From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER and the ” sporadic and incomplete measurements, so let’s use an estimate” department. See How Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers Arctic…
Category: Sea ice
Whacky Peter Wadhams Doubles Down on the Sea Ice "Crisis"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the wake of his failed 2016 “ice free” prediction, Dr. Peter Wadhams has spoken up, claiming most scientists are frightened to speak up about…
Evidence that multidecadal Arctic sea ice has turned the corner
Guest essay by Javier* Arctic sea ice has been on a declining trend since at least 1979, and probably since the bottom of the Little Ice Age. 2007 was a…
Inconvenient: Record Arctic Sea Ice Growth In September
History Keeps Proving Prophets Of Eco-Apocalypse Wrong Source data: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/ Since hitting its earliest minimum extent since 1997, Arctic sea ice has been expanding at a phenomenal rate. Already it is…
Arctic ice – a historical viewpoint
Guest essay by Roger Graves The subject of the extent of Arctic ice cover has been much in the news, with an apparently unending series of attempts to predict its…
Discrepancy in NSIDC press release vs. data puts turning point for end of Arctic ice melt 3 days earlier
Yesterday, as covered by WUWT, NSIDC announced that Arctic sea ice melt had turned the corner on September 10th with a value of 4.14 million square kilometers: Source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2016/09/2016-ties-with-2007-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-minimum/ XMETMAN writes of…
NSIDC: 2016 ties with 2007 for second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum
As WUWT first reported yesterday, Arctic sea ice has reached the minimum and turned the corner. This press release from NSIDC today updates the date and minimum extent value. BOULDER,…
Arctic sea ice melt has turned the corner
I almost called this yesterday, but I needed more data to be sure. All of the data I’ve looked at agrees, Arctic sea ice is now on the upswing, and…
Joe Romm bombs again – fails to check history on Arctic icebreaker claims
First, let’s get one thing clear, Joe Romm of the Center for American progress is paid to write stuff with headlines like this: Arctic death spiral: Icebreakers reach North Pole…
The 'Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016' turned out to be not so great for sea ice doomsters
Last week I mentioned how WeatherUnderground was touting the ‘Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016’ as being a repeat of the ice crusher cyclone in the summer of 2012. People that want…
NASA: '…highly unlikely that this year's summertime sea ice minimum extent will set a new record'
From Walt Meier at NASA Goddard: This year’s melt season in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas started with a bang, with a record low maximum extent in March and…
Another Arctic cyclone 'may' cause a repeat of 2012 sea ice low
Over at Weather Underground there has been quite a bit of interest in an Arctic Cyclone that might cause a repeat of record low sea ice extent seen in 2012.…
Arctic Ice: An Update – Evidence From the Past is Instructive
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In a previous article, I noted the treadmill created when you convince politicians to form policy based on untested hypotheses. The anthropogenic global warming (AGW)…
Interesting and positive changes in Arctic sea ice volume
Are we seeing an Arctic change? Three out of the four most recent years show increase in ice volume not seen since 2003. Guest essay by Frank Lansner DMI publishes daily…
Professor Peter Wadhams will not bet on his own sea-ice predictions
Remember back in September 2012 Professor Peter Wadhams famously said that Arctic sea ice would disappear within four years? He also had another prediction in 2013, saying that due to…
Expanding Antarctic sea ice linked to natural variability
From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH BOULDER — The recent trend of increasing Antarctic sea ice extent — seemingly at odds with climate model projections…
Arctic sea ice sets new record low for May
From NSIDC: Daily Arctic sea ice extents for May 2016 tracked two to four weeks ahead of levels seen in 2012, which had the lowest September extent in the satellite…
NSIDC resumes sea ice plots with provisional data
Daily sea ice extent updates resume with provisional data NSIDC has obtained data from the DMSP F-18 satellite and is in the process of intercalibrating the F-18 data with F-17…
Problems with satellite sea ice monitoring confirmed by NSIDC – no timeline for fix
From NSIDC and the “worth blogging about” department Sensor on F-17 experiencing difficulties, sea ice time series temporarily suspended NSIDC has suspended daily sea ice extent updates until further notice,…
Global Sea Ice Makes A Strong Comeback
By Paul Dorian, Vencore Weather Overview El Nino strengthened significantly during 2015 and peaked in December as one of the strongest such episodes in the past fifty years. Even though…
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