Daily Archives: April 8, 2010

NSIDC’s Walt Meier responds to Willis

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

I read Willis Eschenbach’s post last week on Trust and Mistrust where he posed several questions and challenged scientists to respond to the same questions. So, below is my take on these questions. There are a couple points I need … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 546 Comments

Climate change and “The Birds”

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department. Climate change is now blamed for what is called “Gary Larson events” in homage to the famed creator of the comic strip “The Far Side” “We saw birds dying of what … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 136 Comments

Cryo-sat launch successful

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite From the European Space Agency: 8 April 2010 ESA PR 07-2010. Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat-2 will send back … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, sea ice | 62 Comments

Arctic Sea Ice Reports: who to believe?

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

We’ve all seen  that Arctic Sea ice area and extent has expanded and is back to normal. NANSEN Arctic ROOS just got their web page plots back online yesterday after an outage, and there’s a bit of a surprise when … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 178 Comments