IT'S SNOW JOKE!

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/
The phrase 'Sudden Stratospheric Warming' event is worth googling, particularly at the moment. A change in the Arctic upper atmosphere may mean that we are in for a cold snap. The Met office blog is worth a visit. This has been discussed on the internet for a while, but it seems as though it might be about to happen, however there is still some uncertainty!

Drilling begins at lake hidden beneath Antarctic

A British research team in Antarctica has launched a long-awaited project to hunt for life in a lake hidden beneath the ice-sheet.  A team of 12 scientists and engineers has begun work at remote Lake Ellsworth.  They are using a high-pressure hose and sterilised water at near boiling point to blast a passage through more than two miles of ice. The aim is to analyse ice waters isolated for up to 500,000 years. 

The process of opening a bore-hole is expected to last five days and will be followed by a rapid sampling operation before the ice refreezes. 

Lake Ellsworth is one of several hundred lakes known to exist beneath the ice-sheet - its waters kept just above freezing temperature by the warmth of the rocks below and by pressure melting 

For more information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20682647

IS OUR WEATHER GETTING WORSE?

Hopefully this will be of the same calibre as the Channel 4 programmes on Eyjafjallajokull and the Haiti Earthquake.

'Is our weather getting worse?' should be really good for Y13 geography on Atmospheric Systems.

TUESDAY 11th DECEMBER 8pm ON CHANNEL 4

Are the strange events of 2012 a one-off or an ominous sign of climate change in action? How does the changing global climate affect the British weather and what can we expect in the future? Is our weather getting worse?

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CHASING ICE

The Daily Telegraph magazine today features an article about Glaciers and climate change. This is in advance of a film being released in UK cinemas on 14th December 

called 'Chasing Ice'. www.chasingice.co.uk