Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they…
Category: Glaciers
OSU's Dr. Lonnie Thompson pushes gloom and doom, still thinks the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting due to global warming
This is an OSU press release, timed to appear in Eurekalert for Cancun’s COP16 on December 8th, and reposted here verbatim, including the all caps headline. Even though the “melting…
Upcoming paper in Nature – Greenland ice sheet melt: "it's weather, not climate"
From the University of British Columbia press office: Greenland ice sheet flow driven by short-term weather extremes, not gradual warming: UBC research Sudden changes in the volume of meltwater contribute…
Himilayan Melting Glacier Alarm Version 2.0
No mention of the IPCC’s flawed 2035 date, but still many of the same talking points are used. It pays to recycle I suppose. This statement: “But climate change is…
Water and ice, slip sliding away
From the University of Colorado at Boulder Water flowing through ice sheets accelerates warming, could speed up ice flow Caption: Standing melt water in Greenland crevasses can carry warmth to…
Greenland Ground Zero for Global Soot Warming
People send me stuff. In my email this past week I got a cover photo of the June 2010 issue of National Geographic along with this message from Al in…
The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s
Here’s a bit of research that you don’t normally see in the MSM stories about glacier melt. It is backed up by a second and very interesting article (below) from…
Kilimanjaro's snow – it's about land use change, tree cutting
From the we told you so, twice, no make that three times, department, the poster child for climate change is cited in the New Scientist where they say a peer…
A MUST READ: European climate, Alpine glaciers and Arctic ice in relation to North Atlantic SST record
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…
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…
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