Category Archives: Antarctic

New paper: A high-resolution surface mass balance map of Antarctica shows “no significant trend in the 1979–2010 ice sheet”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Uh, oh. Another talking point bites the dust. Leif Svalgaard writes in to tell me of a significant new paper. While Gore, Hansen, Branson, and a gaggle of hangers on just finished a publicity stunt tour of Antarctica to tell … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

A fish story from Antarctica

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

From Yale University: Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their “anti-freeze” proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed … Continue reading →

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Sir Richard Branson goes full on stupid in Antarctica

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

The stupid, it burns. OTOH, he’s with Gore and Hansen and there’s press with him, so maybe he’s just being sociable . Get a load of this from Richard Branson’s blog, CO2 can apparently contradict solar forcing due to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Antarctic | Tagged , , , , , | 175 Comments

Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Antarctic, GLOC, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 264 Comments

Steig et al, revisited with UAH satellite data

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

From World Climate Report: Antarctic Temperature Trends Almost exactly two years ago, a prominent paper became a media darling as it, according to the alarmist website Real Climate “appeared to reverse the ‘Antarctic cooling’ meme that has been a staple … Continue reading →

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RealClimate’s Steig: Pacific SST’s influencing Antarctic melt, no link to human causes demonstrated

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

WUWT readers may recall the Nature cover with this picture of Antarctica at left, followed by the subsequent falsification of the Antarctic warming claims made by Steig et al using the dicey Mannomatic math employed. We owe thanks to O’Donnell … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, glaciers, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , | 71 Comments

Linking an ancient CO2 drop to the Antarctic Ice Sheet using algae as a proxy

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

From Purdue University , another “just in time for Durban” press release. When you see phrases like “the mother of all tipping points” and you know this is overhyped control knob science. Drop in carbon dioxide levels led to polar … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Carbon dioxide | Tagged | 79 Comments

NASA on the Antarctic Crack

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE – After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major … Continue reading →

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Little Bubbles, part 1

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Guest Post by Caleb Shaw Preface:  Climate Scientists and School Girls – A humorous description of a layman trying to investigate the little bubbles in ice cores,  involving both the actual science,  and a layman’s amazement over the politics. My … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | Tagged , , , | 152 Comments

New WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page. For those unfamiliar, a Polar Vortex is “caused when an area of low pressure sits at the rotation pole of … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, ozone, sea ice, stratospheric water vapor | Tagged , , , , , | 81 Comments

Arctic cold yields “unprecedented Arctic ozone loss”

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

“What was different about this year was that the temperatures were low enough to generate ozone-depleting forms of chlorine for a much longer period of time.” And it is worth noting that the “unprecedented” only applies to the short satellite … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, ozone | Tagged , , | 169 Comments

Peer review is dead, long live blog review

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

By Marc Hendrickx writing in ABC’s The Drum In January 2009, Nature splashed its front cover with the results of a new study titled ‘Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year’. The article was accompanied … Continue reading →

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Bishop Hill and the skeptical cookbook

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Oh this is fun, Bishop Hill catches John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” in a revisionism gaffe using The Wayback Machine. He writes:

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, GLOC | Tagged , , | 65 Comments

Climate clam chowder has a spicy ENSO rhythm from an old recipe

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

From the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research comes word that the climate varied before, just like it does today, and we won’t be stuck with a permanent El Niño. Imagine that. 50-million-year-old clam shells provide indications of … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, ENSO, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , | 27 Comments

A climate change dynamic

Posted on September 3, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ The presumption that ‘the science is settled’ is incorrect. This post aims to give readers an understanding of the dynamics of the coupled circulation of the stratosphere and the troposphere at the poles that drives … Continue reading →

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NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

First complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, derived from radar interferometric data. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCI › Full image and caption › Related video PASADENA, Calif. – NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, glaciers | Tagged , , | 53 Comments

The heartbreak of ethanes

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

From the National Science Foundation Ethane levels yield information about changes in greenhouse gas emissions Research at Greenland and Antarctic shows decline in methane and ethane levels Recent data from NSF-funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil-fuel … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Methane | 51 Comments

Biases in Antarctic weather stations reported up to 10°C

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

This paper just published in the AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology has some broad ramifications for the claim (Steig et al, covered here) that Antarctica is warming. It appears that the radiation shields used for automated weather stations … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, weather_stations | 71 Comments

Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Guest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t.  While there is great hand wringing over coastal ice loss in Greenland and the West Antarctic … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 35 Comments

Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – “worse than we thought”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, satire, sea ice | Tagged , , | 132 Comments

Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, cosmic rays, earth, education, ENSO, modeling, oceans, Radiation, rainfall, sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

A demonstration of Chladni Patterns

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Post submitted by John A. Readers of Climate Audit will have noted Steve McIntyre  mentioning Chladni patterns in respect to the results of some climate reconstructions which exhibit spacial autocorrelation – which means that the data points are related to … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | 25 Comments

Radar mapping reveals ancient Antarctic giant fjords

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

From the University of Texas at Austin New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the … Continue reading →

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