Open Sea Ice Thread

With Sea Ice News # 20 closed here is a place for ongoing discussing the 2010 season. That’s it. I may add a picture later.

Sea Ice News #16

By Steven Goddard, http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the…

Barrow Update

By Steven Goddard, A few days ago I did a post Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record? Since then, the Barrow webcam has started showing open water, which has confused…

Arctic Ice Graphing Lesson Increasing By 50,000 km2 Per Year

By Steven Goddard [see important addendum added to end of article ~ ctm] [Note: The title and conclusion are wrong due to bias in the start/end point of the graph,…

AGW Mathematics : -30 + 5 = 0

By Steven Goddard, From The Vancouver Sun, a survey of leading climate scientists. “More than half the experts think there is a more than 10 per chance we’ll get five…

Penn State Report Released

Online here I don’t have a lot to say about this, but I would suggest reading the comments over at the Climate Audit thread on the subject. The acount of…

Weather vs. Climate

By Steven Goddard I recently had the opportunity to attend a meeting of some top weather modelers. Weather models differ from climate models in that they have to work and…

Amazing Grace

By Steven Goddard, The headline reads “NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica” ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2009) — Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center’s Gravity…

Perhaps the stupidest article I've ever seen

By charles the moderator Here’s the link. I have no other comment. From congress.org Global Warming could make Humans EXTINCT within 50 years Kill mechanisms list Global Warming could make…

Sea Ice News #11

“Steepest slope ever.” By Steven Goddard We have been hearing a lot about how the decline in Arctic ice is following the “steepest slope ever.” The point is largely meaningless,…

The List Goes On …. and On

By Steven Goddard, Surely the world must be coming to an end, preceded by the demise of Arctic Ice. Some of my current favorites are listed below.

Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record?

By Steven Goddard, In my last post, we discussed how there has been no visible change in the landfast ice near Barrow, AK. during the last week. The University of…

Ice Dancing

By Steven Goddard, In order to better visualize what is happening in the Arctic this summer, I generated an animation of satellite photos over the area of open water west…

But, but…we don't really mean the word that way!

From FoxNews and the Sun McCartney, in Interview, Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers Sir Paul McCartney just can’t let it be. The former Beatle predicted in an interview…

The Trend

By Steven Goddard No matter what happens with the summer Arctic ice minimum, NSIDC will report that the long-term trend is downwards.

Global warming's Stephen Schneider: The Light That Failed

Reposted from examiner.com By Tom Fuller The publication this week of a paper titled ‘Expert Credibility in Climate Change’ in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will certainly…

Green Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts

Pajamas media update: There have been some developments since this was published.  The short version is that a series of coincidences led Gabriel Calzada to believe a package was a…

Sea Ice News #10 – September Outlook

By Steven Goddard The Arctic sun has now passed its peak, and is starting its decline towards the horizon over the next 90 days. All four (JAXA NSIDC DMI NORSEX)…

A Climate of Belief

[note, footnote links will only work if you go to original article ~ ctm] Reposted from skeptic.com The following is Patrick Frank’s controversial article challenging data and climate models on…

A New Blacklist

From Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog A New Black List Little did I know it, but I am intimately associated with the world’s most accomplished “climate skeptic.” But he is not…