha – Mother Jones has it too.

Looks like Wynne Parry at LiveScience might have the same habit I do – maybe she looks in rather frequently on the mesmerizing day by day oscillations in the slope of a graph one finds at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder. Such federal outfits as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA pay for it while the University of Colorado runs it. This year’s been weird. In late April the extent (not the volume, but the area) of Arctic ice reached a high for recent years – all the way up to the average for the years 1979-2000. I seem to recall a few bloggers of doubtful minds noting that the sea ice had recovered. The NSIDC site itself says nothing much c! an be read into its extent in winter and spring. It’s late summer that matters. It still does not matter much. But anyway – the area just took a jag. It plummeted to well below the same-time point [...]

Did you hear the one about the oyster-killing California Current? Big Media turn backs (but Climate Central already on it).

Maybe it’s like the Swiss Navy, the punchline for a joke. After all, what does Nicolas Gruber, a guy from Zurich, know about surfing in wet suits? Or the foggy breezes that, for one example. darned near obliterated some of the views of yesterday’s closing round of the US Open on a San Francisco golf course? How’d he even ever hear of the California Current that meanders down the West Coast, triggering upwelling of nutrient rich, cold water and feeding vast schools of fish, plankton, sea birds, and the nets of fishing boats? How, a reporter might ask, is he equipped to opine on such things?

But even at the landlocked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology he knows about such things because he’s an ocean biochemist. The team he leads reported in last week’s Science that an analysis of the trend in ocean chemistry, chiefly of carbonic acid levels rising as the atmosphere’s rising CO2 suffuses into the sea, coupled with the naturally lower-than-average pH in [...]

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