Guest essay by Robert A. Cook, PE Last week, in my previous article, several critics noted an apparent decline in their Arctic Sea Ice Extents when it dipped back down…
Category: Arctic
North and South Poles: Important Climate Differences
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball A favorite exam question in my first-year climate class was, “Why is the North Pole warmer than the South Pole? I changed it each year,…
NSIDC Mark Serreze's sea ice 'death spiral' no longer 'screaming' on the way down, now termed to be 'erratic & bumpy'
From the University of Colorado at Boulder, where they are apparently attempting to explain away why Arctic sea ice isn’t living up to previous wild claims such as those made…
State of the Sea Ice – January 2015
Guest essay by Robert A Cook, PE Annually, the President is required to address the nation and report on the State of the Union. Other writers here regularly report on…
Al Gore, wrong again – Polar ice continues to thrive
Guest essay by Rolf E. Westgard In his 2007 Noble Prize acceptance speech, former Vice President Al Gore warned that the “Arctic ice could be gone in as little as…
Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show
Happy New Year! Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show Daily Express, 25 December 2014 Levi Winchester THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to…
Arctic Albedo Variations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has just posted the results from a “Press Session” at the AGU conference. In it the authors make two claims of interest. The first…
From #AGU14 – satellites detect albedo change in the Arctic, resulting in more absorbed solar radiation
This press session at AGU conference today had quite a lot to say. Personally, I think the issue of carbon soot forcing is one of the strongest drivers of this,…
Good news from #AGU14 'Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected'
From the “no death spiral” department comes this press release made at AGU from ESA. Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected, according to the…
Moving the goalposts – has Professor Wadhams Explained His Now Changed 'ice-free' Arctic Prediction?
Over the past few years the Arctic expert, Professor Peter Wadhams, has strongly predicted an ‘ice-free’ Arctic no later than 2016. Late this year he changed it to 2020 without…
Claim: Berkeley Lab scientists identify a new driver behind Arctic warming
From: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists have identified a mechanism that could turn out to be a big contributor to warming in the Arctic region and melting sea ice. The…
The bogus fuss over Walrus beach parties: Walrus Haulouts Are Nothing New
From the Global Warming Policy Foundation Dr Susan Crockford explains why the media coverage and statements by scientists and environmental organizations mislead people about the massive walrus haulout seen in…
LEGO advertises their Arctic Industry Collection – Payback for the Greenpeace "everything is awesome" smear?
Eric Worrall writes: WUWT readers might recall a nasty but successful Greenpeace campaign a few months ago, which had Santa Claus drowning in oil, seen above, and pressured LEGO Corporation…
Claim: Recently discovered Arctic microbe is key player in climate change
From the University of Arizona As permafrost soils thaw under the influence of global warming, communities of soil microbes act as potent amplifiers of global climate change, an international study…
I'm not so certain about the Arctic 'death spiral'
Robert Balic writes: I recently read the Willis Eschenbach article Argo, Temperature, and OHC (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/argo-temperature-and-ohc/) which reported the trend in the global ocean temperatures as 0.022 ± 0.002 deg C…
Claim: Arctic sea ice helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere
From the University of Southern Denmark. This is a bit of a surprise, and may well be true, but I’m not too keen on the first couple of paragraphs. Summer…
Weather, Climate, Arctic Ice And The Franklin Expedition
Guest opinion by Dr. Tim Ball | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proudly announced discovery of one of Captain John Franklin’s ships, either the Erebus or Terror. Identification, of which…
New paper links Arctic sea ice extent to absorption of sunlight by clouds
The Hockeyschtick writes: A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds Arctic sea ice concentrations at the low of each summer are related to absorption of…
1960's satellite imagery of polar ice discovers “enormous holes” in the sea ice
NSIDC has announced the discovery and recovery of space footage of Earth’s polar icecaps, dating back to 1964. The recovered photographs have yielded some startling surprises, according to David Gallaher,…
Has Arctic sea ice made the 'end of melt season' turn prematurely this year?
It seems possible, given the sort of year it has been. This plot from DMI shows what appears to be the classic “end of melt season” turn in sea ice…
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