[heat source] Plays critical role in movement, melting Via Eurekalert KINGSTON, R.I. — June 22, 2018 — A researcher from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and…
Category: Antarctic
Worse than they thought: Antarctica actually colder than scientists once believed
From the AGU and the “but, but, the continent is melting!” department. COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH IS COLDER THAN SCIENTISTS THOUGHT WASHINGTON — Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s…
Study provides less gloom and doom about Antarctica
Antarctic ice sheet is melting, but rising bedrock below could slow it down COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY An international team, led by DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark with…
NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally puts the hammer down: ‘Antarctica is gaining ice’
A new paper about to be in press, comes at the end of a flurry of papers and reports published this week that claims Antarctica was losing ice mass. Zwally…
Inconvenient: Antarctica’s Ice Sheet May Be More Durable Than We Thought
On the same day that WaPo and other alarmist media outlets were wailing about a small loss in Antarctic ice balance, another study came out. This study found that the…
Can Humans Melt the Antarctic Icecap?
Can we puny humans produce enough energy to melt the huge icecap? Some math helps. Guest essay by Julius Sanks When discussing climate with people who do not have technical backgrounds,…
Big increase is Antarctic Snowfall helps to prevent sea level rise
From The EGU via the BBC: When scientists looked at Antarctic snowfall over the past 200 years they found a “significant” increase, up to 10%. In the decade 2001-2010, some 272…
The Penguins Smoking Hockey Schtick
Guest essay by James Wanliss It is a tough life in Antarctica. Average winter temperature at the South Pole is about -49°C. The coldest temperature ever recorded by a thermometer…
More Polar Scientists Stuck in the Ice
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart / James Delingpole – US scientists appealed to Argentina for help when the US icebreaker Laurence M Gould failed to break through the…
Remember when we were told "Penguins Don’t Migrate, they’re dying!" ? – never mind
WUWT readers may remember this story from last year, where Chris Turney, leader of the ill fated “ship of fools” Spirit of Mawson expedition that go stuck in Antarctic sea…
Oh No: Global Warming might Force Penguins to Move
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If we don’t immediately shut down global CO2 emissions, by the end of the century some Penguins might have to move to different islands –…
Ross Ice Shelf Freezing, Not Melting: “It blew our minds.”
Guest post by David Middleton Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected Scientists will leave sensors in the hole to better understand the long-term changes in…
Fubar Science from @UCDavis – Coping with climate stress in Antarctica
Coping with climate stress in Antarctica Some polar fish can cope with warming or ocean acidification, but not both together Some Antarctic fish living in the planet’s coldest waters are…
Study: strong El Niño events increase height and mass of Antarctic ice shelves
From UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography New study reveals strong El Niño events cause large changes in Antarctic ice shelves A new study published Jan. 8 in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that…
Dueling science: One study says melting Antarctic ice sheet will flood US east coast, others say ‘uncertain’
From the “you really should get your stories straight” department. OK, here is press release #1 from the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) Melting of east Antarctic ice sheet could…
New map of Antarctic geothermal heat suggests Steig & Mann 2009 weren’t measuring ‘global warming’
This is quite interesting. Remember the claim in on the front cover of Nature in 2009 by Steig and Mann that Antarctica was warming, thanks to that “special Mannian PCA…
NASA: volcanic magma plume under Antarctica may explain ice sheet instability
From NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory and the “inconvenient science” department comes this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity. Hot News from the Antarctic…
A normal part of nature – sea ice retreat in Antarctica
From the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ‘Scars’ left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat ten thousand years ago – occurred under climate conditions that were relatively similar to those of today. Thousands…
Penguins devastated by “unseasonably extensive amounts of sea ice.”
Guest “drive by” by David Middleton Alternate Title: “Tarantino does ‘Happy Feet’” Is Antarctica gaining ice? 01:47 (CNN) A penguin colony in Antarctica has suffered a massive breeding failure, with only…
News From Vostok Ice Cores
Guest essay by Richard Taylor Introduction Our current understanding climate was influenced profoundly by the publication (J.R. Petit, et al., 1999) of deuterium (2H) measurements from metre 8 to metre…
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