From the “we told you so” department, it seems they are just now catching up with observations. Black carbon aerosols–particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural…
Category: Arctic
Oh Noes!!! "Crocodiles and Palm Trees in the Arctic? New Report Suggests Yes."
“It’s the most dire prediction yet”!!! Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. By Marianne Lavelle PUBLISHED MAY 23, 2016 In even the bleakest climate change…
Politico: 40% Surge in Orders for New Ice Hardened Petroleum Transporters
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Politico reports that Finland’s Ship Building Industry is experiencing a bumper year, as Paris Climate Agreement signatories celebrate the new global environmental accord, by massively…
More satellite problems with Arctic Sea Ice measurement
A few years ago in 2009, I was the first to notice and write about a failure of the instrumentation for one of the satellites used by the National Snow…
Arctic sea ice wintertime extent sees a record low
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice…
Missing from climate models: Unaccounted for Arctic microbes appear to be speeding up glacier melting
From the SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY and the “department of robusted models” comes this Today, at the Microbiology Society’s Annual Conference in Liverpool, scientists will reveal how Arctic microbes are…
Video: USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfaces at the Arctic circle for ICEX 2016
New video of submarine surfacing through ice. By Mike Goad ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 10, 2016) USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfaces in the Arctic Circle near Ice Camp Sargo during Ice Exercise…
A Warming Arctic Would Not Cause Increased Severe Weather or Temperature Extremes
Guest essay by Chuck Wiese, Meteorologist, Weatherwise, Inc. This essay is a critique Francis and Vavrus (2012), hereinafter FV (2012), by atmospheric scientists Jennifer Francis from Rutgers University and Steve…
The Ice Was All Between
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do my best to maintain my sense of awe regarding the things I study. I’ve had the good fortune in my life to be…
DMI apologizes for their disappeared sea-ice graph debacle
Earlier this week, I published a post titled: DMI disappears an inconvenient sea ice graph . Some of the usual folks who police any sea ice discussion went ballistic over the post,…
It's official! You can stop worrying about "climate change" effects on the polar bears, seals, and walrus – they've seen it all before, including ice-free summers
Paleoclimate + genetic study confirms: Arctic species adapted to sea ice changes Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years…
Filling in the sparse Arctic weather data
From RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS Optimized arctic observations for improving weather forecast in the northern sea route The current reduction in Arctic sea-ice extent causes unpredictable weather phenomena…
More scientific evidence that polar bears are doing just fine – a 30 42% increase in population with some of them “as fat as pigs.”
Guest essay by Dr. Susan J. Crockford of polarbearscience.com * see update below on the % number Survey Results: Svalbard polar bear numbers increased 30 42% over last 11 years Results…
The 2015 Arctic Report Card: NOAA Failed Walrus Science!
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Good scientists fully understand that complex issues with high uncertainties require two or more working…
Claim: Melting sea ice increases Arctic precipitation, complicates climate predictions
From DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and the “Reports of the demise of Arctic Sea Ice are greatly exaggerated” department HANOVER, N.H. – The melting of sea ice will significantly increase Arctic precipitation, creating…
NCAR: winter sea ice could hold steady in the next several years
NCAR develops method to predict sea ice changes years in advance From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH and the “we know so we’ll put that…
Claim: Arctic sea ice plays a pivotal role in the Arctic methane cycle
Nature study on greenhouse gas feedback mechanisms between the atmosphere, sea ice and ocean From the ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH The ice-covered Arctic Ocean…
Breaking news! Fire melts permafrost.
From the department of Obvious Science, the “Surface Albedo Collective” and the University of Alaska comes this stunner of a press release. Research links tundra fires, thawing permafrost UNIVERSITY OF…
The 'Arctic 21' to call for renewed permafrost alarm ahead of Paris COP21, says 'The Arctic is unraveling'
From WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER and the Peter Wadhams is still wrong, no record low this year department, comes this overt hand-wringing worry over permafrost, most of which is about…
Shell to quit US Arctic due to "unpredictable federal regulatory environment"
Guest post by David Middleton Disappointing results from an initial rank wildcat can’t kill a play. The cyclical ups and downs of product prices can’t kill a play. High operating…
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