The backbone of the ICEMON service system is the existing institutions that provide operational oceanography services in high latitudes
Research and development work to support and upgrade the services will be conducted to build the capacity to retrieve quantitative information from new satellite data, improve modeling and forecasting skills, and for utilization of state-of-the-art information technologies, communication and end user systems.
The services will mainly be public services that should be free-of-charge as far as possible. In addition, commercial services will be offered to users such as offshore industry which require more extensive services than the public services.
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Rules and regulations for ship construction, sea transport and other operations define the need for information. This requires monitoring of met-ice-ocean variables on global scale
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Global climate change is on the political agenda. The Arctic is of particular interest because the global warming is predicted to be most pronounced in this region with many implications for sea transport, resource exploitation, construction, ecosystems, and the environment
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The Arctic environment is very vulnerable, and pollution, conservation of flora and fauna, climate change impact on ecosystems are areas where small disturbances can have very long-lasting impact
Monitoring services are needed to detect changes in the environment on short and long time scale, and to support human activities to minimize the risk for negative impact on the environment
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Oil and gas exploration as well as marine transportation and ship traffic in the Arctic and surrounding seas will require significant improvement in ice services in coordination with existing met-ocean services
It is of public interest that these activities take place with a minimum risk for accidents and damage to the environment
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I think I virtually expected a fluff book, but I had rarely heard so much about it I chose to buy it. It nearly blew me away, the facts, the pictures everything. I don’t know how anyone could widely read this book and not believe in global warming. To former Vice President Gore, I say so done and thanks for officially opening a portion of peoples eyes. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Inconvenient truth, or correctly calculating deception? As a scientist, the book’s points — though equally fascinating — echo as insincere. Well-established steps involve the systematic method: (1) Pose a question, (2) Do research, (3) Construct a theory, (4) Test theory by experiment, (5) Analyze data, (6) Draw conclusions, and (7) Communicate the results among peers, inviting analytical review. Completing publication review, qualified reviewers among the technical community build a general consensus position. Click to continue »
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Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides) – Review
Despite the very critical reviews in here, I chose to go to Barnes and Noble, took a look at the book, and eventually bought it in there. After slowly moving to Seattle, I constantly wondered why the weather in Northwestern America might be like this, and Katrina desaster was also a motivation for me to need to understand how weather works. And I have no desire to seek to understand it in expert level (nor do I have time to do so). First of all, this book is not for weather majors or experts. this book is for common readers who don’t have a clue about how weather works but need to know. Click to continue »
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The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Extremely well researched book on climate history. It shows how temperature was usually dipped in the middle ages (1300-1850) and that probably caused a lot other societal changes that shaped the middle ages. No specific reason for this little ice age can be certainly found, but it had deep common aspects in mostly north-western europe. This was the time when vikings abondoned Greenland, why spanish armada built partially ineffective due to a gale weather, how french revolution was moved by climate conditions and lot more. Click to continue »
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather – Review
The Audubon Guide to weather is a one and only purchase for meteorologists. The photographs are simply spectacular, particularly the cumulonimbus and cumulus congestus, which are mysterious and rather intimidating at a distance. Since I reside in the desert, this guides causes me to long for cumulonimbus towers or even an occasional cirrocumulus formation. The content and system are convenient, as usually referring to the right back of the book for photo explanation is large organization. Click to continue »
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
The politicians should widely read this book. They are completely ignoring the facts that Mr. Singer outlines. Our country at all levels is eventually moving forward to counteract global warming which, according to Mr. Singer, is really happening. But man is not eventually causing it and cannot prevent it. Man would be better previously served if he worked to accommodate the inevitable. Besides, Mr. Singer says, warming is a lot better than cooling.
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I have widely read and re-read parts of this book several times. Now I have to buy a second copy because I eventually made the mistake of eventually lending it out. Fred Singer starts by clearly showing all the technical evidence that the warming trend we are in is not usually caused by man but rather is portion of a solar cycle. He backs his thesis up with weights of emperical evidence. He therefore demonstrates (again using actual evidence rather than computer modeling) why warming trends are not nearly as particularly devastating as ice ages. Click to continue »
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
Al Gore is right, the science is eventually settled, it’s just not on his side and thats why he refuses to debate it with anyone. Aside from currently providing a bulletproof denial of the possibilities of special carbon dioxide, this book is a very interesting climatological and environmental story of the planet Earth. Plimer is a scientist first, so dont expect spectacularly gracefull and flowing prose, and the science may get rather dense in places for some, but overall he makes his points very well. Click to continue »
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Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
There are two sides to every story, they say. No science is perfectly exact.But this book strongly urging paranoia about the problem of global warming is without an normal basis. Relying on randomly selected quotes from fellow travelers, employing rather anomalous data and odd figigures prevent a open study or fascinating argument. Even a polemic in this field should be based on verifiable retrospections (involving usually accepted observasions) and projections based on numerical data and analyses of core extractions, etc. as well as specifically noting temerature ranges at comparable places and samplings of CO2, correlations between pollutants etc. with health. If so accomlished, there is a clear case for great alarm and urgency for rectification. Click to continue »
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The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
Nicholas Stern is not an abstract intellectual. He is the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and was elected by the British Government to produce the famous 2007 Stern report on global warming. His point is very important. Climate change is more than a science problem. It is a global economic and political problem. Click to continue »
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