By P Gosselin on 26. September 2023
16 years of no decline Arctic summer minimum sea ice extent refuses to drop further, surprising and frustrating the alarmist media. Image: National Snow and Ice data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, Colorado. Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten German research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is currently underway again in the Arctic. where a decrease in sea […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 31. August 2023
Since the early 2000s there has been no net change in the Greenland ice sheet mean annual surface temperature, as well as no net change in melt extent percentage. Greenland’s ice coverage was, for most of this year (September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023), observed to be significantly above the long-term (1981-2010) climate average. […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. July 2023
Greenland’s climate and ice/snow volume have not been cooperating with the anthropogenic global warming narrative. The 1929-1931 Wegener expedition real-world observations reveal Greenland temperatures, ice extent were then “of a comparable magnitude” to recent decades (Abermann et al., 2023). The 1930 snow line was higher (more melt) than the 2000-2020 average, “similar” to the record […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. May 2023
In the last 25,000 years there has been an anti-correlation between rising CO2 and the Siberian Arctic temperature – the opposite of what is claimed by proponents of the anthropogenic global warming narrative. According to a new study, Arctic Siberia was 4°C warmer than it is today from 15,000 to 11,000 years ago, when CO2 […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. April 2023
During the last interglacial (LIG) 127 to 119k years ago, when CO2 levels were said to be only 275 ppm, Greenland’s Camp Century surface was ice free, vegetated. Today this same site is buried under a 1.4 kilometers-high ice sheet. The Arctic was sea ice free during the LIG (Diamond et al., 2021). Image Source: […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology
By Kenneth Richard on 6. April 2023
Back in the Early Holocene, when CO2 levels were said to be ~255 ppm, Arctic Svalbard was warm enough to accommodate abundant numbers of thermophiles, or warmth-demanding species. Only “remnants” of these species and their habitat exist in today’s much-colder Arctic. With the exception of a few centuries in recent millennia, today’s Svalbard (Arctic) is […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2023
An ancient vegetative and fauna ecosystem discovery in northernmost Greenland reveals how substantially warmer polar climates were when CO2 levels were said to be much lower than today. Reconstruction of the Kap København Formation ecosystem 2 million years ago. Image credit: Beth Zaiken. Source: Sci.News The northern coasts of Greenland are today a barren polar […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. February 2023
A warming event that spans only one year, with decades of stable temperatures before and after, would not appear to align with rapidly rising human CO2 emissions or a gradually rising atmospheric CO2 concentration. From 1958 to 2020, as CO2 rose from 320 ppm to 410 ppm, Greenland had a warming period of 1°C that […]
Posted in Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. February 2023
Evidence of abundant lakes and ponds and the remains of vascular plants, warmth-demanding beetles, sponges, spruce forests…in a newly-discovered organic-rich deposit 480 m above sea level in High Arctic (76.4°N) northwest Greenland indicates the local climate was similar to that of today’s southern Greenland (~60°N) and North America during the Early Pleistocene ice age. Scientists […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 26. January 2023
Independent analyses from multiple independent sources indicate Arctic Siberia was 3 to 5°C warmer than today during the peak of the last glacial, or when CO2 levels were below 200 ppm. Measurements from Antarctica’s ice sheet are almost invariably used to characterize both the global-scale atmospheric CO2 levels and climate for the last 10s to […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. December 2022
“Compared to the present climate, the Arctic climate in MH [Mid-Holocene] summer became warmer and had less sea ice” (Dong et al., 2022). While the modern Arctic “remains largely covered by sea ice in June and July,” the higher summer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from about 3,000 to 7,000 years ago meant the East Siberian […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. December 2022
Trees, plants, and animal dwellers tell a much different story about the climate of the last 11,000 years than those claiming the modern Arctic temperatures are unusually warm. A “warmer than present” Arctic climate from 9,000 to 3,500 years ago (Brown et al., 2022) was suitably warm enough to sustain aquatic species like sponges and […]
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