By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter For over 40 years (1961-2002), the Greenland ice sheet cooled, thickened, and gained mass just as anthropogenic CO2 emissions were sharply rising. Image Source: Mikkelsen et al., 2018 According to Greenland ice sheet instrumental records, there was a dramatic cooling trend during summer months from the late 1980s to early 2000s (Chylek et […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 27. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt XR and FFF rallies, speakers like telling outright lies with the aim of trying to get the masses of people to stampede in mass panic and blind anger. One of these activists in Germany is Carola Rackete, reports Michael Krüger here at Science Skeptical. Rackete, the award-winning refugee rescuer and sea vessel captain, […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive of the period, with no significant net change in the last 200 years. There was no ice cover in the Western Arctic for about 2 […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 15. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterRahmstorf way off: New study finds no robust relationship between shrinking sea ice, European cold waves By Die Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Photo: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research A good six years ago, Potsdam climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf was outraged by the German Weather Service (DWD) at his at […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Hockey Team |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a new study, scientists report that about 17,000 to 20,000 years ago, when CO2 levels hovered near 190 ppm, “summer temperatures were higher here [North Slope, Alaska] than they are today” (Kuzmina et al., 2019). Image Source: Guthrie and Stoker, 1990 and The New York Times In the modern climate, North Slope, Alaska […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new reconstruction of Arctic (NW Greenland) sea ice cover (Caron et al., 2019) reveals modern day sea ice is present multiple months longer than almost any time in the last 8000 years…and today’s summer sea surface temperatures s are among the coldest of the Holocene. Yet another new study (Caron et al., 2019) […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreta Thunberg lives in Sweden. According to peer-reviewed science, Sweden was at least 3°C warmer than it is today about 6000 to 9000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered around 265 ppm. At 410 ppm CO2, 21st century Sweden is colder now than almost any time in the last 9000 years. Image Source: Grudd, […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterCO2 concentrations have risen from 310 ppm to 410 ppm since the 1930s. However, there has been no net change in Arctic or Greenland temperatures during these last 90 years. During the Pliocene, CO2 also ranged between about 300-400 ppm, but the Arctic was 15-22°C warmer and sea levels 25 meters higher than today. […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland’s ice sheet mass losses have significantly decelerated since 2013 – a reversal from the rapid retreat from the 1990s to 2012 driven by cloud forcing and the NAO (Ruan et al., 2019). The post-2013 “relatively stable” ice sheet even gained mass during 2017-’18 (Andersen et al., 2019). Ruan et al., 2019 Decelerated […]
Posted in Arctic, Cloud Climate Influence, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 19. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOur German skeptic friend Snowfan here keeps us up to date on the latest ODEN “Ship of Fools” attempt to travel across an Arctic that is supposed to be ice-free by now. The incentive to cross the Arctic passages in the summer is huge. Doing so would mean at least a week of fame […]
Posted in Arctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhere have all the globe-trotting climate ambulance chasers gone? Well, they’re nowhere to be found in Europe nowadays. Hat-tip: Snowfan in Germany The reason is the unusual cold that has swept across a large swath of the continent and which has sent temperatures plummeting to near freezing. Icebox July: Parts of Central Europe saw […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGeothermal heat flux can foment upper mantle temperature anomalies of 800–1000 °C, and these extreme heat intensities have been found to stretch across 500 km of central-east Greenland. This could result in “a significant contribution of ice melt to the ice-drainage system of Greenland” (Artemieva et al., 2019). Evidence of more than 100,000 formerly or […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 29. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAgain and again photos are being taken out of context and wild climate alarm stories are being fabricated from them. And once the pictures have made it around the world, those involved end up having to backpedal a few later. In June 2019 it happened again. This time it was a dog sled photo […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 28. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterReports of shrinking sea ice are fake news By Snowfan (June 19) The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) expects sea ice extent growth in June 2019: The DMI plot for the development of Arctic sea ice area (extent) from June 1979 to the PROGNOSE for June, 2019. Since 2010, i.e. 9 years ago, the sea […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and ²²²²mainstream media sources. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Emissions, Glaciers, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 16. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and P. Gosselin Once predicted to be ice-free by climate “experts”, the Arctic ice has not lost any volume over the current decade. Using the modelled ice volume data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), we see June 15 volume trend has been flat since 2010: Data source: DMI Next we examine […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt Twitter NoTricksZone’s contributor Kenneth Richard posted this paper appearing in the Journal Science in 2011. The papers find that “summer temperatures during the HTM in North Greenland were 2° to 4°C warmer in this part of the Arctic. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations back then of course were much lower than the historically very modest […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 10. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNo Reason For Panic: The Oscillating Gulf Stream By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Image: NASA JPL (public domain) The Gulf Stream provides heating for Western Europe. Some climate activists paint horror scenarios on the wall that the Gulf Stream is slowing down or even stopping due to climate change […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 4. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterModelled data by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) show that Arctic sea ice stopped shrinking 13 years ago, defying earlier predictions made by climate scientists and models. By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin A few days ago we showed how Antarctica’s coastal stations were in fact cooling somewhat rather than warming. This came as a […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBiomarker evidence for Arctic-region sea ice coverage in the northern Barents Sea indicates the most extensive sea ice conditions of the last 9,500 years occurred during the 20th century (0 cal yr BP). In contrast, this region was ice free with open water conditions during the Early Holocene (9,500-5,800 years ago). Berben et al., […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
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