By Paul Dorian, Vencore Weather Overview El Nino strengthened significantly during 2015 and peaked in December as one of the strongest such episodes in the past fifty years. Even though…
Category: Sea ice
More satellite problems with Arctic Sea Ice measurement
A few years ago in 2009, I was the first to notice and write about a failure of the instrumentation for one of the satellites used by the National Snow…
The Awful Terrible Horrible Global Sea Ice Crisis
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My examination of objects cryospherical continues. In my last post, The Size of Icy Reflections, I showed that a change of 10% in the global sea ice…
The Size of Icy Reflections
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my continuing wanderings through the regions cryospherical, I find more side roads than main highways. In my last two posts here and here, I discussed the…
DMI apologizes for their disappeared sea-ice graph debacle
Earlier this week, I published a post titled: DMI disappears an inconvenient sea ice graph . Some of the usual folks who police any sea ice discussion went ballistic over the post,…
Inconvenient: iceberg calving helps 'carbon sequestration' and is 'helping to slow global warming'
From the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD and the department of “unknown negative feedbacks” comes this interesting study. While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global…
Antarctic Sea Ice as a "cork" to prevent CO2 release
From the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and the “thank goodness Antarctic Sea Ice is growing” department comes this surprising finding. Melting of massive ice ‘lid’ resulted in huge release of CO2 at…
Claim: Melting sea ice increases Arctic precipitation, complicates climate predictions
From DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and the “Reports of the demise of Arctic Sea Ice are greatly exaggerated” department HANOVER, N.H. – The melting of sea ice will significantly increase Arctic precipitation, creating…
NCAR: winter sea ice could hold steady in the next several years
NCAR develops method to predict sea ice changes years in advance From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH and the “we know so we’ll put that…
Micro-critters Rule!
A layman’s musings about ecology, and the possibility that, while man may rule the fate of whooping cranes, far smaller creatures may rule the fate of sea-ice. Guest essay by…
2015 Antarctic Maximum Sea Ice Extent Breaks Streak of Record Highs
From NASA Goddard: The sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean reached its yearly maximum extent on Oct. 6. At 7.27 million square miles (18.83 million square kilometers), the new…
Solving the problem of sea ice thickness distribution using molecular concepts
From YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Conn. – Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding…
Peter Wadhams was wrong – Arctic sea ice still there, no record low this year
Last week on September 11th I was the first to call the Arctic Sea Ice minimum. It seems both NSIDC and NASA Goddard agree with my initial claim. Dr. Peter…
Arctic sea ice melt may have turned the corner
We haven’t spent much time looking at Arctic Sea Ice this year, partly because I’ve rather lost interest in it as any sort of climatic indicator. This year’s melt seems…
Study: Arctic sea ice retreat is creating ocean circulation changes
Retreating sea ice linked to changes in ocean circulation, could affect European climate From the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing…
Climate Model Inadequacies for Sea Ice
Via CO2science.org Near the start of the current century, Holland (2001) wrote that with respect to contemporary state-of-the-art global climate models, “some physical processes are absent from the models,” while…
On the Pause in Global Sea Ice Anomalies
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I just finished the illustrations and text for another chapter of my upcoming book. The latest was about sea ice data. I believe you’ll be…
BOMBSHELL: Scripps says Arctic Sea Ice may return, forecasts of loss based on 'oversimplified arguments'
From Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Highlight: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Likely To Be Reversible Scenarios of a sea ice tipping point leading to a permanently ice-free Arctic Ocean were…
Sea Ice 101 – Beware the Ideas of March! (Was the Arctic Maximum “Early” on March 8-9?)
Guest essay by Robert A. Cook, PE Last week, in my previous article, several critics noted an apparent decline in their Arctic Sea Ice Extents when it dipped back down…
Sea Ice Climate Schizophrenia?
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism I just finished…
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