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New Study Reports A 60% Slowdown In Greenland's Ice Loss Rate In The Last Decade

New Study Reports A 60% Slowdown In Greenland’s Ice Loss Rate In The Last Decade

By on 4. April 2026

Greenland’s ice mass losses have dramatically decelerated since 2012. According to a new study (Nilsson and Gardner, 2026), from 1992-2023 the ice loss from Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and peripheral glaciers has added a total of only 1.1 cm (11 mm) to global sea levels. This is a sea level contribution rate equivalent of just […]

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New Study: A 4°C Warmer Beaufort Sea Had 'No Sea Ice' 11,700 - 8200 Years Ago

New Study: A 4°C Warmer Beaufort Sea Had ‘No Sea Ice’ 11,700 – 8200 Years Ago

By on 16. February 2026

For the last 3000 years the Beaufort Sea region has had “permanent sea ice.” According to a new study, there was “no sea ice” in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea from 11,700 to 8200 years ago. During this period, summer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) averaged ~7°C, varying up to 9.6°C. “The Early Holocene (11.7−8.2 ka) is […]

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New Study: Greenland Was 3-7°C Warmer And Far Less Glaciated Than Today 6000-8000 Years Ago

New Study: Greenland Was 3-7°C Warmer And Far Less Glaciated Than Today 6000-8000 Years Ago

By on 12. January 2026

A large portion of the Greenland ice sheet that is today over 500 m thick did not exist during the Early to Mid Holocene. Prudhoe Dome (PD), a 2500 km² section of northwestern Greenland’s ice sheet (GIS), is today 500 to 600 m thick (Walcott-George et al., 2026). Approximately 6000-8000 years ago, or when atmospheric […]

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Greenland Continues To Defy Alarmist Warming And Ice Melt Narratives

Greenland Continues To Defy Alarmist Warming And Ice Melt Narratives

By on 6. November 2025

According to a new study, Greenland temperature stations indicate there was an abrupt 2.9°C warming trend from 1922-1932 (10 years) that was almost identical to the 3.1°C warming trend from 1993-2007 (14 years). Between the two warming periods (identified as WP1 and WP2 in the study) was an overall ~3°C cooling from 1933-1992. Thus, as […]

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The Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Gains Again Exceed Mass Losses In 2024-'25

The Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Gains Again Exceed Mass Losses In 2024-’25

By on 30. August 2025

Another year, another well-above-average (1981-2010 mean) snow and ice accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet (indicated by the blue vs. gray trend lines, right chart).   The net mass gain (blue) again exceeded the net mass loss (red) during 2024-2025. Image Source: Polar Portal The Greenland Ice Sheet melt percentage and surface temperature have been […]

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New Study: Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance Has Been Increasing Due To Recent Mass Gain

New Study: Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance Has Been Increasing Due To Recent Mass Gain

By on 5. May 2025

The Surface Mass Balance (SMB) for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has been remarkably stable since the 1970s. However, according to the authors of a new study (a preprint soon to be published), “in recent years, the SMB has increased on the AIS, in particular for 2022, which mostly originates from mass gain on the […]

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Central Greenland Was Recently Ice-Free And Covered With Plants When CO2 Was Under 300 ppm

Central Greenland Was Recently Ice-Free And Covered With Plants When CO2 Was Under 300 ppm

By on 3. January 2025

Today, with CO2 levels supposedly in the “dangerously high” range, Central Greenland has 3 kilometers of ice piled atop it. Scientists have known since the GISP2 borehole was drilled in 1993 that Central Greenland deglaciated at least once in the late Pleistocene (Bierman et al., 2024). Indeed, the Summit of the modern Greenland ice sheet […]

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New Study Finds 1970s-Present Antarctic Ice Loss Is 'Unexceptional' And Not Due To 'Climate Change'

New Study Finds 1970s-Present Antarctic Ice Loss Is ‘Unexceptional’ And Not Due To ‘Climate Change’

By on 26. December 2024

Ice shelf collapse was much more pronounced and exceptional millennia ago than it has been over the last 47 years. The advent of post-1970s “climate change” and polar amplification due to the rapidly rising trend in human greenhouse gas emissions was supposed to unleash catastrophic ice calving losses and increases in iceberg size throughout the […]

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