The April 1st National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Sea Ice Extent plot continues its unusual upwards trend and is almost intersecting the “normal” line. Given the slope of…
Category: Arctic
New paper – AGW sooners, stake your "drill baby drill" ice free claims now!
Richard North of the EU Referendum sends word of this new paper. I’m sure Greenpeace won’t be amused as more polar bears turn into dumpster divers with this new influx…
Arctic Sea Ice about to hit 'normal' – what will the news say?
Forecasting The NSIDC News By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice…
Ice Station Ztupid
Well I’ve ignored the “new” Catlin Arctic survey as long as I can. Like last year, they’ve gone off the deep ends of the earth with wacky claims. Apparently the…
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:…
The Guardian sees the light on wind driven Arctic ice loss
First, we pointed this out quite some time ago. See: Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses and also NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face…
Baltic sea ice traps ships
There’s a lot of buzz about this in the blogosphere because of the constant barrage of alarming reports being fed by the media on Arctic sea ice melt. As we…
NSIDC Confirms WUWT Ice Forecast
by Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts In late 2009, Anthony forecast that Arctic sea ice would continue to recover in 2010. Last month Steve Goddard did an analysis explaining why…
JPL: Missing ice in 2007 drained out the Nares strait – pushed south by wind where it melted far away from the Arctic
This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven. A significant portion of the…
Gore on the Arctic (again)
ANOTHER BOLD PREDICTION OF AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC Guest post by Mark Johnson Al Gore trumpets the latest conclusions of Climate Change Advocate David Barber. “Sea ice in Canada’s fragile Arctic…
Diverging views
The GISS Temperature Record Divergence Problem Guest post by Tilo Reber In connection with James Hansen’s explanation of why his GISS temperature record diverges from that of HadCRUT, I decided…
Arctic temperatures above 80°N are the lowest in six years
UPDATE: Easy come, easy go, the sharp decline has popped back up to near normal in the space of a couple days. See the end of the story for update.…
IPCC scientist: Global cooling headed our way for the next 30 years?
UPDATE: The subject of this article, Mojib Latif, has challenged the Daily Mail article and it’s interpretation. In another story at the Guardian, Latif says the interpretation by the Daily…
This WUWT article from 2008 was on Fox News tonight
From WUWT on March 16, 2008, we found this article and it is now just getting national news exposure. I’m bringing it forward again since there has been a lot…
USGS: Arctic sea too warm for sea ice 3 million years ago
This is a paleoclimatology finding, with current spin added. I guess they haven’t seen the latest on the NAO and AO. USGS Press Release: Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free…
The Arctic Oscillation Index goes strongly negative
In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate…
"rotten" sea ice – not even in Denmark
There’s plenty of stories about how Arctic sea ice is now “rotten”. There’s darn few that talk about yearly comparisons or what other scientific outlets are saying about the claim.…
Arctic warming goes with the floe
Past Arctic Warming Also Created by Currents Guest posted by Jeff Id of The Air Vent I’ve stated here on several occasions that the ‘Recent’ Arctic ice thinning is more likely…
Met Office Climate Official on Arctic Ice Forecasts: "The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering."
I’ve been very critical of statements made by Dr. Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It seems that I’m not the only one critical of his…
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