Gore’s “ice free Arctic” prediction from five years ago, falsified by nature itself The great bloviator has been pwned again, by the actions of nature itself. In Germany, five years…
Tag: Polar ice packs
Study: Greenland Ice Sheet was smaller 3000-5000 years ago than today
From the University of Buffalo Clues in the Arctic fossil record suggest that 3-5,000 years ago, the ice sheet was the smallest it has been in the past 10,000 years…
Inverse Underwater Hockey Sticks?
From the University of Toronto, Underwater ‘tree rings’ Calcite crusts of arctic algae record 650 years of sea ice change Almost 650 years of annual change in sea-ice cover can…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 6: Arctic sea ice has most definitely turned the corner – Maslowski is falsified
Plus notes on the ARCUS sea ice forecasting contest As I pointed out on September 16th in Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year – it appears that Arctic sea ice has turned the corner
It looks like the Maslowski Countdown has ended early and there will be no “ice free Arctic” as predicted this year. From NSIDC, which has a 5 day average in…
JAXA timing worst ever – switching Arctic Sea Ice software, right as the minimum is about to happen
It looks as if we are about to see the turn in Arctic sea ice, and if so it will be earlier than last year. But right at that same…
NASA says Arctic sea ice 'Unlikely To Break Records' in 2013
A video animation follows. Note also that Dr. Walt Meier is now with NASA Goddard, after leaving NSIDC at the end of July. This is his first report from NASA.…
A new paper pushes back on the 'Arctic amplification is making extreme weather' idea
There has been much worry that extreme weather is the result of changes in the Arctic. For example: Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, 25 January 2012. The “Arctic Paradox” was coined…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 number 4 – The Maslowski Countdown to an 'ice-free Arctic' begins
A grand experiment is being conducted in the Arctic this year that may not only falsify a prediction made in 2007, but may also further distance a connection between Arctic…
The early chill in the Arctic continues
Temperature above 80 degrees north drops below freezing early, and continues to drop. Many people have been watching the remarkable early drop in air temperature at the DMI plot here:…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 #3 – 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest
We are closing on the Arctic sea ice minimum. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once…
According to this DMI temperature plot, the high Arctic has dropped below freezing about two weeks early
The daily mean temp 80 -90 degrees North has remained below climatological normal for more than 120 days, and has now dropped below freezing Normally, we don’t see this sort…
UW issues statement on the 'North Pole Lake'
From the University of Washington: Santa’s workshop not flooded – but lots of melting in the Arctic By Hannah Hickey Santa’s workshop at the North Pole is not under water,…
Remarkable correlation of Arctic sea ice to solar cycle length
This is interesting, especially since Solar Cycle 23 was quite long. The Hockey Schtick writes: A paper published by the Danish Meteorological Institute finds a remarkable correlation of Arctic sea…
Avaaz! Save the world from a slushy death, just £2
People send me stuff. This is an email solicitation claiming that if you send Avaaz £2 a week (About $3.07 USD at current exchange rate) they’ll somehow be able to help…
A data review to supplement the UK Met Office 'Disappointing Weather Meeting'
A graphical review of 14.5 years disappointing UK weather Guest essay by Neil Catto A meeting today (18th March 2013) took place at the UK Met Office HQ in Exeter.…
Remember that 'unprecedented' Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Never mind
We covered this extensively at WUWT last summer, including the “unprecedented claim” where a researcher said it was a recurring 150 year event that was ‘right on time‘. It turns…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 #2 – The 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest
The race to forecast the minimum is on again. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once…
SEARCH sea ice contest, call for contributions
WUWT has participated for the last two years, and I’ll post up a poll for the WUWT submission tomorrow. In the meantime, you can get a look at the current…
Modeling sea ice loss
From Wiley Study explores atmospheric impact of declining Arctic sea ice There is growing recognition that reductions in Arctic sea ice levels will influence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within…
Climate models getting worse than we thought
New paper finds climate models are getting worse rather than better Via the Hockey Schtick: A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the latest climate models are…
English Winters Back To Normal–Julia Blames Global Warming!
By Paul Homewood According to the Sun, Britain’s winters are getting colder because of melting Arctic ice, the Government’s forecaster said yesterday. Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said climate…
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…
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…
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