Tag Archives: West Antarctica

Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking headlines… Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica, New York Times (WUWT commentary) West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate, BBC West Antarctica warming much … Continue reading →

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New ice loss unit – the New Jersey

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

From the University of Texas at Austin, an ice shelf as big as New Jersey might collapse, if conditions are right. Tipping points and all that. I suspect this gives notice to the press that we are switching from Manhattans … Continue reading →

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NASA: Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

Breaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really makes all the hype over the now discredited Steig et al. paper, which attempted to establish an air temperature warming trend as one of the … Continue reading →

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More crack in the Antarctic

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

From the European Space Agency (ESA): Satellite observes rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic 5 April 2012 As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due … Continue reading →

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Crack in the Antarctic!

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could be tragic, except, well, sea ice in Antarctica is growing. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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