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…
Category: Sea ice
NSIDC Mark Serreze's sea ice 'death spiral' no longer 'screaming' on the way down, now termed to be 'erratic & bumpy'
From the University of Colorado at Boulder, where they are apparently attempting to explain away why Arctic sea ice isn’t living up to previous wild claims such as those made…
State of the Sea Ice – January 2015
Guest essay by Robert A Cook, PE Annually, the President is required to address the nation and report on the State of the Union. Other writers here regularly report on…
Al Gore, wrong again – Polar ice continues to thrive
Guest essay by Rolf E. Westgard In his 2007 Noble Prize acceptance speech, former Vice President Al Gore warned that the “Arctic ice could be gone in as little as…
Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show
Happy New Year! Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show Daily Express, 25 December 2014 Levi Winchester THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to…
Good news from #AGU14 'Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected'
From the “no death spiral” department comes this press release made at AGU from ESA. Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected, according to the…
Comparing sea ice today to Shackleton’s Ill Fated Voyage – 100 years ago this month
By Paul Homewood 100 years ago last week, Ernest Shackleton was preparing to depart from South Georgia with the Endurance on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. As is well known, he ended…
Better forecasts for sea ice under climate change?
From the University of Adelaide University of Adelaide-led research will help pinpoint the impact of waves on sea ice, which is vulnerable to climate change, particularly in the Arctic where…
Surprise: Robot Sub Finds Much Thicker Than Expected Antarctic Sea Ice
From the British Antarctic Survey comes this press release which really isn’t a surprise to climate skeptics. In Antarctica, not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year,…
I'm not so certain about the Arctic 'death spiral'
Robert Balic writes: I recently read the Willis Eschenbach article Argo, Temperature, and OHC (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/argo-temperature-and-ohc/) which reported the trend in the global ocean temperatures as 0.022 ± 0.002 deg C…
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
From NASA Goddard, October 7, 2014: Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began…
Claim: Arctic sea ice helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere
From the University of Southern Denmark. This is a bit of a surprise, and may well be true, but I’m not too keen on the first couple of paragraphs. Summer…
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent sets new record, pierces 20 million square kilometer barrier
Sunshinehours reports that the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for September 19th, 2014 is 20.11297 million square kilometers, which is 1,535,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 climatological mean. Another 58,000 sq…
New paper links Arctic sea ice extent to absorption of sunlight by clouds
The Hockeyschtick writes: A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds Arctic sea ice concentrations at the low of each summer are related to absorption of…
New all-time satellite-era record for Antarctic sea ice extent
The Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on Sept 13 2014 may have set a new all time record (at least for the satellite era, we don’t have data prior to that).…
Has Arctic sea ice made the 'end of melt season' turn prematurely this year?
It seems possible, given the sort of year it has been. This plot from DMI shows what appears to be the classic “end of melt season” turn in sea ice…
‘The Arctic sea ice spiral of death seems to have reversed'
The headline is a quote by Dr. Judith Curry from a David Rose article in the Sunday Mail: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million…
ARCUS Sea-Ice predictions are in, includes WUWT's contribution
ARCUS Sea Ice Prediction Network writes in their executive summary: Thank you to the groups that contributed to the August 2014 Outlook. We received 23 pan-Arctic contributions. Of the 23…
Historic Variations in Arctic Sea Ice – Part Two
Guest essay by Tony brown Foreword Note; Last year an edited version of this article appeared at Climate Etc. This new version contains numerous additional references, graphics, quotes, more historic…
Remember that claim from NSIDC and Walt Meier that the Antarctic ice expansion was due to a 'processing error'? …never mind
NASA scientist says that error has long since been corrected and the increase in sea ice in Antarctica is real. As readers know, we announced this paper (which was under…
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