First, I loathe having to write another story about Pen Hadow and his Catlin Arctic Ice expedition, which I consider the scientific joke of 2009. But these opportunistic explorers are…
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Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Packing It Up – What Have They Accomplished?
Guest Post by Steven Goddard http://www.surfersvillage.com/gal/pictures/ArcticSunbathe-Francois_Len.jpg According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week. I believe that they have done a fantastic job…
A question for the Catlin Arctic Survey: what happens to the fuel drums?
An interesting question has arisen. Is it OK to pollute the Arctic Sea so long as the quest is “noble”? The Catlin Arctic Ice Survey likes to promote their trek…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: paid advertising of results before they are even off the ice!
Sharp eyed WUWT reader Rick K spotted this advertisement on Yahoo News: I double checked what Rick K reported, and yes, they are running this ad. Either they just don’t…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey first report offers no original drilling data, but anecdotally confirms satellite measurement
Note: One of the many integrity issues with Catlin is that none of their photos can be dated. Even embedded EXIF information (including date/time done by most digital cameras in…
Busted: Catlin Arctic Ice Survey "Didn't Expect" To Find First Year Ice
The farcical account of the Catlin Crew continues. You don’t even have to dig deep anymore to find as many holes in their stories as they say they are drilling.…
Catlin Arctic Survey gives up on ice radar – "much less likely to reach pole"
From the “we told you so” department. Gotta love this quote from Pen Hadow: “It’s never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the…
What if the Catlin Arctic Ice Survey is for naught?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Hell Hath No Fury…. Catlin team member Ann Daniels had another very difficult day. Today has been a difficult day of highs and lows, particularly…
Can the Catlin Arctic Survey Team Cover 683 km in the Next 21 Days?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Click for a larger map – ice extent overlay provided by Catlin KML file, annotated map by Anthony Watts from data provided by the Catlin…
Catlin Arctic Survey website recycles biotelemetry data?
UPDATES WE HAVE UPDATES: 8 updates to this story have been posted – see below the “read the rest of this entry” line. It appears most if not all of…
Bad news for Catlin Expedition: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March
Guest Post by Steven Goddard As reported by Anthony, RSS satellite temperature data is out for March. And as the Catlin adventurers have discovered, it has been “stupidly cold” in…
NASA and multi-year Arctic ice and historical context
Over at NASA, they have a press release about old Arctic sea ice disappearing since 1980, including a helpful comparison widget that splits the before and after for comparison. I’ll…
WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #5
By Steve Goddard Arctic non-warming since 1938 The Catlin Arctic Survey arrived at the North Pole this week. Described as three of ‘the world’s toughest’ explorers, Ann Daniels, Charlie Paton…
WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #4
By Steve Goddard The Catlin Expedition is Now only 45 miles away from the North Pole. They have traveled 265 miles (as the crow flies) since March 3, for an…
Is Melting Ice Warming The Arctic?
By Steve Goddard Guardian photo : Ann Daniels Enjoying The Warming Arctic Yesterday, WUWT reported on a University of Melbourne study claiming that melting ice is behind the warming of…
Arctic Sea Ice about to hit 'normal' – what will the news say?
Forecasting The NSIDC News By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice…
Catlin Team Averaging 1.7 Miles Per Day – Only 295 Miles Left to Go!
The Catlin team has been on the ice for 10 days, and has traveled a total of 17 miles so far as the crow flies. At that rate, they will…
UK Met Office backpedals on Arctic Ice – "…unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020."
But they do say that “first ice-free summer expected to occur between 2060 and 2080”. By then there will be nobody that remembers this forecast. Yet on the same day,…
Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument…
Inconvenient Eisdicken – "surprising results" from the Arctic
This is a news story from Germany outlining another Arctic ice measurement expedition. This one was conducted by flying the scientists across the north polar ice cap using the WWII…
Catlin Crew Out Of Time
Guest post by Steve Goddard An Arctic Blizzard As reported here two weeks ago, April 30 is the last safe date to recover explorers from the Arctic. The people who…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on Catlin and Ice Survey Techniques
Walt sent me this essay unsolicited, and I think it is very useful for establishing some baseline techniques. There’s more useful information on techniques here than in the entire Catlin…
New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic Springtime Ice On The Mend Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/ Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels. The Japanese site IJIS…
Why Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year
Guest post by Steven Goddard In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew, AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about “melting ice…
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