Tag Archives: Alaska

Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in … Continue reading →

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Alaska On The Rocks

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach From the “weather is not climate” department, the sea ice is in early and thick in Alaska. It makes me shiver just to look at the picture. They had to use an icebreaker to get … Continue reading →

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What in the world is going on with global temperatures?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Multiple indicators show global temperatures headed down this month, and fast. by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow As shown above (see the datapoint in the square box), the UAH AMSU daily temperatures are the coldest for the globe at 600mb … Continue reading →

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James Balog’s inconvenient glacial canaries

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Anytime I see the “canary in the coal mine” phrase being applied to some phenomenon related to climate, I know right away that the person using it hasn’t really put much thought into using the phrase, and that it is … Continue reading →

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Abrupt changes in GHCN station-level temperature records contradict the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claims.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Guest post by Jens Raunsø Jensen Preamble Inspired by a statement by Dr. Kevin Trenberth in the e-mails referred to as Climategate 2.0 (#3946 discussed here), it is hoped that climate scientists will have “an open enough mind to even … Continue reading →

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Shock news: trees grow better in a warmer climate with more carbon dioxide

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

The geniuses at Columbia University’s Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory have discovered Liebigs Law of the Minimum. The tree researcher exclaims: “I was expecting to see trees stressed from the warmer temperatures,”…“What we found was a surprise.” Trees on Tundra’s Border … Continue reading →

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Dr. Jeff Masters gets caught up in the full on media stupidity

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

The major winter storm in Alaska mentioned overnight on WUWT, while weaker than the previous record storm 1974, gets pegged as being “aided and abetted by global warming”: While the storm is weaker than the ’74 event, it appears to … Continue reading →

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Extremely Dangerous Storm Slicing Towards Alaska

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

From Live Science An extremely dangerous storm is slicing toward northwestern Alaska and is expected to bring blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to the state’s west coast. The storm, which formed from a mix of air masses over an area … Continue reading →

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Ruling: Polar bears can’t be used to regulate CO2

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

Some good news on the ridiculous polar bears are endangered because of climate change front. It seems the linkage to CO2 has been..ahem, denied. I like this part:

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Al Gore’s “drowned polar bear” AIT source under investigation

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

According to AP/Anchorage Daily News, he’s on leave pending results of investigation. It seems everywhere you look, there’s some sort of fakery going on with the polar bear issue. For example, the image at left, where Science magazine used this … Continue reading →

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Bering sea water temperature, headed down

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Apparently, not all the Arctic is warming to script. This is an interesting graph from PICES, titled The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events. It is accompanied by this text:

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7.2 Earthquake in Alaska – Tsunami Warning Canceled

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

From USGS: This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

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It’s probably nothing*

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

Tom Nelson points out these three related items. It seems the “pretty good proxy for climate change” is proxying the wrong message this year. Overheated Arctic update: Nenana ice was gone by this date in 1940, but still 41 inches … Continue reading →

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New paleo reconstruction shows warmer periods in Alaska over the past 3000 years

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

For those worried about tundra melt and methane outgassing, this study might dampen those worries a bit. A new peer-reviewed study by Clegg et al. demonstrates that modern global warming is significantly less than the global warming experienced in the … Continue reading →

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Alaska warming from Arctic tundra shrub invasion and soot deposition?

Posted on November 6, 2007 by

Dr. Roger Pielke forwarded me his latest paper published in the JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, for release. It has quite a different take on the issue of regional warming in Alaska. Given the emotional testimony given in congress this week by Cheryl … Continue reading →

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