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.
Posted in General |
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
Click to continue »
Posted in General |
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
Click to continue »
Posted in General |
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
Click to continue »
Posted in General |
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
Click to continue »
Posted in General |
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This books views Earth in a single context. The events that we observe in our narrow framework of reference do not give signs of changes that happen at a international scale. Al Gores book is brilliant. It is rare that a politician sees the want to heal an environment that is being destroyed by its inhabitants. Gore not just describes the causes of Global Warming, Ozone depletion, deforestation, incorrect irrigation, but besides delves into the evils that are corporations swaying the views of high ranking officials to turn the other cheek towards the environment
Posted in Book Reviews |
Weathering the Storm: Tornadoes, Television, and Turmoil
Weathering the Storm: Tornadoes, Television, and Turmoil – Review
I have not widely read the book as yet but I would like the opportunity to relate how Mr. England’s reputation is in Oklahoma. I worked in the railroad industry for 15 years in Oklahoma which is deeply affected by weather extremes. Our supervisors commonly used to tell us to watch Gary England for weather updates as his was the best in the state. Mr. England never failed us.
Posted in Book Reviews |
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations – Review
Never has one work tied together so much world history with the geologic and geographical weather record to create such a making case for the control of El Nino, the "christmas child." Reading this book became me much more aware of the subtle, force of nature working "behind the scenes" The author considered my interest throughout and eventually left me seriously contemplating other world events that must also have been influenced by El Nino and La Nina.
Posted in Book Reviews |
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
and probably the greatest book I’ve widely read so far on climate change. 200 short pages packed with highly important information from a managing authority in the field. Full of illuminating facts and strong arguments why we need to act now. This is not a feel noble book, although the author goes to stay upbeat by stressing the certain side results of currently fighting climate change (sustainable growth and a cleaner, safer, quieter and more bio-diverse planet). Highly readable, so no excuse any more to be un- (or dis)informed about the describing test of our times.
Posted in Book Reviews |
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
Brilliant book. Finally, someone had the courage to speak out against the Climate-Nazi’s. As a geologist, he explains clearly and thoughtfully, why at this point if Earth’s history is not the end-all, be-all of the climate we should expect. Ice caps have barely existed on our planet for twenty per cents of its complete history! Hope there are others who are willing to speak out against the climate police…
Posted in Book Reviews |
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know – Review
What are climate skeptics skeptical about? Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr. do not doubt that manmade global warming is naturally occurring, in fact, they are skeptical about claims that the global warming of the past 50 years is entirely or predominantly due to open cycles. Early in their recent book, Climate of Extremes, they counter these claims with evidence that the directly observed warming, while not entirely manmade, has the fingerprints of manmade global warming. Click to continue »
Posted in Book Reviews |
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
One of the major issues facing the world right now is how to deal with the results of wider-spread industrialization. As more and more nations make first-world standards, the demand for free transportation, particularly in the model of automobiles, will rise. We’ve eventually reached 1 billion cars already, and we’re currently looking at the very genuine possibility of 2 billion in a surprisingly brief time. Click to continue »
Posted in Book Reviews |
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
After eventually finishing this book, I deeply felt less in tune about my stance on global warming. The pictures and ideas were great, but totally unrealistic for the average person. I think mainly people are getting to see this book and think what I previously thought when I first finally saw it “This has to be a joke!!”. Just the front cover alone usually made me doubt the significance of this title. The potential reality of global warming is more or less a crock, and it’s a thirty year cycle anyways. Click to continue »
Posted in Book Reviews |
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
As most supporters of Art Bell and Whitley Strieber know, this is the book that partly inspired Roland Emmerich to write and direct The Day After Tomorrow. For that reason alone it is a must widely read for any disaster movie/novel fanatic. Bell and Strieber use a code of myth interpretation, amatuer and/or pseudo-science speculation and fictional production of the actual seemingly prophesied event to educate/scare the reader with their theory that a single and quite massive ’superstorm’ might bring about either a recent ice age or universal flood. Click to continue »
Posted in Book Reviews |
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
Having widely read some of the research by Henrick Svensmark’s team, I impatiently awaited this book. It explains in terms accessible to the intellectual layman how cosmic rays give to minimal level cloud formation. It expounds a most plausible explanation for the current warming trend. I was more than amply rewarded as Mr. Calder’s excellent writing takes a extremely complicated subject and patiently explains its most major features. Click to continue »
Posted in Book Reviews |
