Arctic
Science Journal Now Admits Soot’s Major Role In Warming – CO2 Getting Cut Down To Size
Der Spiegel reports today that scientists have identified soot (black carbon) as one of the major global warmers out there. According to Science Journal here, a team of 24 experts led by NASA scientist Drew Shindell looked at 400 emission control measures and identified 14 measures targeting methane and black carbon (BC) emissions that would reduce projected [...]
Rutgers University: Greenland Snow Cover Expanding Since 1967 – Turning White!
Greenland Is Turning White By Ed Caryl “No place on Earth is warming as fast as Greenland,” we keep hearing. Or: “Greenland is approaching a tipping point!” Figure 1: Dundas Mountain and Northstar Bay at Thule AFB, Northern Greenland. Photo by Ed Caryl The Arctic is known as a desert, with little rain or snow, [...]
Cold Records Smashed In Alaska And Arctic!
The UN just released its summary report on how we should all expect extreme heat in the future. Well forget all that. It’s all nonsense coming from unrealistic models that do not even take the cycles of the sun (source of 99.9% of the Earth’s surface heat) and cycles of the oceans (which cover 70+% [...]
Arctic Was Forested And Much Warmer 53 Million Years Ago
The Arctic before man-made CO2. I thought the planet today was warm – too warm, we keep hearing. Well the Arctic was a heck of a lot warmer 53 million years ago. Today’s climate by comparison is downright frigid. The Bild der Wissenschaft reports on a paper appearing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society here that shows [...]
80°+N…Data and Observations Show Nothing Unusual
Awhile back I sent an e-mail to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), who we all know provide us with the fascinating 80°+N Arctic temperature charts. With the Arctic being a crucial indicator of global warming, so we are told, I thought surely they must also have a plot of the annual 80°+N mean temperatures. Astonishingly they [...]
The Paul Ehrlich Of Climatology Reveals His Latest Halloween Horror Visions
Halloween is already in full swing at the Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Reseaarch in Germany. Witches, goblins, flesh-eating zombies and scary monsters are stirring about and spreading disturbing horror visions. Right now Stefan Rahmstorf is frozen by such a vision like a deer in the headlights. Rahmstorf, who has the unscientific habit of taking cyclic graphs and drawing [...]
2011 Record Arctic Ice Melt? Not Even Close!
When it’s the 2nd coldest year of this century, sea levels are dropping and you’re a warmist desperate for headlines, what do you do? You resort to using outlier and obscure data sources – like the warmist University of Bremen – and claim Arctic ice is “dramatically shrinking” and has reached “a record low” (since [...]
Arctic Expedition Goes Terribly Awry – One Youth Killed And Four Injured By Polar Bear
With great sadness Der Spiegel reports here reports that a 17-year old Briton was killed by a polar bear attack on the island of Spitzbergen in the Arctic. Also another 16 year old and a 17 year old were injured, and 2 group leaders age 27 and 29 years respectively. The victims were part of an expedition organised [...]
Der Spiegel On Monnett – Shoddy Scientist Who Is A Victim Of An Intrigue
Now that the science behind the threat of polar bear extinction has fallen to pieces too, it’s worth looking at how the German elite media has approached the story, at least those who have not chosen to ignore the inconvenient embarrassment altogether, as most have done. Der Spiegel, to their credit, has given the story online, [...]
Thickening Arctic Ice Is Getting Thinner, Say Alfred Wegener Institute And University of Alberta
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research of the Helmholtz Association here reports that its Polar 5 research plane, loaded with measurement instruments, has just completed a 6-week expedition over the high Arctic, along with 2 other planes from the European and American space agencies ESA and NASA, to measure, among other things, the thickness of [...]
Soot Emerging As Main Driver Of Arctic Warming
By Ed Caryl Pierre and I have both written about the effects of soot on Arctic and sub-Arctic ice and glaciers, read here Glaciers - The Dark Side and Half Of Arctic Warming Caused By Soot. Scientists are recognising that CO2 is becoming less of a factor and that black carbon soot instead is being recognised increasingly [...]
Alfred Wegener Institute Observed “Dramatic Changes” Based On Only 10 Years Of Data
Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute has issued a press release about a comprehensive study on the erosion of Arctic coastlines it has recently released. Many media outlets in Germany were busy peddling the “dramatic results” over the last day or so. So what data do we have to back up all the drama? Only about 10 years [...]
Is Permafrost Methane A Climate Time Bomb? “Only in Scenarios – Not In Reality” Says German Permafrost Scientist
It amazes me how the media take a non-story and inflate it into a “climate time-bomb”. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung has an interview today with Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, a director at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), who has been studying the permafrost in Siberia for 20 years now. Not surprisingly he sees signs of some [...]
Arctic Ice Thickness Makes A Huge Gain – Global Warming Freezes More Ice!
Back in January I wrote about how the Arctic had gained 2000 cubic kilometres in ice volume. This was calculated by comparing the sea ice thickness of January 2008 to that of January 2011, see the following chart. Blue color shows thin ice, while green shows thicker ice. Clearly the Arctic’s ice was much thicker [...]
Knut: 2006 – 2011
Some sad news I am compelled to report today. The German poster child of Arctic ice melt, polar bear Knut, died mysteriously yesterday at the Berlin Zoological Garden. No animal had ever been so instrumentalized by the German media for the purpose of rallying attention and sympathy to the mythical plight of the polar bears [...]
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