By Kenneth Richard on 14. July 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Western North Pacific has continued cooling over the last millennium, with no reversal in trends after the Little Ice Age. Earlier this year we highlighted a study showing corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments. Corals in the Western North Pacific near Japan were far more abundant […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 7. July 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. July 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterCharts by Kirye The mean temperature data for June are available from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and today we plot the June mean temperature data for Tokyo and its Hachijojima island, located in the middle of the ocean 287 kilometers south of Tokyo. June in urban Tokyo hasn’t warmed since 1996: Data source: […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. July 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterCharts by Kirye The May mean temperatures for Finland and Sweden are now available from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). Today we plot the stations for which the JMA has adequate data. First we look at Finland. Contrary to belief, late spring hasn’t warmed in at these stations over the past two decades: Data […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study reports there has been a -0.3°C cooling in the Southern Ocean since 1982 per multiple observational data sets. The authors detail the “failure of CMIP5 models in simulating the observed SST cooling in the Southern Ocean.” The Southern Ocean is today about 1-2°C colder than it has been for nearly all […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 13. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore 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 […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterSeveral new and recent studies have affirmed that the waters surrounding South America – from Peru to Chile to Argentina to Brazil – were several degrees warmer and sea levels multiple meters higher than today until the Little Ice Age centuries. A new study suggests ~4,000 to 5,000 years ago coastal Argentina’s sea surface […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterMost readers here already know NASA rewrote the temperature records to make the warm period of the 1930s and 40s and the cold spell of the 60s, 70s and 80s disappear. But they can’t make everything disappear, especially old newspaper articles and old hit songs that remind us of hot summers of the past. […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe latest winter (D-J-F) temperature data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) have become available for Greenland. Data source: JMA. Chart by Kirye Though some of the data sets are fragmented and incomplete, we can still get a some idea of what the trends have been over the past 20 years. The three warmest […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Die kalte Sonne Currently much is being reported on extreme heat reaching from North Africa to Europe. In some places in Morocco and Spain, new temperature records for May have been set. However, it’s worth taking a look at the whole world, because in addition to regions that are clearly too warm, there […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists continue to document a sea surface cooling in the vast waters above Antarctica. As recently as a few thousand years ago the Sub-Antarctic (South Georgia) region was 5 to 10°C warmer than it is today (Xia et al., 2020). Image Source: Xia et al., 2020 About 1,000 years ago (the Medieval Warm Period) […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s DWD national weather service has reported the data results for Germany for April, 2022. “Record snow” in some regions helped cool April 2022 in Germany. Illustration photo only. Photo: Copyright P. Gosselin Heavy snow, hard frosts The first two weeks of the Easter month were fickle and varied bringing stormy episodes, heavy snow […]
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