Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to climate scientists, less dense meltwater on the surface of the Antarctic ocean reduced convection between the surface and ocean depths, leaving heat trapped…
Category: Sea ice
Coronavirus shutdown forces research project to miss critical start of Arctic ice melt
From Polar Bear Science Posted on April 28, 2020 | The worldwide coronavirus lockdown has meant that the MOSAiC research project, which deliberately froze the icebreaker Polarstern into the Arctic…
Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors
University of Colorado at Boulder The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising the risk of more widely transporting pollutants like microplastics…
New research first to relate Antarctic sea ice melt to weather change in tropics
Diminishing sea ice translates to warmer ocean, more rain, and stronger trade winds University of California – San Diego Arctic and Antarctic ice loss will account for about one-fifth of…
Arctic sea ice can’t ‘bounce back’
University of Exeter [See my update at the end. -w.] Arctic sea ice cannot “quickly bounce back” if climate change causes it to melt, new research suggests. A team of…
Academic team to be frozen in Arctic ice for historic polar expedition
Sea ice and snow cover experts support global climate study Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – September 20, 2019 – Dartmouth experts on Arctic sea ice and snow cover are taking…
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations began Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at the end…
A Massive Icebreaker Ship Will Trap Itself in Arctic Sea Ice on Purpose. Here’s Why.
From Live Science By Tom Metcalfe – Live Science Contributor 3 days ago Planet Earth It’s studying the interactions between the Arctic and the global climate. The RV Polarstern will…
Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming
Institute for Basic Science New research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global Warming in the…
Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically
A 40-y record reveals gradual Antarctic sea ice increases followed by decreases at rates far exceeding the rates seen in the Arctic Claire L. Parkinson PNAS first published July 1,…
Arctic Sea Ice Could Be Holding Back An Economic Boom, Pompeo Says
From The Daily Caller Tim Pearce | Energy Reporter The melting sea ice in the Arctic region might uncover a vast wealth of resources and open up new international trade…
The polar ice melt myth
From CFACT: According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (nsidc.org), ice currently covers 6 million square miles, or one tenth the Land area on Earth, about the area…
The seas get cooler around Iceland-Some charts and anecdotes
Reader Steinar J writes: Included is a Word document describing sea temperatures in the vicinity of Iceland, sea ice extent and an excerpt, (translated from Swedish) from an eyewitness report…
The Difference in Ice Types Causes Confusion in Global Warming Story
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The central theme of purveyors of environmental and climate deception is to take normal events and present them as abnormal. Here are examples of the…
Study: ‘Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 years is not due to humans alone.’
Models show natural swings in the Earth’s climate contribute to Arctic sea ice loss Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 years is not due to humans alone. By…
Where Icebergs Go to Die
Today’s story is the answer to the October 2018 puzzler. which was also covered on WUWT This could be a scene out of a spooky movie. But reality is just as…
NASA releases photo of weird rectangular iceberg
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, carried a flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on Oct. 16, 2018. During the flight, IceBridge senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck…
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