By Kenneth Richard on 5. December 2022
Wrangel Island reindeer numbers plummeted from 8,500 to 400-500 individuals within 5 years (2002-2007) due to repeated cold weather-related icing episodes resulting in starvation. The alarmist activists who routinely claim the Arctic biosphere is threatened by a warmer climate seem to ignore the Arctic’s mass die-off catastrophes linked to cold temperatures and ice in recent […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. December 2022
Polar bear populations are stable to increasing with improved body condition in the 21st century. The alarmist narrative that says polar bears are threatened by sea ice losses is strongly at odds with real-world observations. A new study assesses the body condition of polar bears in the Gulf of Boothia – an immense 67,000 km² […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. September 2022
Greenland’s climate changes are remarkably uncorrelated with climate model expectations and changes in atmospheric CO2. When CO2 levels were in the mid-200s parts per million (11.7 to 4.5 thousand years ago) the Arctic and northern Greenland were 2-4°C warmer than now, ice margins were 80 km behind today’s, ice-free open water conditions prevailed, and Greenland […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 24. September 2022
Greenland’s Ice Mass Balance 2021/22 By Die kalte Sonne Autumn has begun. Time for the Greenland mass balance. We have digitized the Polar Portal’s graph of the accumulated surface mass balance and have come up with a value of 467 Gt. That’s 100 Gt or 27% above the 1981…2010 mean! Together with the melting of […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 5. September 2022
Abundant polar bear remains dating to 8000 to 9000 years ago have been found on Zhokhov Island, which is today surrounded by year-round sea ice (even in summer). This Arctic latitude (76°N) is too cold and thus too ice-covered for polar bears to inhabit today. During the Early Holocene CO2 concentrations ranged between 255 to […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 3. September 2022
In terms of Arctic sea ice and hurricane activity this year, the climate ambulance chasers have been quiet. Late summer Arctic ice has stopped shrinking The DMI graph shows the size of sea ice areas in the Arctic in August from the beginning of satellite measurements in 1979 to 2022 (red line). The sea ice […]
Posted in Arctic, Stupid Predictions |
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 P Gosselin on 12. August 2022
According to Al Gore, based on statements and “science” from “leading climate experts”, the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free in the summer already years ago. Now that the summer ice melt season in the Arctic will end soon, by the middle of next month, it’s a good time to see how Al Gore’s prediction […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. July 2022
Today we look at the polar ice caps, which the global warming wingnuts claim is the canary in the coal mine and predicted earlier they’d melt and collapse. For example, Al Gore warned the Arctic ice would disappear by 2014. While CO2 has gone up, Arctic sea ice has RISEN over past decade But we […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 22. July 2022
The globe hasn’t been warming and the Arctic hasn’t been melting much for almost a decade now. Recall the climate crisis loonies warned us some 20 years ago the Arctic sea ice would disappear by the summer of 2014. Well it’s still very much there, as Joe Bastardi reminds us at his most recent Saturday […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. July 2022
A new study (Gupta et al., 2022) indicates that from 2000-2019 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration. Canada’s Hudson Bay extends into the Arctic Ocean and its coasts are teeming with polar bears. Scientists report 11 of 15 Hudson Bay sites have […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. July 2022
These much warmer Greenland temperatures imply that the elevation of the ice sheet was 400 meters lower than it is today from about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Scientists (Westhoff et al., 2022) report that the two largest Greenland melt events in the last few hundred years occurred in 2012 and in 1889 CE – […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
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