Readers may recall the breathless wailing over a brief period of surface melt detected by satellites last year. The way the media and alarmists who drive the media behaved, you’d…
Category: Glaciers
Unprecedented Glacial Chutzpah – just in time for IPCC AR5
From the European Geosciences Union comes some unprecedented chutzpah with this statement from one of the authors at the end of the press release: “This study has been conducted with…
Glacially modeled snow job
From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Alarmism, I think maybe they are a bit unclear on the concept of how glaciers work. As snowfall varies with the…
More on noisy Greenland ice loss data from GRACE
Embracing data ‘noise’ brings Greenland’s complex ice melt into focus by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications, Princeton Universtity An enhanced approach to capturing changes on the Earth’s surface via satellite…
Alaska's Columbia Glacier expected to halt retreat in 2020
From the University of Colorado at Boulder more model output, but at least this is a testable hypothesis in the not too distant future. It also points to the fact…
Glaciergate post script – they'll shrink anyway
From Brigham Young University and the “IPCC, take your 2035 and shove it” department comes this study: Himalayan glaciers will shrink even if temperatures hold steady Come rain or shine,…
Antarctic weight loss seems to be in the eye of the beholder
From Newcastle University New understanding of Antarctic’s weight-loss New data which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better understand how Antarctica is changing in the light…
Untested claim: increased CO2 helps glacier ice to crack
From the Institute of Physics , something so overreaching I just can’t believe the Institute of Physics would put out a press release on it. Where does one start with…
Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?
Perspective by William McClenney on the paper of the same title by: P. C. Tzedakis, E.W. Wolff, L. C. Skinner, V. Brovkin, D. A. Hodell, J. F. McManus, and D.…
Surprise: glaciers in Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930's and 1940's than today
A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930’s and 1940’s than over…
Onset of the Next Glaciation
Guest post by David Archibald Baby boomers like me have enjoyed the most benign period in human history. The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace, we…
'Counterintuitive finding suggests that unexpected factors may govern a glacier's response to climate change'
From the University at Buffalo, new evidence that large ice sheets can grow/disappear quickly on decadal scales in response to regional temperature changes. A descriptive video follows. How fast can…
2012: The Year Greenland Melted (AKA Alarmists Gone Wild) and Manhattan-sized Icebergs!
Guest Post by David Middleton “Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt… Right On Time” I guess Professor Tedesco missed this… “Ice cores from Summit show that melting events…
MSM Finally Questions "Unprecedented" Nature of Greenland Ice Melt
As WUWT readers are aware, there has been a great deal of attention paid by the main stream media to the extensive melt on the Greenland icecap that occurred during July…
Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is 'right on time'
UPDATE: see this new article on the issue, “Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last…
Greenland Ice Sheet albedo drops 'off the bottom of the chart' – but look closer as to why
Got this in the mail just as I posted my open thread announcemnt. I’m too busy this weekend to say much else except to post this tweet from Bill McKibben…
Crack in the Earth: Greenland glacier loses ice island twice the size of Manhattan
It’s business as usual at the Petermann glacier, doing what a glacier does, calving ice into the sea. We reported on another chunk in 2010, four Manhattans in size. Borrowing…
Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm
By Pat Michaels via World Climate Report A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed…
Glaciers can speed up, but can't put out
From the National Science Foundation: Press Release 12-088 Analysis of Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level Researchers determine that although glaciers continue to increase in…
Ice capades – Some Himalayan Glaciers Growing, study suggests a negative sea level rise adjustment
I wonder if Rajenda Pachauri will call this “voodoo science“? A previous study by the UC Santa Barbara found that the Karakoram glaciers are mostly stagnating, possibly due to debris, the…
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