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By P Gosselin on 17. January 2024
New paper in ‘Nature’: Himalayan glaciers melting much more slowly than expected, researchers blame warming! Image: NASA (public domain) Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) reports on “baffled scientists” and how the Himalayan glaciers are cooling, yet insist the reason is global warming. The FR reports: This development is unusual because the Himalayan glaciers have continuously […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 29. August 2022
A new study details how a much warmer climate than today led to the disappearance of glaciers and ice caps during the sub-300 ppm CO2 Early to Middle Holocene. The Arctic’s modern ice extent is among the largest of the last 10,000 years. Glaciologists Larocca and Axford (2022) have synthesized a comprehensive record of Arctic-wide […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. June 2022
More evidence surfaces showing Greenland isn’t cooperating with the global warming narrative. The notorious “Climategate” e-mail exchanges between activist scientists like Drs. Phil Jones and Tom Wigley revealed how grave a concern it was in 2004 that “GREENLAND HAS BEEN COOLING SIGNIFICANTLY” since the 1950s. “…a warming trend occurred in the Nuuk fjord during the […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2022
Climate alarmists hate this inconvenient fact: hundreds of temperature reconstructions show that the northern hemisphere was much warmer over much of the past 10,000 years (Holocene) than it is today. HAT-TIP: Klimaschau here Massive 66 temperature reconstructions One recent study: Arctic glaciers and ice caps through the Holocene: a circumpolar synthesis of lake-based reconstructions by […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. March 2022
Swiss Alps glacier extents were smaller than 2000 C.E. during the warmer-than-today Roman and Medieval Warm Periods and throughout 75% of the Holocene, or when temperatures were 1-3°C warmer. Schimmelpfennig et al., 2022 “…the glacier was smaller than its 2000 CE extent for a total of ∼7.4 kyr during the Holocene.” Image Source: Schimmelpfennig et al., 2022 Another […]
Posted in Glaciers, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. December 2021
The cryosphere is failing to cooperate with the anthropogenic global warming narrative that says rising greenhouse gas emissions should be catastrophically melting Arctic ice. Scientists (O’Regan et al., 2021) report Ryder Glacier in north Greenland has advanced 2,881 m from 1948-2015 given its advancing rate of 43 m/yr-1. Its modern ice extent is about 50 […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Little Ice Age |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. September 2021
According to a new study, 36% of 1979-2017 Antarctic ice loss was from the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. Scientists believed this glacier melt was due to anthropogenic climate change “until recently”. Now they say the glacier mass losses are due to the thin underlying crust and anomalously high geothermal heat in this region. We’ve […]
Posted in Antarctic, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. August 2021
Exposed moss and willow shrubs buried beneath today’s receding East Greenland glaciers can be dated to 400 to 500 years ago, suggesting this period (the early Little Ice Age) was as-warm or warmer than today. It is widely accepted that Greenland’s surface temperatures were several degrees warmer (McFarlin et al., 2018, Axford et al., 2021) […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. May 2021
A new study (Kullman, 2021) suggests ~9000-year-old tree remains can be found buried in “currently empty snow hollows and glacier cirques” at elevations 600-700 m higher than where trees can grow today, implying a >3°C warmer Early Holocene climate. Treelines were still 75-100 m higher during the Medieval Warm Period…and even during the 15th and […]
Posted in Arctic, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 18. October 2020
As the globe has warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age, alarms concerning retreating glaciers have been sounded worldwide. The reason for the warming remains hotly disputed: alarmists blame it on manmade CO2 while skeptics say natural factors are just as much at play, if not more so. Image: Norwegian glace, for illustration […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. April 2020
Glacier surges of 100s of meters within mere months have been occurring throughout High Mountain Asia (the Karakoram region, especially) for decades, even centuries. It’s the Karakoram “anomaly”, and it’s thought to be “natural”. So why are the regions where glaciers are retreating thought to be responding to unnatural climate changes? The advancing glaciers of […]
Posted in Glaciers, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 25. February 2020
Former Iceland Prime Minister fed up with climate tourism: Glaciers used to be smaller than today By Die kalte Sonne [German text translated by P. Gosselin] Many glaciers are currently shrinking, as they have always done in the past when the climate warmed up. What’s the news on the glacier front? In August 2019, the […]
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