What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER”? Or maybe…
Category: Arctic
Bad news from NSIDC
Last year we had the forecast from NSIDC’s Dr. Mark Serreze of an “ice free north pole”. As we know, that didn’t even come close to being true. Summer 2008…
Media addicted to "melt", when it it should be "crack"?
Guest post by Steven Goddard What is Wrong with this Picture? http://www.ogleearth.com/wissm.jpg The picture of the Wilkins Ice Shelf cracks is itself fine, and the news media loves it so…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: paid advertising of results before they are even off the ice!
Sharp eyed WUWT reader Rick K spotted this advertisement on Yahoo News: I double checked what Rick K reported, and yes, they are running this ad. Either they just don’t…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on Catlin and Ice Survey Techniques
Walt sent me this essay unsolicited, and I think it is very useful for establishing some baseline techniques. There’s more useful information on techniques here than in the entire Catlin…
New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic Springtime Ice On The Mend Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/ Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels. The Japanese site IJIS…
Busted: Catlin Arctic Ice Survey "Didn't Expect" To Find First Year Ice
The farcical account of the Catlin Crew continues. You don’t even have to dig deep anymore to find as many holes in their stories as they say they are drilling.…
Why Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year
Guest post by Steven Goddard In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew, AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about “melting ice…
Catlin Arctic Survey gives up on ice radar – "much less likely to reach pole"
From the “we told you so” department. Gotta love this quote from Pen Hadow: “It’s never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the…
Watching the 2007 historic low sea ice flow out of the Arctic Sea
One of the common misconceptions pushed in the media is that Arctic sea ice simply “melts in place”. Much of this is due to the constant hammering of the AGW…
Can the Catlin Arctic Survey Team Cover 683 km in the Next 21 Days?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Click for a larger map – ice extent overlay provided by Catlin KML file, annotated map by Anthony Watts from data provided by the Catlin…
NASA GISS suggests aerosols play a large role in Arctic warming
The Discovery Channel has “shark week”. With all the Arctic news items on WUWT, this is beginning to feel like “polar week”. Here’s an article about aerosols having an impact…
Was 2007 Arctic ice really a historic minimum?
Since we have been on the subject of Arctic expeditions this week, I thought I’d share this short essay sent to me by WUWT reader “thoughtful”. It has some interesting…
WUWT Ice Survey Shows Thickening Arctic Ice
Guest post by Steven Goddard The WUWT Arctic Ice Thickness Survey has been conducted from the comfort of a warm living room over the last half hour, without sponsors, excessive…
Catlin Arctic Survey website recycles biotelemetry data?
UPDATES WE HAVE UPDATES: 8 updates to this story have been posted – see below the “read the rest of this entry” line. It appears most if not all of…
Polar Ice Worries – North and South
Guest post by Steven Goddard From The Washington Post : Norway’s foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, painted a stark picture of the climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.…
NSIDC Raises The Bar
Guest post by Steven Goddard In past years, NSIDC has referred to “declining multi-year ice” as the problem which the Arctic faces. Mark Serreze at NSIDC forecast a possible “Ice Free…
Bad news for Catlin Expedition: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March
Guest Post by Steven Goddard As reported by Anthony, RSS satellite temperature data is out for March. And as the Catlin adventurers have discovered, it has been “stupidly cold” in…
Admiration For The Catlin Explorers
Guest post by Steve Goddard Polar Bear On Thin Ice It is easy to become cynical about the motivations of some prominent figures in the global warming movement, but there…
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