AcuuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi has a question about two datasets and asks: If it is darn warm, how come there is so much sea ice? Bastardi asks a simple question:…
Category: Sea ice
The Guardian sees the light on wind driven Arctic ice loss
First, we pointed this out quite some time ago. See: Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses and also NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face…
NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea Ice is Increasing
By Steven Goddard Last month we discussed how NASA continues to spread worries about the Antarctic warming and melting. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has…
IPCC AR4 Commenter: "I do not understand why this trend is insignificant – it is more than three times the quoted error estimates”
Yet Another Incorrect IPCC Assessment: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase by Chip Knappenberger March 8, 2010 Another error in the influential reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports…
Baltic sea ice traps ships
There’s a lot of buzz about this in the blogosphere because of the constant barrage of alarming reports being fed by the media on Arctic sea ice melt. As we…
NSIDC Confirms WUWT Ice Forecast
by Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts In late 2009, Anthony forecast that Arctic sea ice would continue to recover in 2010. Last month Steve Goddard did an analysis explaining why…
Luxemberg
From the BBC: ‘Iceberg the size of Luxembourg threat‘ – click image for video and watch the collision of two giant ice masses. Of course 50 years ago, such things…
JPL: Missing ice in 2007 drained out the Nares strait – pushed south by wind where it melted far away from the Arctic
This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven. A significant portion of the…
Gore on the Arctic (again)
ANOTHER BOLD PREDICTION OF AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC Guest post by Mark Johnson Al Gore trumpets the latest conclusions of Climate Change Advocate David Barber. “Sea ice in Canada’s fragile Arctic…
IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%
From World Climate Report: Another IPCC Error: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% Figure 1. Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio,…
Scripps: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves
WUWT readers may remember this article: Watch the Wilkins ice shelf collapse in time lapse animation – looks like ‘current’ events to me where mechanisms other than melt were discussed. It…
NOAA's new website climate.gov – a first day sin of omission
Today NOAA officially announced www.climate.gov It didn’t take skeptics long to find a sin of omission. WUWT reader Dave N. pointed this one out to me. Let’s start with the…
Ice in Chinese ports "exceeding anything experienced in 30 years"
From the “weather is not climate department” another report of ice further south than has been recently experienced. Here’s a picture from this China Daily news story: From Maritime Global.net…
Antarctic sea water shows 'no sign' of warming
From the Australian: SEA water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming that could bring higher…
IPCC scientist: Global cooling headed our way for the next 30 years?
UPDATE: The subject of this article, Mojib Latif, has challenged the Daily Mail article and it’s interpretation. In another story at the Guardian, Latif says the interpretation by the Daily…
USGS: Arctic sea too warm for sea ice 3 million years ago
This is a paleoclimatology finding, with current spin added. I guess they haven’t seen the latest on the NAO and AO. USGS Press Release: Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free…
The Arctic Oscillation Index goes strongly negative
In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate…
"rotten" sea ice – not even in Denmark
There’s plenty of stories about how Arctic sea ice is now “rotten”. There’s darn few that talk about yearly comparisons or what other scientific outlets are saying about the claim.…
Arctic warming goes with the floe
Past Arctic Warming Also Created by Currents Guest posted by Jeff Id of The Air Vent I’ve stated here on several occasions that the ‘Recent’ Arctic ice thinning is more likely…
The Top Ten Reasons why I think Catlin Arctic Ice Survey data can't be trusted
First, I loathe having to write another story about Pen Hadow and his Catlin Arctic Ice expedition, which I consider the scientific joke of 2009. But these opportunistic explorers are…
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