Category Archives: Arctic

Sea ice extent linked to ocean currents – hindcast model works

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

UPDATE: Perhaps in response to criticism here, MIT has changed the press release wording. See below. From MIT, now if they could work the wind patterns in, as NASA suggests, we might have a clearer picture of why the Arctic … Continue reading →

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Arctic Ice and the DMI deficit

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

There’s been some interest in these before and after graphs highlighted by the blog “sunshinehours” here. Arctic Sea Ice Not As Bad As They Claimed??? DMI To me it looked like a data processing change at DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) of … Continue reading →

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NASA on Earth’s bipolar sea ice behavior

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Opposite Behaviors? Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks, Antarctic Grows September 2012 witnessed two opposite records concerning sea ice. Two weeks after the Arctic Ocean’s ice cap experienced an all-time summertime low for the satellite era (left), Antarctic sea ice reached a … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 14 – Arctic refreeze fastest ever

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

After all of the news about a minimum record ice extent last month, this is interesting. As we know when water loses its ice cover, it allows a lot of heat to radiate into space as LWIR. many predictied that … Continue reading →

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Thinning Arctic Ice; More Al Gore Aided and Abetted Misinformation?

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

Guest post by Dr.Tim Ball Al Gore did more to bring melting Arctic ice to global attention and concern than anyone. Polar bears became victims and poster animals for destructive human production of CO2. He’s done more than most in … Continue reading →

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September Panics and Smurphy’s Law

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

A layman’s view of the strange period of history we are living through Guest post by Caleb Shaw During hot spells in the summer I often find it refreshing to click onto Anthony’s “Sea Ice Page,” and to sit back … Continue reading →

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NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW!

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life… “Part of NASA’s mission is pioneering scientific discovery, and this is like finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert,” said Paula Bontempi, NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Climate_change, Sea ice | 71 Comments

Sea Ice News, Volume 3 Number 14 – Antarctic Sea ice near record high of 2007

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

While the Arctic recently set a new record low, lower than that of 2007, the Antarctic is at near record highs similar to that of 2007 according to University of Illinois Cryosphere Today data: Here are the values: 2007.7206 1.1396104 … Continue reading →

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Hamster wheels and sea ice explained

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

From the University of Calgary Utoday: Melting Arctic ice cap at record low - By Heath McCoy Think of a poor hamster on a spinning wheel, caught up by momentum and unable to stop until it’s overwhelmed, sent tumbling, crashing out … Continue reading →

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Tisdale: How Much of an Impact Does the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Have on Arctic Sea Ice Extent?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Last week I asked Bob Tisdale to take a hard look at potential correlations between the AMO and Arctic sea ice extent, and he rose to the challenge – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post presents reference graphs … Continue reading →

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NASA on Arctic sea ice record low – storm ‘wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover’

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

NASA finally admits it Arctic cyclone in August ‘broke up’ and ‘wreaked havoc’ on sea ice — Reuters reports Arctic storm played ‘key role’ in this season’s sea ice reduction. ‘The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days…pushing … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – Guardian publishes a story about Earth ‘raising the white flag’ due to disappearing ice, then disappears the story

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Fortunately, the Internet has a memory.  Here’s some excerpts from the story by Damian Carrington. After reading it, I can see why they disappeared it.

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Solar activity linked to Baltic winter severity

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

This paper Solar forcing on the ice winter severity index in the western Baltic region, was published yesterday in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.  It suggests that the winter severity index over the past 600 years in the … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice Page Upgrades, Observations and Questions

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In making a couple upgrades to the Sea Ice Page, I made a few observations, and a few questions arose. Firstly, several weeks ago the following exchange occurred on a Sea Ice News thread: … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, feedbacks, Land use land cover change, Oceans, Sea ice, Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature | Tagged , , , , , | 125 Comments

Josh on Catastrophic reporting

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

Josh brings attention to this George Monbiot piece today in the Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/arctic-ice-rich-world-disaster Noting that: Something of an annual event… sea ice alarm.  After reading Monbiot’s essay, the cartoon will make sense:

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2012: The Year Greenland Melted (AKA Alarmists Gone Wild)

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton “Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt… Right On Time” I guess Professor Tedesco missed this… “Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Albedo, Arctic, Glaciers, Greenland ice sheet, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 133 Comments

Crack in the Earth: Greenland glacier loses ice island twice the size of Manhattan

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

It’s business as usual at the Petermann glacier, doing what a glacier does, calving ice into the sea. We reported on another chunk in 2010, four Manhattans in size. Borrowing from an oft used media ploy, at this rate, it … Continue reading →

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ARCUS: July Sea Ice Outlook Published

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

WUWT comes in at the median value of 4.6 million square kilometers (they rounded up from our 4.55 submission) . It is important to note that even with the large losses in June, nobody who submitted to ARCUS is forecasting … Continue reading →

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NW passage not so busy after all

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Guest post by Robert Phelan One of our commenters last week was going on about how the Northwest Passage was opening up and ships were making the passage… there is a website which tracks world wide shipping…. So my question … Continue reading →

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Here we go again: row, row, row, your boat – Arctic edition

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I must admit, being an oceanic adventurer myself, I do love to read about outrageous voyages. The feats of Shackleton in the Endurance stir my blood. I’ve stood on the deck of the Gjoa, the … Continue reading →

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