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Category Archives: Sea ice
More ‘ice free Arctic’ claims – we’ve heard it all before
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, something we’ve heard before. For example this claim from 2008. Gotta love the use of props to show how climate tipping points work: NASA: Arctic Ocean Could be Mostly Ice Free in 2013 … Continue reading
Fat polar bears (Ursus Maritimus Obesus) -vs- CFACT
The press release below is from Wiley, where they worry that the polar bear can’t find enough sea ice. Meanwhile, billboards proclaim the uptick in polar bear numbers thanks to conservation efforts and other factors. See below for 10 reasons … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Polarbeargate, Sea ice
Tagged CFACT, Hudson Bay, Journal of Animal Ecology, polar bear, Sea ice, Susan Crockford, University of Alberta, Wiley
146 Comments
Ice loss model verification via satellite observations
European satellite confirms UW numbers: Arctic Ocean is on thin ice By Hannah Hickey (via university of Washington press release) The September 2012 record low in Arctic sea-ice extent was big news, but a missing piece of the puzzle was … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Modeling, Sea ice
Tagged Arctic Ocean, CryoSat, European Space Agency, ICESat, NASA, Polar ice packs
97 Comments
Sea Ice News: Volume 4 #1 – Arctic Ice gain sets a new record
From the Nature abhors a vacuum department comes this note from RealScience showing that Arctic sea ice has made a stunning rebound since the record low recorded in the late summer of 2012. With a few weeks of growth still to … Continue reading
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Sea ice, Sea Ice News
Tagged Antarctic, Arctic, Polar ice packs, Sea ice
165 Comments
Record Arctic Storm Melted Sea Ice
Image Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center IUP Bremen From Live Science: Months before Hurricane Sandy hurled the Atlantic Ocean into houses and cities along the East Coast, another record-breaking cyclone battered North America, helping push this year’s Arctic … Continue reading
Sea ice extent linked to ocean currents – hindcast model works
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
Bipolar disorder – as in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice extent is affected by wind, unless of course it’s ‘climate change’
From the “no matter what happens it is climate change” department. So, according to this, when the Arctic loses ice it is due to climate change ‘global warming’ when the Antarctic gains ice it is due to ‘climate change’ and … Continue reading
Posted in Antarctic, Sea ice
Tagged Antarctic, antarctica, Arctic, British Antarctic Survey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Nature Geoscience, Polar region
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Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements
A climate science bombshell: New proposal from NASA JPL admits to “spurious” errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem. People send me stuff. Today it is a PowerPoint … Continue reading
Posted in Sea ice, Sea level, Space, Technology
Tagged Current sea level rise, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, NASA JPL, Sea level, Technology, TRF
127 Comments
Arctic Ice and the DMI deficit
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
Posted in Arctic, Sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Arctic Ocean, DMI, National Snow & Ice Data Center, NSIDC, Sea ice
30 Comments
NASA on Earth’s bipolar sea ice behavior
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
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Sea ice
Tagged antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, NASA, Southern Ocean
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Antarctic weight loss seems to be in the eye of the beholder
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
Thinning Arctic Ice; More Al Gore Aided and Abetted Misinformation?
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
September Panics and Smurphy’s Law
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
According to NOAA data, all time Antarctic sea ice extent record was set on Sept 22nd, 2012
At the blog “sunshine hours” it seems the Antarctic has set a new record. He writes: As you may know, I have been using Cryosphere’s Antarctic Sea Ice Area data to show the record levels of Antarctic Sea Ice. But I … Continue reading
NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW!
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
Hamster wheels and sea ice explained
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
Posted in Arctic, Sea ice
Tagged Arctic Ocean, hamster wheels, Polar ice packs, Sea ice
205 Comments
Tisdale: How Much of an Impact Does the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Have on Arctic Sea Ice Extent?
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
Posted in AMO, Arctic, Sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Polar ice packs, Sea ice
79 Comments
NASA on Arctic sea ice record low – storm ‘wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover’
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
Sea Ice Page Upgrades, Observations and Questions
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
Josh on Catastrophic reporting
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:
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Sea ice
42 Comments
