By P Gosselin on 16. August 2017
Weather and climate analyst Schneefan here writes of “early frost” in the Arctic and how Greenland snow and ice have grown after being hit by a “snow bomb”. This contradicts the expectations of global warming alarmists. The polar summer this year appears to have ended prematurely. The mean temperature of the central Arctic above 80°N […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. August 2017
Exposing ‘Staggering’ Ice Sheet Melt Deceptions In recent months, two new papers published in The Cryosphere have provided a condensed summary of the ice-melt and sea-level-rise consequences of global warming for the Arctic region. 1. Between 1900 and 2010, the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has melted so extensively and so rapidly that the GIS ice-melt contribution […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 4. August 2017
Schneefan at his excellent German climate and weather site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de here reports that Arctic sea ice has grown in mass recently, defying the doomsday scenarios that a re-hyperventilating Al Gore has been hawking lately. Schneefan writes that Arctic sea ice volume at the start of August at about the mean of the 2004 – 2013 […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 25. July 2017
What follows is another report on how it’s “back-to-the drawing-board” for climate models. ============================================== Climate models underestimate soot amounts and their warming effect in the Arctic By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translation/editing of German text by P Gosselin) Soot (black carbon aerosol) is a climate warming aerosol. Some years ago we recognized […]
Posted in Arctic, Models |
By P Gosselin on 18. July 2017
Yesterday at Twitter here meteorologist Joe Bastardi, a well-known climate science antagonist, directed our attention to the NCEP temperature situation for South America. Yikes! The massive scale of the cold is of Amazonian proportions, with temperatures well below normal across the entire continent. Bastardi even called the cold “spectacular”. Recently snow was reported to have fallen in […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 12. July 2017
We have all heard about the record-breaking ice mass balance and cold temperature reading of -33°C recently set in Greenland — the Arctic island that is supposedly the canary in the climate coal mine. It turns out that things up there are colder than we may be led to believe and that the alleged warming […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. July 2017
Greenland Cooling Since 2005 Arctic Region Cooler Now Than Most Of The Last 10,000 Years It’s official. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Greenland has been cooling slightly since 2005. This trend development may be a harbinger of what may be in store for the coming years. Shifts in North Atlantic temperatures typically […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2017
It was just reported that Greenland set a new all-time July cold record, where the mercury plummeted to -33°C. Read details here. What follows are excerpts from the most recent analysis of global temperature at wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com. A Greenland record low shouldn’t come as a surprise since in the wake of the recent El Nino global temperatures […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 2. July 2017
Veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell gave permission to publish the following, which he writes had appeared behind a paywall at Weatherbell Analytics. Part of what Joe writes was brought up at his Saturday Summary video. (Correction: Red curve in first figure is 2011/12 year, and not 2016 as Joe originally wrote). ========================================= Greenland is […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. June 2017
Arctic: 12 Years Of Sea Ice And Temperature Stability In the last 144 months, or since 2005, there has been no decreasing trend in Arctic sea ice. In fact, there has been a slight increasing trend. NSIDC Data – Graph Source: woodfortrees.org (2005.3-2017.3) or woodfortrees.org (Last 144 Months) Since the 21st century began, nearly all of the increase in Arctic-wide temperatures […]
Posted in Arctic |
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 […]
Posted in Arctic |
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, […]
Posted in Arctic |
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 |
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