From the “pictures actually do matter” department…NSIDC’s Mark Serreze is thrilled to get them from Science News Hundreds of high-resolution satellite photos of the Arctic sea ice taken during the…
Category: Sea ice
More on RC Misinformation from Pielke Sr.
Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation Part II Filed under: Climate Change Forcings & Feedbacks, Climate Science Misconceptions — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 8:42 am There are comments…
New Antarctic Sea Ice Video – shows cycles and ice growth
Antarctic Sea Ice Complete Video by Jeff Id , reposted here by invitation. The video animation Jeff put together is well worth watching, see it below the “read more” line. –…
Roger Pielke Senior on Real Climate claims: "bubkes"
Real Climate’s Misinformation From Climate Science — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 7:00 am Real Climate posted a weblog on June 21 2009 titled “A warning from Copenhagen”. They report on a Synthesis…
Arctic temperature is still not above 0°C – the latest date in fifty years of record keeping
By Joseph D’Aleo, AMS Fellow, CCM The average arctic temperature is still not above (take your pick) 32°F 0°C 273.15°K–this the latest date in fifty years of record keeping that…
Interesting times at the "North Pole"
There is a webcam at the “North Pole” (at least it starts out very near there) that reports via satellite data uplink at regular intervals. They also have a weather…
Historic Variation in Arctic Ice
Historic Variation in Arctic Ice Guest post from the Air Vent by Tony B The following is a guest post by Tony B on the history of Arctic ice. I…
Listening to the Antarctic Ice Shelves – they say "no climate change"
From the Australian Ice shelves stable over six years ANTARCTIC ice shelves are showing no sign of climate change, six years of unique research have shown. Previously on WUWT we…
Sea Ice Speed Bump: WUWT?
UPDATE: Dr. Walt Meier of NSIDC writes in with some information, seethe end of the article. I’m getting weary of answering this question in comments, so here it is front…
Nansen Corrects Sea Ice Data – Sea Ice Extent Now Greater, Near Normal for Most of April/May
By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts From Steve: In May, WUWT reported on an apparent error in the Nansen ice extent data. It appears that we were correct, as Nansen…
An update on the NSIDC satellite sensor issue
I missed this June 2nd NSIDC announcement while traveling this week, but here it is now, just a few days late. For those of you that have been inquiring about…
Arctic Sea Ice Time Lapse from 1978 to 2009 using NSIDC data
Jeff Id at the Air Vent has been doing some interesting work lately. Before the NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice anomaly plot went kaput due to failure of the satellite sensor…
NSIDC pulls the plug on Arctic Sea Ice Graphs
During the the last week, NSIDC graphs of arctic sea ice extent have been dropping so steeply that many have called them into question. Finally NSIDC ended the daily updates…
Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument…
Unprecedented Incoherence In The Ice Message
Guest post by Steven Goddard Last week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned that “polar ice caps were melting far faster than expected just two years ago“ This was based…
NSIDC vs. NANSEN vs. AMSR-E
Guest post by Steven Goddard In my May 1st piece, Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC hypothesized that differences in algorithm between NSIDC and NANSEN (NORSEX) were causing the gap between…
Mayday – May Day!
Guest post by Steven Goddard NSIDC Arctic Ice Extent Just a few pixels from “average”. May 1st is May Day . “Mayday” is a universally understood distress call signifying that…
Watch the Wilkins ice shelf collapse in time lapse animation – looks like 'current' events to me
Previously on WUWT we discussed the media’s fascination with “melt” when it comes to ice shelves cracking off. Then there’s also this picture that keeps getting recycled. http://www.ogleearth.com/wissm.jpg It is…
What Is Normal Arctic Ice Extent?
Guest post by Steven Goddard I have been noticing in recent weeks that NSIDC extent is much closer to their 1979-2000 mean than NANSEN is to their 1979-2007 mean. This…
Inconvenient Eisdicken – "surprising results" from the Arctic
This is a news story from Germany outlining another Arctic ice measurement expedition. This one was conducted by flying the scientists across the north polar ice cap using the WWII…
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