Tag Archives: North Pole

Global warming whacks Earth’s poles – is there anything it can’t do?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Reader View from the Solent writes: Global warming shifts the Earth’s poles. North Pole heads for Greenland “Global warming is changing the location of Earth’s geographic poles, according to a study in Geophysical Research Letters1. Researchers at the University of … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 8 – meltwater hues, or blues?

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

WUWT commenter Caleb writes on 2012/07/20 at 7:53 am Check out the “North Pole Camera” on the WUWT “Sea Ice Page.” Both Camera #1 and Camera #2 show lovely summer weather, and patches of melt-water atop the ice. One problem … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News: NSIDC’s Dr. Walt Meier on this Arctic ice season

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center Winds, Temperatures, and Arctic Sea Ice Extent As the summer sea ice melt season gets into high gear, I thought I’d do a post on sea ice processes … Continue reading →

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The Guardian’s ridiculous claim of 75% Arctic sea ice loss in 30 years – patently false

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

Reposted from “Haunting the Library” (well worth a bookmark), another clueless journalist combined with an artist/activist makes The Guardian look pretty darned stupid. Five minutes or less of checking would have prevented this blunder. Guardian Goes “Full Stupid” on Arctic … Continue reading →

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Cache of historical Arctic sea ice maps discovered

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Arctic Sea ice data collected by DMI 1893-1961 Guest post by Frank Lansner I came across a number of maps showing Arctic ice extend from 1893 to 1961 collected by DMI in “Nautisk Meteorologisk Aarbog”. Each year DMI have collected … Continue reading →

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Tamino’s Trick

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Guest Post by Jeff Condon Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice.  He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are.   Sorry folks, it was a … Continue reading →

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Great Circle Route over the pole cleared for Branson’s Virgin Air

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

This will shave six hours off a flight from London to Fiji, which had to either stop in Los Angeles or Seoul en-route. There’s a good side and a bad side to this. The good side: Thousands, perhaps hundreds of … Continue reading →

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The Telegraph finally figures out where the North Magnetic Pole is was, issues microscopically sized correction

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

WUWT readers may remember this story I wrote about the clowns from Old Pulteney’s “Row to the Pole” who had headlines blaring in Britain exclaiming they had rowed to the “north pole”. Telegraph, BBC, and Independent geography FAIL: “Row to … Continue reading →

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Telegraph, BBC, and Independent geography FAIL: “Row to the Pole” never made it to the “North Pole” – they are 790 miles short

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

UPDATE: BBC (and now the Independent) commit the same FAIL. See below. More “Row to the Pole” nonsense writ large: Ummmm…no, Mr. Hough, the Telegraph’s headline and story are simply wrong. You are a victim of spin and/or a failed … Continue reading →

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Icebreaker at the North Pole

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

From the Alfred Wegener Institute news that a ship that reached the real geographic North Pole, unlike the hapless group of Whisky sponsored rowers (Row to the Pole) who are pointlessly attempting to reach the location of 1996 magnetic pole, … Continue reading →

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Another stupid polar publicity stunt – “Row To The Pole”

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

I thought when I saw the Catlin expedition and their faked biotelemetry on their website I had seen the epitome of stupid when it comes to polar publicity stunts. I was wrong. Enter the new candidate: Not only is it … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News #36 – Arctic maximum ice extent reached – NANSEN data disagrees with NSIDC’s on the claim of a tie with 2006-2007

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Now we start the slow slide into the Arctic Ice Minimum, likely sometime in September. It is important to point out that there’s a lot of ice up there, and as illustrated by the images below, the losses at ICEmax … Continue reading →

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A reply to Senator Menendez from Santa

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

People send me stuff. I’m on all sorts of mailing lists, and ever since WUWT started the Sea Ice Page, I’ve been on the Santa’s workshop mailing list. Believe me, it’s as much a surprise to me as it is … Continue reading →

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