On coracles, Partridge, the Mandan and the Inuit

A Passamaquoddy Legend : In ancient days Partridge was the canoe-builder for the other birds. And after he had finished all the canoes, he ...

Sea-levels and Permafrost burials

The calamities that are predicted by those arguing for the need for carbon dioxide emission controls typically focus on the rapid rise in se...

Advancing and Retreating Glaciers in the Holocene

I was musing as to how to start this post, and so I Googled “Medieval Warming Period”, and found that there is a post at Gristmill about ta...

From the Little Ice Age to today -rates of climate change

Much of the media coverage of the changing climate relates to the changes in glacier size, and their relative retreat over the past four dec...

Glaciers and the Little Ice Age

I suppose that many of us that are trying to do “due diligence” in looking at the scientific data that relates to the issues of climate chan...