In my opinion, this essay is a must read because it clearly illustrates correlation between ocean cycles to; Arctic ice loss and gain, glacier advance and retreat, and land surface…
Category: Glaciers
Study: Glaciers help build mountains
Via press release from Eurekalert: Glaciers Help High-Latitude Mountains Grow Taller A UA-led team of geologists reports that glaciers can help actively growing mountains become taller – contrary to the…
Pacing the Glacial
Guest post by Tom Fuller How glaciers have responded to the warming of the past 130 years is a complicated story, although many millions of words have been written to…
ESA shows movement of Petermann berg
The “deniersberg” is on the move. Chances are though it will not leave Nares strait before the refreeze occurs. Like most everything to do with Arctic ice, winds are the…
Ice Capades – New Iceberg Not What It is "Cracked Up" To Be
By Steve Goddard Readers will surely recall when WUWT was the first climate news outlet to publish this story: Oh no! Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan…
Iceberg calving: the movie
ESA has a short movie of the calving – worth a look, Anthony From the European Space Agency: Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg Envisat has been observing a…
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat
By Steve Goddard, as a follow up to this story ‘ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jakobshavn_retreat-1851-2006.jpg The press has been getting worked up about a 7 km² chunk of ice which broke off the…
New research sheds light on Antarctica's melting Pine Island Glacier
From Physorg.com New results from an investigation into Antarctica’s potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS),…
Global warming's impact on Asia's rivers overblown
Freshwater flow dominated by monsoon rains rather than glacier run-off. Reposted from naturenews (nature.com) Richard A. Lovett Although global warming is expected to shrink glaciers in the Himalayas and other…
Pilgrimage to Montana
By Steven Goddard Now that Arctic ice area is normal, Antarctic ice area is normal, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, temperatures are below all of Hansen’s scenarios, and…
Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature
From a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News Release : Team finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers,…
New study using satellite data: Alaskan glacier melt overestimated
From a press release provided by Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, France: Improved estimate of glacier decline in Alaska. Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in…
LBNL on Himalayas: "greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt"
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and announcement that comes at a very inconvenient time for IPCC and Pachauri while their “Glaciergate” issue rages. Aerosols and black carbon are tagged as…
Uh Oh – Pachauri caught out in IPCC 2035 glacier melt issue
The London Times is reporting: “The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has…
Told ya so…IPCC to retract claim on Himalayan Glacier Melt – Pachauri's "arrogance" claim backfires
WUWT first reported on this issue on 11/11/2009 and again on 12/22/2009,with Pachauri claims Indian scientific position “arrogant” The head of the IPCC Dr. Rajenda Pachauri had said: India was ‘arrogant’…
Glaciers in Wales?
UK Glaciations – Source: Western Washington University Just prior to Copenhagen, there was a flurry of news stories about Greenland melt accelerating and sea level rising up to seven meters,…
Swiss ETH: Glaciers melted in the 1940's faster than today
From ETH Zurich: The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting…
Glacier melt discovered to have an upside
From Virginia Tech, a surprising study showing some biological benefit of melting glaciers. Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream…
Texas State Climatologist: "IPCC AR4 was flat out wrong" – relied on flawed WWF report
Even though these clean cut dudes (by today’s standards) may be favorite sons of 60’s alarmism, at least they can add years correctly. Their signature song telling tales of doom…
Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store
From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for…
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