June 2013
One Change Editorial note: the below blog was written by Sasha Pearson, age 13 and the daughter of ICCI founder and director Pam Pearson. Sasha has often attended climate conferences and negotiations,...
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Tragedy in the Himalayas A tragedy occurred last month in the mountainous regions of northern India, western Nepal and Tibet, when monsoon rains hit unexpectedly early and hard. Rainfall from June...
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The Cryosphere Ice Watch Every year about this time, my thoughts become distinctly maudlin. For much of human history and in many cultures still today, the death watch was a staple of the end of human...
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An “Interpretation for the Rest of Us” of the Latest IPCC Report – Cryosphere Sections On September 27, Working Group 1 (WG1) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Summary...
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Message from the Cryosphere The On Thin Ice report, co-produced by ICCI and the World Bank, is a message of caution, and of hope. Caution because rapid changes in the earth’s regions of snow and ice –...
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For the December IceBlog, below is the prepared statement from ICCI Director Pam Pearson to the environment and foreign ministers gathered at COP-19 in Warsaw on November 21 for the ”Climate and Clean...
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Why The President Should Say “No” to Keystone The following is taken from a letter sent to President Barack Obama by ICCI founder and Executive Director Pam Pearson, urging the President to deny...
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The Cryosphere Imperative: Why Paris 2015 Must Succeed ICCI in coming months will focus much of its resources on raising the level of ambition for the Paris 2015 climate change agreement, from the...
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Irreversible Melting on Antarctica Media Event at SB-40 IRREVERSIBLE MELTING ON ANTARCTICA: OBSERVATIONS AND PROJECTIONS RECENT SCIENCE AND NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE PAPERS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR...
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Open Burning and the Arctic: An Issue of Resilience By Gail Stevenson, Russia Program Manager Open burning in northern Eurasia is a significant source of black carbon (BC) to the Arctic lower...
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Track Zero: Making Two (Cryosphere: Five!) Degrees Real In Copenhagen in 2009, one of the few victories was a commitment by global leaders to the “two degree goal”: holding the rise in temperature to...
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Lima: Just a Start The annual Framework Climate Convention negotiations will take place from December 1-12 in Lima, Peru. ICCI as always will be there to make certain that delegates hear the latest...
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December 2014
The below remarks are taken from the opening remarks by ICCI Director and Founder Pam Pearson at ICCI’s December 11 UNFCCC side event at COP-20 in Lima, Peru. Cryosphere. ICCI sometimes gets a hard...
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Conservation Agriculture: Conserving Cryosphere “The soil does not belong to me, it belongs to every living thing on this planet.” Conservation agriculture pioneer and author Carlos Crovetto, Chequen...
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March 2015
Summer Forecast: Hot, with Frequent Fires Sometimes ICCI gets the question of how open field and forest burning, seeming quite far from the Arctic or other regions, can have such an impact at higher...
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The “Road to Paris” Goes through Cryosphere With the Bonn UNFCCC climate negotiations taking place next month, the phrase “road to Paris” is the theme of countless policy forums and media coverage....
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Explaining Climate: What Rockström Said! Sometimes in the struggle to convey the seriousness and, above all, the immediacy of the threat of climate change, one runs across a speaker or writer that...
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What Happens in the Arctic…. As world leaders, including President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and a number of foreign ministers, head to Alaska this weekend to discuss the threat of climate...
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Fire in the Fields – “Burning” the Cryosphere “Open burning” refers to a common agricultural practice found today throughout the world: the regular and periodic burning of lands, supposedly cheaply and...
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“These people know nothing! Nothing!” This outburst from an eminent Antarctic researcher was as unexpected for me as it was emphatic. It came just outside a seminar during one of the climate...
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