Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study in PNAS, entitled “Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice” by Pistone et al. Let me start…
Category: Sea ice
Anthropogenic Influences On Lake Ice Coverage; Ice Breakers, Waste Heat, Dams, etc.?
Image Credits: NOAA Great Lakes Surface Environment Analysis (GLSEA) By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” Per the images above, on February 13th, 2014, Great Lakes Ice Coverage was 88.4%. On…
New PNAS paper claims Arctic planetary albedo dropped significantly, yet recent CERES data shows no significant change
From PNAS: Direct satellite observation reveals that the Arctic planetary albedo, a measure of reflectiveness, decreased from 0.52 to 0.48 between 1979 and 2011, a change in albedo that corresponds…
CryoSat shows Arctic sea ice volume up 50% from last year
Measurements from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice has significantly increased this past autumn. The volume of ice measured this autumn is about 50% higher…
A Displaced Polar Vortex and Its Causes
By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” If you aren’t familiar with Stratospheric Polar Vortexes, you can get acquainted here, here and here. “A strong link exists between stratospheric variability and…
New study says 'robust modeling' predicted Antarctic sea ice to decrease, but the ice defies modeling
For those of you that have been looking for that point of reference about Antarctica’s increasing sea ice in contrast to the shrinking ice in the Arctic, look no further.…
Remember the Arctic cyclone that busted up sea ice in 2012? It seems such storms are more common than previously thought
News media back then seemed to think this was a new thing, and downplayed the role of the cyclone is breaking up sea ice, preferring to attribute it to the…
No pattern found in Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking and weather extremes
A new paper in press at GRL (Barnes et al 2014) suggests that the idea of “blocking” patterns being on the increase due to climate change factors such as sea…
2013 Was Not A Good Year For Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Climate Warming Change Disruption Weirding Ocean Acidification Extreme Weather, etc.
Image Credit: European Space Agency – CryoSat By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” For anyone keeping track, 2013 has not been a good year for those who propagate the Catastrophic…
Polynyas are very important for marine life and cooling the oceans
An introduction to Polynyas Guest essay by Eric Stephens Many people think that once a sea freezes, it is one complete sheet. In reality, there are several open areas that…
Greg Laden Once Again Expresses Something Other Than Fact
In a recent visit to Steve Goddard’s blog, I came across the post Climate Scientists Always Trying To Rewrite Their Own History. It’s about a Tweet by Greg Laden, in…
Nature proves Al Gore wrong again
Gore’s “ice free Arctic” prediction from five years ago, falsified by nature itself The great bloviator has been pwned again, by the actions of nature itself. In Germany, five years…
Defusing the Arctic Methane Time Bomb
Guest Post by David Middleton The Arctic methane time bomb keeps ticking… From Scientific American… Climatewire More Arctic Methane Bubbles into Atmosphere A new study suggests more than twice as…
Ice melting Arctic cyclones more common than previously thought
Remember the Arctic cyclone that chopped up the Arctic sea ice in 2012, resulting in a new record low summer extent for the satellite era? It turns out they are…
NASA Announces New Record Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
Researchers have measured a new record for sea-ice extent in the Antarctic. Why the white splendour is extending there while it is rapidly disappearing in the Arctic is a mystery.…
Study: The Late Cretaceous Period was likely ice-free
From the University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. – For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago…
Claim: winds blamed for Antarctic sea ice approaching record high
Stronger winds explain puzzling growth of sea ice in Antarctica From University of Washington press room by Hannah Hickey Much attention is paid to melting sea ice in the Arctic.…
According to this DMI temperature plot, the high Arctic has dropped below freezing about two weeks early
The daily mean temp 80 -90 degrees North has remained below climatological normal for more than 120 days, and has now dropped below freezing Normally, we don’t see this sort…
Observations From The WUWT Sea Ice Page
Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Global Sea Ice Area, shown above, has remained quite average this year.…
An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible
Gosh, it’s that “methane ‘splode” again. This time the Guardian makes an easily testable hypothesis emblazoned in the headlines that we’ll be sure to remind them of in two years.…
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