by Jill Sakai, University of Wisconsin Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results — including an early finding about a…
Category: Antarctic
Get your ice here! New WUWT Sea Ice Machine
Tired of surfing the net to get all the widely spread sea ice graphs and images? I got your back. Introducing the WUWT Sea Ice Machine. Given the intense interest…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier – part 2
Yesterday, Dr. Meier commented on PIPS -VS- PIOMAS, here is Part 2 Here are some thoughts on three other sea ice issues addressed in recent posts: (1) concentration vs. extent,…
A note about before and after at NSIDC
Some readers may have noticed the sharp uptick at NSIDC for the Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent, as highlighted in WUWT Sea Ice News #13: Here is how it looks…
CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations
From the European Space Agency 070110 Participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA’s most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite…
Antarctic sea ice peaks at third highest in the satellite record
While everyone seems to be watching the Arctic extent with intense interest, it’s bipolar twin continues to make enough ice to keep the global sea ice balance near normal. These…
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…
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…
New research sheds light on Antarctica's melting Pine Island Glacier
From Physorg.com New results from an investigation into Antarctica’s potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS),…
Hot Times in Antarctica
From the “I told you Angry Penguins were the new icon” department From Time The world’s polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge…
Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last
From Newsdesk.org And we thought we knew Earth’s mountains. Nope. Radar imagery Scientists at the International Polar Year conference in Norway this week revealed startling new images of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range…
CryoSat passes first operational tests
From the European Space Agency, it looks like CryoSat-2 is working well. I’m sure we are all looking forward to seeing what the results are. ESA’s ice mission delivers first…
Cryo-sat launch successful
Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite From the European Space Agency: 8 April 2010 ESA PR 07-2010. Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today…
Arctic sea ice continues to rise past the normal peak date
I’ve been watching this NSIDC graph for a few days, figuring it was just noise. Now, it looks like “something worth blogging about“. The Arctic sea ice extent is continuing…
Why Joe Bastardi sees red: A look at Sea Ice and GISTEMP and starting choices
AcuuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi has a question about two datasets and asks: If it is darn warm, how come there is so much sea ice? Bastardi asks a simple question:…
NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea Ice is Increasing
By Steven Goddard Last month we discussed how NASA continues to spread worries about the Antarctic warming and melting. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has…
IPCC AR4 Commenter: "I do not understand why this trend is insignificant – it is more than three times the quoted error estimates”
Yet Another Incorrect IPCC Assessment: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase by Chip Knappenberger March 8, 2010 Another error in the influential reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports…
Scientists Locate Apparent Hydrothermal Vents off Antarctica
The title is from Columbia, and I should point out that this discovery on the Pacific Antarctic Ridge is 2800 miles from tip of the Antarctic peninsula, where volcanic activity…
A question to the USGS and NPR
Which of these states is closest to 20,000 square kilometers in area? UPDATE: USGS has issued a statement, see below. WUWT reader “DC” points us to this Gore-esque pronouncement from…
IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%
From World Climate Report: Another IPCC Error: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% Figure 1. Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio,…
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