Arctic Ice And Record-Warm March

The Weather Vane is prepared by Daniel Bezte, a teacher by profession with a B. A. (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the University of Winnipeg. Daniel has taught university-level classes in climate and weather and currently operates a computerized weather station at his home near Birds Hill Park, on 10 acres he plans

The Changing Arctic, Part 5

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station


The Changing Arctic — Part 4

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station

Arctic Melt To Cost Up To $24 Trillion By 2050

Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released Feb. 5. “Everybody around the world is going to bear these costs,” said Eban Goodstein, a resource economist at Bard



The Changing Arctic –Part 3

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station


The Changing Arctic, Part 2

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station

The Changing Arctic –Part 1

Ihinted at our next topic in the last article, and it is about the melting of the Arctic sea ice. I, along with a large number of weather scientists, agree that this is rapidly becoming the biggest weather story of our time. So I am going to take the next few articles to explore this


ACC Forum To Discuss Climate Change

David Barber used to be a skeptic. Barber has spent almost 30 years studying sea ice in the Arctic region. For the first 10 years he thought that changes he was observing in the ice, and the effects they had on the Arctic ecosystem, were as a result of natural variability. He was not convinced

Issued: Monday, February 23, 2009 Covering: February 25 –March 4

Last week we talked about arctic high pressure dominating the weather and it looks like the same thing will happen during this forecast period, at least during the first half. It is currently looking like a strong area of arctic high pressure will build southwards over Western Canada during this week. This region of high