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Next Ice Age on hold

10 Jan ’12 | Posted by Henry in climate, glaciology, press| 0 comments

A study recently published in Nature Geoscience has suggested that due to current atmospheric concentrations of CO2, the next ice age will fail to materialise on time. The authors used past interglacials as analogies to the present, and by assuming that ice growth mainly responds to insolation and CO2 forcing predicted our current warm period would end [...]

The Greenland Ice Sheet

9 Dec ’11 | Posted by Henry in glaciology, press, research, the web| 0 comments

Off the back of the BBC’s Frozen Planet, Alun Hubbard asked me to create a website detailing the research him and his team are carrying out on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The site is now up on the university webpages at www.aber.ac.uk/greenland and encourage everyone to have a look. As well as presenting the various scientific projects, [...]

Snowfalls a thing of the past?

20 Dec ’10 | Posted by Henry in climate, press| 0 comments

…or so Charles Onians thought so in 2000. His article in The Independent reported that the increased temperatures observed during the 1990′s meant that snow would soon ‘disappear from our lives’. Although funny in hindsight, the article is not supported with any science, and really shows how the press warp the whole global warming debate [...]

ACC make the national press

23 Jul ’10 | Posted by Henry in caving, press| 0 comments

Yesterday, The Independent published an article written by Oli, one of Aberystwyth’s ex-presidents, about the recent history of ACC and student caving generally in Wales. The report is also illustrated with some of my cave photos. To read in full, open the article here. Original image here.