Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – "worse than we thought"

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet…

Earth's Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except…

A demonstration of Chladni Patterns

Post submitted by John A. Readers of Climate Audit will have noted Steve McIntyre  mentioning Chladni patterns in respect to the results of some climate reconstructions which exhibit spacial autocorrelation…

Radar mapping reveals ancient Antarctic giant fjords

From the University of Texas at Austin New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create…

Steig on Antarctic warming: "Rossby wave trains"

From the University of Washington, comes this upcoming paper by corresponding author Dr. Eric Steig (and co-authors)that the mechanism for warming of the Antarctic Peninsula is mostly weather pattern driven.…

Icebergs, phytoplankton, and CO2 – negative feedback

Via Lewis Page at the Register: Some cheerful news on the climate change front today, as US government boffins report that ice breaking off the Antarctic shelves and melting in…

Antarctic ice models "not correct", sea level rise "complicated"

There’s some surprising reaction to the press release we covered on WUWT recently. Here’s some excerpts:

East Antarctic Ice Sheet getting thicker from underneath

From AAAS online: Widespread Persistent Thickening of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet by Freezing from the Base Abstract An International Polar Year aerogeophysical investigation of the high interior of East…

The Spectator on the Antarctic Ice Capades

Nicolas Lewis and Matt Ridley have written a scathing article in the Spectator (UK) regarding the treatment of O’Donnell et al during the peer review and post peer review process.…

A viewpoint on the Antarctic warming debate

Antarctic temperature plots through the history of the debate: NASA 2004: NASA 2007: Steig et al 2009: O’Donnell et al 2010:   Some historical perspective: “If your result needs a…

O’Donnell Responds to Steig

From Climate Audit, more on the ongoing Antarctic kerfluffle. By Ryan O’Donnell Subsequent to my post on Feb 7, 2010 here, Eric Steig informed me by email that he had…

Coffin, meet nail. – more on Steig's reconstruction issues

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…

Some interesting thoughts on Antarctic peninsula warming

Since there is a discussion going on over at RC on Eric Steig’s recent RC post here that criticizes the paper by O’Donnell et al. in the Journal of Climate,…

Another overhyped global warming claim bites the dust

Longtime readers of WUWT may remember this story from 2008: Nutty Story of the Day: “Global Warming” is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica The root of this goes back as far…

Skeptic paper on Antarctica accepted – rebuts Steig et al

In a blow to the Real Climate “hockey team” one team member’s paper, Steig et al Nature, Jan 22, 2009 (seen at left) has been shown lacking. Once appropriate statistical…

Antarctic sea ice increase not linked to ozone hole

From the AGU Weekly Journal Highlights While sea ice extent has declined dramatically in the Arctic in recent years, it has increased slightly in the Antarctic. Some scientists have suggested…

GRACE under fire

Guest post by Thomas Fuller It is hard to understand many of those who are convinced that climate change will destroy civilization. Previous ideas about massive sea level rise or…

Geography is hard

My local alternate weekly in Chico has a “Green Guide”. This week’s lead story was “Scientists break ice in Greenland”. There’s only one problem.

Dr. Curry Warms the Southern Ocean

UPDATE: 8/18 10:30AM I spoke with Dr. Judith Curry by telephone today, and she graciously offered the link to the full paper here, and has added this graphic to help…

Georgia Tech on: "the paradox of the Antarctic sea ice"

Antarctic sea ice today from the University of Bremen, on track for a new record high this year: From Georgia Tech’s Judith Curry: “Our finding raises some interesting possibilities about…