By Kenneth Richard on 5. March 2026
There is nothing unprecedented or even significant about modern warming magnitudes or rates. Antarctic ice cores are routinely used to represent not only global-scale CO2 records, but global temperature records over the last 800,000 years. Interestingly, if we compare modern Antarctica to paleo Antarctica we learn “no continent-scale warming of Antarctic temperature is evident in the […]
Posted in Antarctic, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 24. January 2026
Record cold at the South Pole … Amundsen-Scott Station records -61.3°C … coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981. The German, realist European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents its latest video on the subject of Antarctica and contrasts the new records with mainstream media coverage of climate change. On October 15, 2025, […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. December 2025
The Southern Ocean (60-70°S) and Antarctica (south of 60°S) were warmer in the late 1970s and early 1980s than in recent decades (Vihma and Uotila, 2016, Ma et al., 2025). These regional temperature anomalies do not align with linearly-rising CO2 emissions. Image Source: Vihma and Uotila, 2026 Image Source: Ma et al., 2025
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By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2025
A new study indicates the Antarctic Peninsula has cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021. Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed. These trends undermine alarmist claims of CO2-induced “polar amplification.” Image Source: Nielsen et al., 2025
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By P Gosselin on 24. October 2025
This is not supposed to be happening, according to the climate models. Symbol image: NASA While the headlines relentlessly holler about “exploding global warming” and “dramatic melting” of the polar caps, the South Pole is telling a starkly different story. Here reports Germany’s Report 24. On October 15, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station registered an […]
Posted in Antarctic, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. June 2025
Scientists have counter-intuitively determined that a melting Antarctic ice sheet serves to mitigate global warming. The anticipated accelerated melting of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) will mean massive amounts of freshwater will enter the Southern Ocean (SO) over the next one hundred years. According to a new study‘s panoply of SOFIA (Southern Ocean Freshwater Input […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2025
The Germany-base European Institute For Climate And Energy (EIKE) has issued its latest video featuring Antarctica. Good news! The alleged catastrophic warming remains a myth there. It’s as cold as it ever was. Lots of other publications showing Antarctic cooling. See my side bar for all posts about Antarctica. Antarctica experienced record low temperatures in […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. May 2025
By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt If you look at the climate website of the Helmholtz Association with the ambitious name “Climate Facts” under Antarctica, you will read the following: “The important mainland ice of Antarctica is disappearing, and at an increasing rate”. According to the Helmholtz Association, this is of great significance for rising sea levels. […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. May 2025
DNA evidence suggests the limit of Antarctic sea ice was ~2000 kilometers farther south than it is today 2500 to 1000 years ago. Elephant seals can only breed in the Southern Ocean’s subantarctic, sea ice free waters. For example, today’s largest colony breeds on Macquarie Island (54.5°S). Scientists (Wood et al., 2025) have now identified […]
Posted in Antarctic, Medieval Warm Period, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. May 2025
According to a new study, the recent short-term (2011-2022) decreasing Antarctic sea ice concentration (SIC) trend has not offset the overall 43-year (1979-2022) trend of increasing Antarctic SIC. The strongly negative sea surface temperatures and SIC correlation coefficient (-0.73) indicates the waters around Antarctica have undergone a long-term cooling trend. Image Source: Sahoo et al., […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 7. May 2025
Recent studies shows that the Arctic and Antarctic have cooled over the past 2 decades, and that ice mass has gained in the Antarctic Wilkes Land-Queen Mary Land region. Hat-tip: TKP The study, “Spatiotemporal mass change rate analysis from 2002 to 2023 over the Antarctic Ice Sheet and four glacier basins in Wilkes-Queen Mary Land” […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 5. May 2025
The Surface Mass Balance (SMB) for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has been remarkably stable since the 1970s. However, according to the authors of a new study (a preprint soon to be published), “in recent years, the SMB has increased on the AIS, in particular for 2022, which mostly originates from mass gain on the […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cryosphere |
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