Monthly Archives: April 2009

WUWT Ice Survey Shows Thickening Arctic Ice

Posted on April 9, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard The WUWT Arctic Ice Thickness Survey has been conducted from the comfort of a warm living room over the last half hour, without sponsors, excessive CO2 emissions or hypothermia.  The data is collected from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 275 Comments

Catlin Arctic Survey website recycles biotelemetry data?

Posted on April 8, 2009 by

UPDATES WE HAVE UPDATES: 8 updates to this story have been posted – see below the “read the rest of this entry” line. It appears most if not all of the technology in the expedition has failed early on and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 420 Comments

White House Science Advisor Holdren suggests “climate engineering with particulates”

Posted on April 8, 2009 by

Here’s an excerpt of an AP story posted on Brietbart by President Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, suggesting putting particulate matter into the air to reflect sunlight. It seems like we’ve already tried that and then cleaned it up in … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 218 Comments

Polar Ice Worries – North and South

Posted on April 8, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard From The Washington Post : Norway’s foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, painted a stark picture of the climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. “The ice is melting,” Stoere said. “We should all be … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, sea ice | 129 Comments

Archibald on sea level rise and solar cycles

Posted on April 7, 2009 by

Guest post by David Archibald Anthony’s post of the Jason data reminded me that I had produced this graph: It is derived from a post on Climate Audit of Holgate’s rate of change of sea level rise over the 20th … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level, solar | 167 Comments

NSIDC Raises The Bar

Posted on April 7, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard In past years, NSIDC has referred to “declining multi-year ice” as the problem which the Arctic faces.  Mark Serreze at NSIDC forecast a possible “Ice Free North Pole” in 2008, based on the fact that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 143 Comments

Catlin Crew Officially Has Hypothermia (and Frostbite)

Posted on April 7, 2009 by

From the Catlin web site today – Hypothermia Posted by Gaby Dean Monday, 06 Apr 2009 15:58 In disadvantaged inner cities it’s known in medical circles as Urban Hypothermia.  GPs adopted the term after seeing an increase, during winter, of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 217 Comments

Sea Level Graphs from UC and some perspectives

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

I got a couple of emails today saying that I should take a look at the most recently posted sea level graph from the University of Colorado shown below: The reason for the interest is that it dropped the rate … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, sea level | 201 Comments

Mt. Redoubt Eruptions – What Effect If Any on the Summer? Winter?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

By Joe D’Aleo CCM ICECAP Monday, April 6, 2009 Starting on March 22, a series of major eruptions have taken place from Mt. Redoubt in Alaska. The biggest exceeded 65,000 feet in height. More than a dozen eruptions as high … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, vulcanism | 108 Comments

All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP Map of US weather records for week ending 4/6/09 click image to enlarge or here for source. Map created by HAMWeather, UPDATE: NOAA predicts the Red River Will Crest Again in Fargo-Moorhead in Late April … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, snow, weather | 231 Comments

Quote of the Week #2

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

From “Pragmatic”, on the Lindzen on negative feedback thread: “What most alarmists don’t seem to fathom is that real people want balance in their decision/learning process. Balance arrives on the wings of debate.” Art By Geoff Sharp, other artwork submissions … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, Quote of the Week | 33 Comments

Bzzt! Welcome to the dark ages

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard The Effects of One Nuclear Bomb at High Altitude From Wikipedia Yesterday’s missile launch from nuclear power North Korea raised particular concern in the military, due to the possibility of EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) attack.  Almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 141 Comments

The 1998 Super El Niño: possibly a “rogue wave”?

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

In comments on WUWT, people often think freely and throw out all sorts of ideas. Like in any collection of people, some are bad, some are average, a few are good, and even fewer are noteworthy. However, one that was … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, ENSO, oceans, PDO, Science | 148 Comments

Global Warming and “The Early Spring”

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Following up on the cold spring story from Friday, one of the favorite mantras of the global warming community has been that global warming brings earlier spring seasons.  If a bird shows up earlier than … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | 120 Comments

Redoubt volcano erupts again

Posted on April 4, 2009 by

From the Alaska Volcano Observatory: The significant explosive event at 06:00 AKDT has ended. Continuing seismic activity and web camera images indicate that low level emissions of steam, gas, and some volcanic ash are continuing to be emitted at the … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 39 Comments

Bad news for Catlin Expedition: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March

Posted on April 4, 2009 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard As reported by Anthony, RSS satellite temperature data is out for March.  And as the Catlin adventurers have discovered, it has been “stupidly cold” in the Arctic.  March was the second consecutive month of below … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 108 Comments

RSS and UAH Global Temperature Anomalies for March 2009

Posted on April 3, 2009 by

RSS Data Source is here The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 was published today and has dropped for the second month after peaking in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 134 Comments

Spring voting chooses Blue States/Red States

Posted on April 3, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Weather is not climate, but 49 out of 50 states agree – spring is getting off to a cold start. How will these blue states vote on “cap and trade?”  Someone needs to take responsibility … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 159 Comments

Recent NOAA Study: Climate change not all man-made

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

Cites Natural Causes Tom Spears, Canwest News Service It’s wrong to blame our warming climate on human pollution alone, says a major analysis by U. S. climate scientists who say North America’s warming and drying trend also has important natural … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 106 Comments

Arctic Ice Summer Death Watch: 5, 30, or 100 years?

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

Gore says 5 years, now NOAA says 30 instead of 100 years.  Place your bets. Ice-Free Arctic Summers Likely Sooner Than Expected NOAA News April 2, 2009 Mean sea ice thickness in meters for March (left) and September (right) based … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 101 Comments

Global Warming At The Pole Since 1913

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard From the Catlin web site today – a first hand description of what motivates the explorers, and what they are learning about Arctic warming. Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 10:04 “Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 139 Comments

Readers: Your help needed to recover old satellite imagery

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

As WUWT readers know, I covered a fascinating project on 3/31 here showing how a team of dedicated technical archaeologists are trying the get old AMPEX 2″ reel to reel data recorders functional again so that they can recover thousnads … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 68 Comments

What’s that smell? Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

Sometimes, you really don’t need to make up an April Fools joke. Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, except for the part about “four gallons” which is part of the original Telegraph article ;-) – Anthony From the Telegraph … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, Science | 116 Comments

NASA Headline: Deep Solar Minimum

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

NASA Science News, Dr. Tony Philips The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 300 Comments