Category Archives: Glaciers

Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

Researchers show that high ancient shorelines do not necessarily reflect ice sheet collapse millions of years ago From the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: For decades, scientists have used ancient shorelines to predict the stability of today’s largest ice sheets … Continue reading →

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Is this what the beginning of glaciation looks like?

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

While ice fishing is still going on in some parts of Minnesota, other parts are having what looks like glacier advance in the back yards that is damaging some homes. As for climate change worries, you can always figure out … Continue reading →

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Weather, not climate, caused the brief surface melt in Greenland last summer

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Readers may recall the breathless wailing over a brief period of surface melt detected by satellites last year. The way the media and alarmists who drive the media behaved, you’d think that global warming had set the planet on fire. … Continue reading →

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Unprecedented Glacial Chutzpah – just in time for IPCC AR5

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

From the European Geosciences Union  comes some unprecedented chutzpah with this statement from one of the authors at the end of the press release: “This study has been conducted with scientific motivations, but if the insight it provides can motivate … Continue reading →

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Glacially modeled snow job

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)  Alarmism, I think maybe they are a bit unclear on the concept of how glaciers work. As snowfall varies with the seasons, the flow of ice speeds up and slows down. … Continue reading →

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More on noisy Greenland ice loss data from GRACE

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Embracing data ‘noise’ brings Greenland’s complex ice melt into focus by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications, Princeton Universtity An enhanced approach to capturing changes on the Earth’s surface via satellite could provide a more accurate account of how ice sheets, … Continue reading →

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Alaska’s Columbia Glacier expected to halt retreat in 2020

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

From the University of Colorado at Boulder more model output, but at least this is a testable hypothesis in the not too distant future. It also points to the fact that there is not a definitive linear relationship between CO2 … Continue reading →

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Glaciergate post script – they’ll shrink anyway

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

From Brigham Young University and the “IPCC, take your 2035 and shove it” department comes this study: Himalayan glaciers will shrink even if temperatures hold steady Come rain or shine, or even snow, some glaciers of the Himalayas will continue … Continue reading →

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Antarctic weight loss seems to be in the eye of the beholder

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

From Newcastle University New understanding of Antarctic’s weight-loss New data which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better understand how Antarctica is changing in the light of global warming. The rate of global sea level change … Continue reading →

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Untested claim: increased CO2 helps glacier ice to crack

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

From the Institute of Physics , something so overreaching I just can’t believe the Institute of Physics would put out a press release on it.  Where does one start with stuff like this? This is all modeling, they haven’t even … Continue reading →

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Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

Perspective by William McClenney on the paper of the same title by: P. C. Tzedakis, E.W. Wolff, L. C. Skinner, V. Brovkin, D. A. Hodell, J. F. McManus, and D. Raynaud http://www.clim-past.net/8/1473/2012/cp-8-1473-2012.pdf I can often be heard, when assailed by … Continue reading →

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Surprise: glaciers in Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930′s and 1940′s than today

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930′s and 1940′s than over the past 40 years. The “Multi-proxy study of sediment cores … Continue reading →

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Onset of the Next Glaciation

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald Baby boomers like me have enjoyed the most benign period in human history. The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace, we had cheap energy from inherent over-supply of oil, grain supply … Continue reading →

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‘Counterintuitive finding suggests that unexpected factors may govern a glacier’s response to climate change’

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

From the University at Buffalo, new evidence that large ice sheets can grow/disappear quickly on decadal scales in response to regional temperature changes. A descriptive video follows. How fast can ice sheets respond to climate change? Scientists report that prehistoric … Continue reading →

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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 →

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MSM Finally Questions “Unprecedented” Nature of Greenland Ice Melt

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

As WUWT readers are aware, there has been a great deal of attention paid by the main stream media to the extensive melt on the Greenland icecap that occurred during July (for example, see here, here, here, here, and here).  The … Continue reading →

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Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is ‘right on time’

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

UPDATE: see this new article on the issue, “Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” … Continue reading →

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Greenland Ice Sheet albedo drops ‘off the bottom of the chart’ – but look closer as to why

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

Got this in the mail just as I posted my open thread announcemnt. I’m too busy this weekend to say much else except to post this tweet from Bill McKibben and some past blog excerpts and invite discussion. Bill McKibben … Continue reading →

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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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Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

By Pat Michaels via World Climate Report A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed acceleration of ice loss from Greenland may not be a … Continue reading →

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