From the University of Colorado at Boulder, worry over something that is a natural process that has happened for thousands of years. You gotta love this one: ” Catastrophic lake…
Category: Glaciers
Titanic Anniversary: Unusual Climate + Extreme Ice Conditions = Tragic Accident
Guest Post by Dr. Tim Ball April 14th is the anniversary of Titanic‘s collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The event occurred at 41° 46′ N and 50°…
More Glacial Junk Science Journalism
[Note: this post (and a few others) was lost in WordPress, and I had no notification of its existence. While a bit dated, it is still valid – note to…
"The end for small glaciers" or anthropogenic circular reasoning?
Guest Post by David Middleton Breathtaking news from Nature… Published online 9 January 2011 | Nature News The end for small glaciers IPCC estimates of sea level rise corroborated, but…
Dust deposition linked to glacier melt
From the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the Department of “The Albedo made me do it” comes further proof of what we have been…
IPCC's Pachauri's "voodoo science" claim comes full circle
WUWT readers may recall that when the “Himalayan Glaciers will melt by 2035” error was first revealed, IPCC chairman Rajenda Pachauri famously labeled claims of the mistake “voodoo science”and then…
Greenland's pronounced glacier retreat not irreversible
Via the AGU weekly highlights: In recent decades, the combined forces of climate warming and short-term variability have forced the massive glaciers that blanket Greenland into retreat, with some scientists…
The Message in the Dye 3 Data
Guest post by David Archibald The story so far: in this recent post – Ap Index Neutrons and Climate, we had looked at the Dye 3 oxygen isotope-derived temperature record…
James Balog's inconvenient glacial canaries
Anytime I see the “canary in the coal mine” phrase being applied to some phenomenon related to climate, I know right away that the person using it hasn’t really put…
The Portland State University study of shrinking Mt. Adams glaciers—a good example of bad science.
By Don J. Easterbrook, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The recent Portland State University study of glaciers on Mt. Adams by is a good example of bad…
RealClimate's Steig: Pacific SST's influencing Antarctic melt, no link to human causes demonstrated
WUWT readers may recall the Nature cover with this picture of Antarctica at left, followed by the subsequent falsification of the Antarctic warming claims made by Steig et al using…
Arrrggh! Let's help Time with Pachy's "voodoo science"
UPDATE: WUWT Gets results – Time fixes the error! See below. Reader HowardW sends this tip. Almost two years after the discovery of this ridiculous error, once labeled “voodoo science”…
New study shows temperature in Greenland significantly warmer than present several times in the last 4000 years
Kobashi et al 2011 was just published in GRL, and it looks like it will be upsetting the paleoclimate apple cart. The conclusions of Kaufman et al 2009 look to…
Extreme melting in Greenland – no high temperatures required
From the City College of New York: Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet, Reports CCNY Team Glacial Melt Cycle Could Become Self-Amplifying, Making it Difficult to Halt The Greenland…
Another Climate FAIL: New Research Casts Doubt on Doomsday Himalayan Water Shortage Predictions
Barry Woods writes via email: Previously: (at Copenhagen) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “In 25 years the glaciers that provide water for 3/4 of a billion people will disapear entirely”…
Icy skepticism hits Slashdot
I noted yesterday this story in Slashdot: Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years The CBC reports on new research that shows thousand-year-old ice shelves (much different than sea ice)…
Complaints over false info in new Times World Atlas grow
Yesterday we pointed out how an island shown on a map 50 years ago was cited (because it appears today and was finally given a name) as “proof” of Greenland…
NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow
First complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, derived from radar interferometric data. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCI › Full image and caption › Related video PASADENA,…
Climate predictions in 1974 – Famous glaciologists predicted the world going colder from 1974 until 2010
Story Submitted by Geir Hasnes While we were going through the heaps of papers after a deceased family member some days ago, I noticed a newspaper clipping from the Norwegian…
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