UPDATE: Dr. Walt Meier of NSIDC writes in with some information, seethe end of the article. I’m getting weary of answering this question in comments, so here it is front…
Category: Arctic
Nansen Corrects Sea Ice Data – Sea Ice Extent Now Greater, Near Normal for Most of April/May
By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts From Steve: In May, WUWT reported on an apparent error in the Nansen ice extent data. It appears that we were correct, as Nansen…
Another Look At Polar Amplification
Posted by invitation, from Bob Tisdale’s website – original here. Photo/caption below added by Anthony. Guest post by Bob Tisdale On two occasions I’ve attempted to leave a comment at…
An update on the NSIDC satellite sensor issue
I missed this June 2nd NSIDC announcement while traveling this week, but here it is now, just a few days late. For those of you that have been inquiring about…
Arctic Sea Ice Time Lapse from 1978 to 2009 using NSIDC data
Jeff Id at the Air Vent has been doing some interesting work lately. Before the NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice anomaly plot went kaput due to failure of the satellite sensor…
NSIDC pulls the plug on Arctic Sea Ice Graphs
During the the last week, NSIDC graphs of arctic sea ice extent have been dropping so steeply that many have called them into question. Finally NSIDC ended the daily updates…
Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument…
Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: "looks like I've boobed"
Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” The Guardian’s George Monbiot suffers (at his own expense) from excessive zeal in trying to disprove a statement by Telegraph Columnist, Christopher Booker, in his…
The Guardian Relocates The North Pole By 500km
By Steven Goddard The Catlin crew was picked up this week, after completing less than 50% of their planned journey to the North Pole and coming up about 500km short.…
Arctic (Non) Warming Since 1958
Guest Post by Steven Goddard From time to time we hear that various places on earth have been “warming much faster than the rest of the planet – as predicted…
'90% of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age'
From the American Thinker The Coming Ice Age By David Deming Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk. In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Packing It Up – What Have They Accomplished?
Guest Post by Steven Goddard http://www.surfersvillage.com/gal/pictures/ArcticSunbathe-Francois_Len.jpg According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week. I believe that they have done a fantastic job…
The "precarious state of the U.S. polar bear population"
Today’s MSM is woefully inept at catching mistakes. Worse, reporters are often woefully inadequate at getting facts straight in the first place. And, with instant electronic distribution, it is much…
Global Warming clause won't be used to protect polar bears, ecos plan to sue
On one hand, we have a sensible decision, on the other, no good deed goes unpunished. – Anthony From the Los Angeles Times U.S. global warming rules won’t change to…
NSIDC vs. NANSEN vs. AMSR-E
Guest post by Steven Goddard In my May 1st piece, Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC hypothesized that differences in algorithm between NSIDC and NANSEN (NORSEX) were causing the gap between…
A question for the Catlin Arctic Survey: what happens to the fuel drums?
An interesting question has arisen. Is it OK to pollute the Arctic Sea so long as the quest is “noble”? The Catlin Arctic Ice Survey likes to promote their trek…
Mayday – May Day!
Guest post by Steven Goddard NSIDC Arctic Ice Extent Just a few pixels from “average”. May 1st is May Day . “Mayday” is a universally understood distress call signifying that…
What Is Normal Arctic Ice Extent?
Guest post by Steven Goddard I have been noticing in recent weeks that NSIDC extent is much closer to their 1979-2000 mean than NANSEN is to their 1979-2007 mean. This…
Inconvenient Eisdicken – "surprising results" from the Arctic
This is a news story from Germany outlining another Arctic ice measurement expedition. This one was conducted by flying the scientists across the north polar ice cap using the WWII…
Catlin Crew Out Of Time
Guest post by Steve Goddard An Arctic Blizzard As reported here two weeks ago, April 30 is the last safe date to recover explorers from the Arctic. The people who…
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