Tag Archives: antarctica

New paper: A high-resolution surface mass balance map of Antarctica shows “no significant trend in the 1979–2010 ice sheet”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Uh, oh. Another talking point bites the dust. Leif Svalgaard writes in to tell me of a significant new paper. While Gore, Hansen, Branson, and a gaggle of hangers on just finished a publicity stunt tour of Antarctica to tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Antarctic | Tagged , , , , , , , | 100 Comments

A fish story from Antarctica

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

From Yale University: Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their “anti-freeze” proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , , | 140 Comments

IPCC’s Pachauri’s “voodoo science” claim comes full circle

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

WUWT readers may recall that when the “Himalayan Glaciers will melt by 2035″ error was first revealed, IPCC chairman Rajenda Pachauri famously labeled claims of the mistake “voodoo science”and then had to retract that slur later. Now it appears there … Continue reading →

Posted in glaciers, IPCC | Tagged , , , , , , , | 143 Comments

Arctic Death Spiral: no sale – the public isn’t buying

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

From the Carsey Institute: Americans’ Knowledge of Polar Regions Up, But Not Their Concern Environmental Issues in Polar Regions Are Polarizing DURHAM, N.H. – Americans’ knowledge of facts about the polar regions of the globe has increased since 2006, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | Tagged , , , , , , , | 54 Comments

The Gore Effect kicks in, plus ça change …

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach … plus ça same old stuff. Thank goodness somethings never change. For example, the “Gore Effect”, which says that wherever His Nobelity Albert Gore III might hold a Climastravaganza to remind the world of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Al Gore | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 104 Comments

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 →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , , , , , , | 70 Comments

Another GISS miss, this time in Iceland

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Ever wonder why NASA’s Jim Hansen (and many others) see red at high northern latitudes? Above 2011 Temperature Anomaly. Source: NASA GISS interactive plotter With all that red up north, you’d think Jimbo, Gore, and Trenberth would want to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 259 Comments

It’s “dead heat” – Americans rate global warming last

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

It appears that only the zealots care much about global warming anymore, yet it doesn’t stop them from making grand pronouncements of gloom and doom or taking fossil fueled publicity stunt boat trips to Antarctica. The Pew Research Center released … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 70 Comments

Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Antarctic, GLOC, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

Steig et al, revisited with UAH satellite data

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

From World Climate Report: Antarctic Temperature Trends Almost exactly two years ago, a prominent paper became a media darling as it, according to the alarmist website Real Climate “appeared to reverse the ‘Antarctic cooling’ meme that has been a staple … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic | Tagged , , , , , , , | 32 Comments

Carbon, on the uptake

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

From the University of Bristol Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today’s climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 85 Comments

NASA on the Antarctic Crack

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE – After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic | Tagged , , | 88 Comments

Little Bubbles, part 1

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Guest Post by Caleb Shaw Preface:  Climate Scientists and School Girls – A humorous description of a layman trying to investigate the little bubbles in ice cores,  involving both the actual science,  and a layman’s amazement over the politics. My … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | Tagged , , , | 152 Comments

Bishop Hill and the skeptical cookbook

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Oh this is fun, Bishop Hill catches John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” in a revisionism gaffe using The Wayback Machine. He writes:

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, GLOC | Tagged , , | 65 Comments

NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

First complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, derived from radar interferometric data. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCI › Full image and caption › Related video PASADENA, Calif. – NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, glaciers | Tagged , , | 53 Comments

Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Guest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t.  While there is great hand wringing over coastal ice loss in Greenland and the West Antarctic … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 35 Comments

Paleopollen in Antarctica

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica Analysis of direct climate record shows Antarctic tundra persisted until 12 million years ago HOUSTON — (June 27, 2011) — A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 53 Comments

Steig on Antarctic warming: “Rossby wave trains”

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

From the University of Washington, comes this upcoming paper by corresponding author Dr. Eric Steig (and co-authors)that the mechanism for warming of the Antarctic Peninsula is mostly weather pattern driven. The mechanism cited? “Rossby Wave Train” aka the circumpolar vortex … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, weather | Tagged , , , | 32 Comments

Antarctic ice models “not correct”, sea level rise “complicated”

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

There’s some surprising reaction to the press release we covered on WUWT recently. Here’s some excerpts:

Posted in Antarctic | Tagged , , , | 89 Comments

A viewpoint on the Antarctic warming debate

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

Antarctic temperature plots through the history of the debate: NASA 2004: NASA 2007: Steig et al 2009:   O’Donnell et al 2010:   Some historical perspective:

Posted in Antarctic | Tagged , | 41 Comments

O’Donnell Responds to Steig

Posted on February 11, 2011 by

From Climate Audit, more on the ongoing Antarctic kerfluffle. By Ryan O’Donnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Eric Steig informed me by email that he had not seen our Response to his Third Review, as I … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, peer review | Tagged , , | 98 Comments

Coffin, meet nail. – more on Steig’s reconstruction issues

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

by Ryan O’Donnell via Climate Audit For those who are not mathematically inclined and did not entirely follow the discussion about Eric’s reconstruction in the previous post, well, a picture is worth a thousand words. This is what happens to … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic | Tagged , , | 62 Comments

RC’s duplicity prods Jeff Id out of retirement

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

Jeff asked me to carry this, since his blog is off the radar since he announced his retirement. It took an RC moment to change that. – Anthony Wrong is Wrong – A reply to the Real Noise at Real Climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 143 Comments

Another overhyped global warming claim bites the dust

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Longtime readers of WUWT may remember this story from 2008: Nutty Story of the Day: “Global Warming” is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica The root of this goes back as far as 2006, such as this MSNBC story: Now it appears … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Climate News | Tagged , , , , , | 109 Comments

NASA gets CREAMed

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

No, it is not what you think…

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , , , | 49 Comments