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Tag: Antarctic
Seasonal Change in Antarctic Ice Sheet Movement Observed for First Time
If true, these seasonal signatures may be uncaptured in some measurements of Antarctic ice-mass loss, with potentially important implications for global sea-level rise estimates
Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica’s sea ice
Unlike other aspects of its behavior, Antarctic sea ice is just following simple rules of physics.
Study: Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought
The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a decades-old equation used to describe…
Antarctica wasn’t quite as cold during the last ice age as previously thought
An international team of scientists, led by Oregon State University’s Christo Buizert, has found that while parts of Antarctica were as cold as 10 degrees below current temperatures, temperatures over…
Debunked: New Computer Simulated Pine Island Glacier Doomsday Paper By Rosier et al Ignores Lots Of Science
Die kalte Sonne brings up the question: Why were these earlier studies – many based on observations – ignored by Rosier et al? “Hard to believe they were,” says the…
The Ozone Hole Returns to Both Poles
Some years ago, relating to a project I was carrying out, I asked the Max Planck Institute and Cambridge University –both experts in this field-if it were possible that Antarctic…
ESPERANZA ON MY MIND
Guest post by Michael Kile, Have you ever wondered how to play the Climate Game, or game the climate? If so, look no further than a remote research station on…
The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world
From AAAS Review ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world Science Advances 04 Dec 2019: Vol. 5, no. 12, eaaw9883 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw9883 Abstract Over the past decade,…
Ancient Air Challenges Prominent Explanation For A Shift In Glacial Cycles
From Nature An analysis of air up to 2 million years old, trapped in Antarctic ice, shows that a major shift in the periodicity of glacial cycles was probably not…
Ancient tree reveals cause of spike in Arctic temperature
Hmmmm……what does everyone think of this? ~ ctm Here is the abstract: Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to…
Repeated Trials, Autocorrelation, and Albedo
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach OK, quick gambler’s question. Suppose I flip seven coins in the air at once and they all seven come up heads. Are the coins loaded?…
Southern Sea Ice Area Minimum 2nd Highest on Record
By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area reached a minimum of 2.447 Million Sq km on February 23rd, 2014, which exceeded the prior 2nd highest minimum of…
Newsbytes: EU Orders Britain To End Wind And Solar Subsidies
From The GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser: The European Commission is to order Britain to end wind farm subsidies. Officials have told ministers that the current level of state support…
At AGU, NASA says CFC reduction is not shrinking the ozone hole – yet
NASA Reveals New Results From Inside the Ozone Hole – Dec. 11, 2013 NASA scientists have revealed the inner workings of the ozone hole that forms annually over Antarctica and…
IPCC's Report on Climate Change: Myths & Realities
A World Meteorological Organization insider’s view of the IPCC report. Guest essay by Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy Formerly Chief Technical Advisor – WMO/UN [A note to readers: English is not…
Lakes discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet
From the University of Cambridge The subglacial lakes are the first to be identified in Greenland The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, discovered two subglacial lakes 800 metres below…
Curry on the Cowtan & Way 'pausebuster': 'Is there anything useful [in it]?"
Dr. Judith Curry writes about the Cowtan and Way paper which (according to some pundits) purports to “bust” the temperature pause of the last 17 years by claiming we just…
Antarctic Sea Ice Didn't Get The Memo That It Was Supposed To Melt
Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Per the graph above, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has remained above the…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 6: Arctic sea ice has most definitely turned the corner – Maslowski is falsified
Plus notes on the ARCUS sea ice forecasting contest As I pointed out on September 16th in Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year…
Tough Times For Sea Ice Melt Enthusiasts…
Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts In previous years there was reason to cheer, .e.g. “Transport is steaming…
Study says global warming caused by CFCs interacting with cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide
From the University of Waterloo, an extraordinary claim. While plausible, due to the fact that CFC’s have very high GWP numbers, their atmospheric concentrations compared to CO2 are quite low,…
Nuccitelli gets a bruising by the factual hand of Monckton
Cook “the books” is wrong to slam Roy Spencer By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of…
Alice in Wonderland science
Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming…
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