By Kenneth Richard on 11. April 2026
The drivers of warming and glacier retreat in Antarctic climates are not aligned with a linearly-rising trend of atmospheric CO2. Scientists (Park et al., 2026) have assessed that over the last four decades the patterns of air temperature, sea surface temperature, and glacier retreat near King George Island (just north of the northernmost tip of […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 5. April 2026
Growing climate skepticism in Europe… An inconvenient tree found in the Alps shows climate was warmer 6000 years ago. A recent video from the German language channel Report24news features Dr. Johannes Steiner, who discusses the discovery of ancient biological material (a large tree log) under retreating glaciers and its implications for the current climate narrative. […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. April 2026
Greenland’s ice mass losses have dramatically decelerated since 2012. According to a new study (Nilsson and Gardner, 2026), from 1992-2023 the ice loss from Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and peripheral glaciers has added a total of only 1.1 cm (11 mm) to global sea levels. This is a sea level contribution rate equivalent of just […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Glaciers, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 28. February 2026
Media, “experts” blame global warming for surging glaciers! The article from Germany’s online Merkur discusses a seemingly paradoxical but dangerous phenomenon in the context of climate change: glacier “surges” (sudden advances). Symbol image of a Karakoram glacier, generated for illustration purposes only by Grok AI. While glaciers worldwide are said to be shrinking due to […]
Posted in Glaciers, Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. December 2025
Central Asia’s Karakoram Mountains have not undergone any warming since 1851, a trend that is inconsistent with claims that modern warming has been global in scale. Per a new study‘s reconstruction of summer temperatures over the last 170 years, this region has cooled dramatically (by nearly 1°C) since the 1980s. This “anomalous” cooling trend has […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers
By Kenneth Richard on 30. August 2025
Another year, another well-above-average (1981-2010 mean) snow and ice accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet (indicated by the blue vs. gray trend lines, right chart). The net mass gain (blue) again exceeded the net mass loss (red) during 2024-2025. Image Source: Polar Portal The Greenland Ice Sheet melt percentage and surface temperature have been […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. April 2025
Leafy moss dated to the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) has been found embedded in Antarctic glacier ice that today is “permanently snow-covered” with “no evidence of meltwater.” This affirms a warmer MWP and that “the summer melt during the MWP was greater than today.” According to a new study, moss samples with intact leaves and […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers, Medieval Warm Period |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. January 2025
Scientists presumably intending to report unusual modern warming in response to anthropogenic activities actually indicate all or nearly all modern warming and treeline advances at a Rocky Mountain ice patch site occurred from the 1910s to the 1940s. An interesting observation found in the body of a new study (Pederson et al., 2025) is that […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2024
A collection of 85-year-old photographs reveal “growth and stability” of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937. Interestingly, the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2024
With comparatively stable CO2 levels over 10,500 years, temperatures still fluctuated within a range of -4 to +3 °C. Yet, German Constitutional High Court preposterously claims there is an “almost linear relationship” between CO2 and temperature. Junk mandated to “science” by law? Alpine glaciers: spoilsports for the CO2 climate hypothesis The CO2 introduced into the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Glaciers, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 11. May 2024
At the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) YouTube account, the young EIKE climate lady delivers the latest climate video, focusing on the Himalayas, which, as some of you may recall, would go ice-free by 2030, according to Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber. The video features a paper by Salerno et al, 2023: “Local cooling and […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2024
More evidence emerges that Antarctica has undergone rapid glacier and sea ice expansion in recent centuries, in line with the long-term and recent Antarctic cooling trend. West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999-2018 (Zhang et al., 2023). Not just West Antarctica, but most of the continent […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
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