By Andy May This is the seventh and last post in my series on the hazards of climate change. In this post we examine the effects of climate change on…
Category: Glaciers
Remember when the calving of the Petermann Glacier was a sure sign of ‘global warming’? Never mind.
WUWT readers may recall some articles we did years back debunking the alarm over the Petermann glacier calving off a large iceberg. In case you are unfamiliar, it’s what glaciers…
Are the glaciers in Glacier National Park growing?
By Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D., Founder, Lysander Spooner University www.lysanderspooneruniversity.com Glacier National Park (GNP) straddles the continental divide along Montana’s border with Canada. Ever since Al Gore’s 2006 film, “An…
Are Doomsday Scenarios Best Seen As Failed Predictions Or Political Detonators?
Date: 16/09/17 | Tor H Aase, The Geographical Journal of Nepal The so-called ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation’ predicted an environmental collapse by the end of last millennium, threatening the…
Some Of The World’s Largest Non-Polar Glaciers Are Expanding, Despite Global Warming
Energy Some Of The World’s Largest Non-Polar Glaciers Are Expanding, Despite Global Warming From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 12:36 PM 08/11/2017 Some of the largest non-polar glaciers in the…
Researchers crack the 'Karakoram anomaly'
It’s an “anomaly”, or could it be weather~ctm From Eurekalert Public Release: 7-Aug-2017 Newcastle University A summer ‘vortex’ of cold air over the Karakoram mountain range is causing the glaciers…
Glaciers Cause Global Warming?
Guest post by David Middleton Rice University Torres, who joined the Rice faculty in July, is lead author of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He…
Study: 'glaciers don't need periods of warming to trigger retreat'
A new model yields insights into glaciers’ retreats and advances, shows cyclic nature of tidewater glaciers From the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS via Eurekalert A University of Alaska Fairbanks study…
International Team of Scientists to Test Method for Slowing Glacier Retreat
Guest essay by J.I. Thacker The Te Moeka o Tuawe (REF 1) is a southern-hemisphere glacier in New Zealand that is unusual among glaciers in that its terminus is very close to…
Study: Advancing glaciers in New Zealand are a sign of 'regional cooling'
Reader Phil Hutchings writes via email: This article in Nature Communications caught my eye! This is a beauty. This week, Nature Communications published an explanation as to why (at least)…
Surprising: Neutral Fact Finder Points to Melting Glaciers as the Cause of Global Warming, Rising Sea Levels and Rising CO2 in Atmosphere
Neutral Fact Finder Points to Melting Glaciers as the Cause of Global Warming, Rising Sea Levels and Rising CO2 in Atmosphere President Elect Trump and incoming EPA director Pruit rightfully…
This just in: Ice Age postponed due to global warming!
Guest post by David Middleton, featured image borrowed from Meadow Heights PTA. Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions is blamed by scientists for intensifying storms, raising sea levels…
Claim: Glaciers melt faster than ever
From the UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH and the “lets ignore some of these other growing glaciers” department The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide…
A shift in climate 'forcing' led to demise of Laurentide ice sheet 9000 years ago
I wonder what caused a shift in ‘radiative forcing’ 9,000 years ago? Good thing that it happened though, or we would likely not have the civilization we have today. Sudden…
The Hubbard Glacier defies 'climate change' – continues to grow
Hubbard Glacier could permanently dam the entrance to Russell Fiord in as little as 10 years From NOAA Earth Observatory: Since measurements began in 1895, Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier has been thickening…
Recycled: 2035 Himalayan Glacier Claim
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Alarmists are busy recycling old debunked climate claims, in a desperate effort to build up momentum for the upcoming Paris climate conference. According to the…
Claim: Western Canada to lose 70 percent of glaciers by 2100
From the University of British Columbia Seventy per cent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for…
Claim: Melting glaciers have big carbon impact
From Florida State University: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the Earth warms and glaciers all over the world begin to melt, researchers and public policy experts have focused largely on how…
Silly Headline of the Day – NYT: Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale And the opening of the NewYorkTimes article reads: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. — What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone? My…
Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland
Story submitted by Eric Worrall British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, have been stunned to find evidence of recently formed multi-year ice fields, areas…
Claim: Human contribution to glacier mass loss on the increase
From the University of Innsbruck, another modeling study. This news release is available in German. The ongoing global glacier retreat causes rising sea-levels, changing seasonal water availability and increasing geo-hazards.…
Receding Swiss glaciers incoveniently reveal 4000 year old forests – and make it clear that glacier retreat is nothing new
By Larry Bell Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier was clearly not cheered by many members of the global…
Climate Change Not so Global
UQ study – Global change takes thousands of years Story submitted by Eric Worrall A University of Queensland study into New Zealand glaciers has discovered a huge disparity between Southern…
Uh oh: Study says 'collapsing' Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica melting from geothermal heat, not 'climate change' effects
Remember the wailing from Suzanne Goldenberg over the “collapse” of the Thwaites glacier blaming man-made CO2 effects and the smackdown given to the claim on WUWT? Well, never mind. From…
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