UIT THE ARCTIC UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY Research News 10,000 km2 of ice disappeared in a blink of an eye from an ice sheet in the Storfjorden Through offshore Svalbard, a…
Category: Glaciers
Very Inconvenient Alps Glacier History…Top Glaciologists: Alps Were Ice-Free 6000 Years Ago
In his video, the German geologist presents a new paper authored by glaciologists Bohleber et al, 2020 of the Austrian Academy of Science. The Austrian-Swiss team discovered from ice cores…
How to Scare and Deceive without Lying: JPL Cries Wolf about Polar Glacial Melt
Yesterday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published “The Anatomy of Glacial Ice Loss.” For the most part it’s an interesting, though not particularly revolutionary, discussion of the various forces that add…
Glacier National Park quietly removed ‘Gone by 2020’ signs in 2019—Update
One of our biggest stories of the year was: Glacier National Park quietly removed ‘Gone by 2020’ signs Here is a video update by Roger Roots. Throughout Glacier National Park,…
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
Researchers believe other mountaintop glaciers will follow quickly Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio — The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next…
Decades-old pollutants melting out of Himalayan glaciers
Hmmmm….bolding mine~ctm From AGU 31 July 2019 Posted by larryohanlon By Mary Caperton Morton Melting Himalayan glaciers are releasing decades of accumulated pollutants into downstream ecosystems, according to a new…
Underwater glacial melting is occurring at higher rates than modeling predicts
University of Oregon-led team uses a new approach to directly measure submarine melt, uncovering data that could enhance projections of sea level changes University of Oregon VIDEO: Video made from…
Another heartbreaking story of climate doom!
Looks as if Larry has determined more about the story we made fun of here. Reposted from Fabius Maximus blog Larry Kummer, Editor Climate change 24 July 2019 Summary: Another…
Monday Mirthiness – ‘scientists’ to give eulogy, commemorative plaque to a glacier
From Rice University and the “staged climate photo-op, aka please send money” department. HOUSTON – (July 18, 2019) – Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change will be remembered with…
Glacier National Park Quietly Removes Its ‘Gone by 2020’ Signs
Glaciers Appear to be Growing, not Melting in Recent Years By Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D., Founder, Lysander Spooner University May 30, 2019. St. Mary, Montana. Officials at Glacier National…
Glacier National Park Quietly Removes Its ‘Gone by 2020’ Signs
Glaciers Appear to be Growing, not Melting in Recent Years By Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D., Founder, Lysander Spooner University May 30, 2019. St. Mary, Montana. Officials at Glacier National…
The polar ice melt myth
From CFACT: According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org), ice currently covers 6 million square miles, or one tenth the Land area on Earth, about the area…
Inconvenient: NASA says a Greenland glacier did an about-face – growing again
“…scientists were so shocked to find the change.” From NASA JPL: Cold Water Currently Slowing Fastest Thinning Greenland Glacier NASA research shows that Jakobshavn Glacier, which has been Greenland’s fastest-flowing…
End of Ice: Voodoo Science Himalayan Glacier Crisis Rises from the Dead
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you thought the “Voodoo Science” Himalayan glacier crisis died when its main backer, former IPCC head and alleged sex pest Rajendra Pachauri was forced…
Climate change leading to water shortage in Andes, Himalayas Rapidly melting glaciers causing similar problems on two continents
Heeeerrrreeee’ss Lonnie (Lonnie Thompson has a whole category at Climate Audit) From Eurekalert Public Release: 17-Dec-2018 Ohio State University Climate change could have devastating effects on vulnerable residents in the…
Observing glaciers in “real time”
From ETH Zurich and the “slow as molasses in winter” department. Hot summers cause glaciers to melt. That not only changes the makeup of the landscape and hence the maps…
NASA finds dirty glaciers in Alaska – may melt faster
Over the years, scientists have captured spectacular photographs while mapping ice during NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission. Many of the photographs have featured the icy landscapes of Greenland and Antarctica, over which lengthy…
Surprise! Study says some glaciers actually shrank during the last ice age
The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice sheets expanded around the planet. That may hold true for most of Europe and North…
Glaciers and Sea Level Rise
By Andy May This is the seventh and last post in my series on the hazards of climate change. In this post we examine the effects of climate change on…
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