By P Gosselin on 23. June 2017
It is not uncommon to hear from Europe’s media that climate change is to blame whenever a weather anomaly occurs on the old continent. The reason for the climate change of course gets attributed to man and fossil fuel emissions. Ocean drives Therefore, it is all the more interesting that a new paper has just […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. June 2017
Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt present their monthly solar activity report at their Die kalte Sonne site. In May the sun was very quiet as sunspot number was a mere 18.8, which is only 36% of what is typical for the month this far into the cycle. Seven days saw no sunspot activity at all. The […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 23. May 2017
Polar snow and ice cover rarely cooperates, no matter what side of the warming issue you may be on. It changes so fast. When ice cover climbs, skeptics like to claim that it shows global warming isn’t what it is often hyped up to be. And when ice cover drops to satellite era record lows, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. May 2017
Heat Flux From Below Melts Ice Sheets, Drives Temperatures & CO2 Variations Image: Smellie, 2012 Image: Newton, 2008 It has long been established in the peer-reviewed scientific […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. May 2017
Natural Forcing Of Arctic Climate Increasingly Affirmed By Scientists Gajewski, 2015 Three years ago a cogent paper was published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature that was surprisingly candid in its rejection of the position that the substantial warming and sea ice reduction in the Arctic occurring since the late 1970s should be predominantly attributed […]
Posted in Arctic, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 14. May 2017
Inconvenient historical natural sea ice fluctuations By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) On April 29 German ARD public television presented a report on a Canadian sea ice reconstruction using coral algae growth. The report (in German) can be seen at the ARD-Mediathek in the Internet (begins at the 16:38 mark). German researcher […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 6. May 2017
Analyses show that global temperatures continue their rapid cooling trend, as Schneefan here writes. What follows are excerpts of his recent comprehensive analysis. The cooling comes naturally in the wake of the moderate La Nina conditions that have ruled over the past months. In April surface temperatures 2 meters above the ground plummeted as the following […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. May 2017
Greenland’s Ice Melt Contribution To Sea Level Just 1.5 cm For 1900-2010 As the HadCRUT4 temperature data indicate, there has been no net warming trend in the Arctic for the last 80 years. In fact, from the early 1940s to the mid-1990s, the Arctic cooled. HadCRUT Arctic Temperature 1920-2017 (Climate4You) Due to its Arctic location, Greenland […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 28. April 2017
A shorter post today, as this afternoon I’ve got to prepare 50 lbs. of chili con carne (and let me tell you, I can taste it already). German meteorological and climate site Schneefan (snow fan) here writes on the recent changes by the DMI on its Greenland ice mass chart. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 4. April 2017
Learning from the climate’s history: the Arctic heat waves of the 1930s and 40s By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt [German text translated/edited by P Gosselin] Climate alarm at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) was reported on 21 March 2017 at the German online derwesten.de: Heat waves in the Arctic – climate scientists […]
Posted in Arctic, Natural Oceanic Oscillations |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2017
The Sun In February and Arctic Sea Ice Von Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated and condensed [due to time constraints] by P. Gosselin) The star at the center of our solar system was also very inactive last month. The determined sunspot number SSN of 26.1 was only 50% of what is normal. Fig. 1: Mean […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2017
Solar Forcing Of Modern, Historic Arctic Sea Ice Only Slightly Less Sea Ice Now Than Little Ice Age In a new paper (Stein et al., 2017), scientists find that Arctic sea ice retreat and advance is modulated by variations in solar activity. In addition, the sea ice cover during the last century has only slightly […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2017
At his most recent Weekend Summary at Weatherbell Analytics, veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi looks at recent North American weather events, for example the warm poles (where very few weather stations exist) and the warm North American February. Arctic sea ice recovers Soon after global warming alarmists hollered that the Arctic was in collapse, the conditions there have […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Drought and Deserts, Oceans, Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2017
What follows is a press release from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. It turns out that microalgae — “an important source of food in the oceans” — are far more resilient to changes in ocean pH values than alarmists would like us to believe. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. =================================== Tiny algae, hugely resilient Microalgae […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. February 2017
Modern Polar Bear Habitat Among Coldest Of The Last 10,000 Years Image Source: slideshare.net The habitat range for polar bears extends across the circumpolar boundaries of the Arctic Ocean, primarily inclusive of North America (Canada), coastal Greenland, and northern Russia (Siberia, Northern Europe). However, about 70 percent — 13 of 19 subpopulations — of the Earth’s […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. January 2017
As Europe and USA brace for more frigid weather, some are asking if this is what we need to expect to cope with in the future. Now it’s clear that the recent “record warm” 2 years had little to do with CO2, and instead were almost entirely due to the well-known El-Nino phenomenon over the […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. December 2016
About two weeks ago, NOAA released the annual version of their latest Arctic Report Card. Of course, the usual media outlets peddled the requisite doomsday headlines when describing the report’s contents, deploying words like grim and dire and pedantically issuing a failing grade so as to paint a picture of an Arctic climate teetering […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2016
“[T]he coincidence of the most recent phase of ice-frontal retreat…and warming summer temperatures is not unusual in the context of the last ~80 years.” — Chandler et al., 2016 All too often, scientific analysis of modern glacier and ice sheet melt rates is conveniently confined to the last 30 to 60 years. Indeed, the common […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. December 2016
Fifteen international scientists recently collaborated to assemble one of the most comprehensive analyses of temperature and ice sheet changes for Greenland and the Canadian Arctic ever produced. Briner et al., (2016) synthesized over 100 records from a large and accumulating database to publish “Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland” in the journal Quaternary […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. November 2016
Graph adapted from Climate4you Last week, Edinburgh and Day (2016) used historical monitoring records to conclude that “the [Antarctic […]
Posted in Arctic, CO2 and GHG |
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