By Kenneth Richard on 20. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new analysis of recent trends for the Greenland ice sheet reveals that since 2012 there has been an abrupt slowing of melt rates and a trend reversal to cooling and ice growth. • In 2018, 26 of Greenland’s 47 largest glaciers were either stable or grew in size. • Overall, the 47 glaciers […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to the calculations of Dr. James Hansen, the radiative influence derived from the increase in CO2 during the last deglaciation was so negligible that it equated to “a third of energy required to power a honey bee in flight” (Ellis and Palmer, 2016). Image Source: Ellis and Palmer, 2016 Between about 22,000 and […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlaciers in Sweden melted ~7 times faster during the 1920s to 1960s than from 1970 to 2015. Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 “The strongest melt in the mass change curve […] occurs between the 1930s and 1960s, with the beginning of this negative trend occurring in the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDuring the Mid-Holocene, when CO2 concentrations were stable and low (270 ppm), Antarctica’s massive Ross Ice Shelf naturally collapsed, adding the meltwater equivalent of 3-4 meters to sea levels. Because CO2 concentrations changed very modestly during the pre-industrial Holocene (approximately ~25 ppm in 10,000 years), climate models that are predicated on the assumption that […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGeographers from FAU investigating glaciers in South America in more detail than ever If you compare historical photos of glaciers with those taken more recently, you can see that where there was formerly ice there is now very often nothing but rock. Geographers, however, are less interested in the area covered by a glacier, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIs Greenland’s Ice Disappearing? Image Source: AVweb, August 2018 I. Emergency Landing In 1942 In July, 1942, a squadron of six U.S. P-38 fighter planes and two B-17 bombers embarked on a flight mission to England when they were suddenly bombarded by severe weather. All 8 planes were consequently forced to emergency-land on the […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterYesterday we wrote about a study that told us the data do not support that weather blockings are occurring more often than they used to. Some alarmist media and scientists have claimed that the heavy snowfalls in the Alps are happening due to manmade global warming. Swiss meteorologist: Such snowfalls “nothing unique” for Alps […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2018, over 500 scientific papers were 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 mainstream media sources. More than 500 scientific papers published […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 20. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterNewly published science indicates glaciers in the High Arctic Svalbard/Barents Sea region have rapidly advanced in the last decade — surging 16 kilometers since 2008, which is the greatest ice growth since 1890. About 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, this region was 6°C warmer than today. Consequently, the region’s glaciers were much smaller (or non-existent) at […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. November 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIce core study: Industrialization not the cause of the end of the Little Ice Age By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) A few days ago here at our blog we presented a study criticizing climate models and false soot data: These data clearly show that industrial soot could […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the first 9½ months of 2018, 368 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 mainstream media sources. These […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 23. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate alarmists rush to blame every natural disaster on global warming. Recently they blamed a massive rock slide in Switzerland on a warming planet. Yet, geologists say there’s no link. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. Last year, August, 2017, a massive rockslide occurred on the north flank of the Piz Cengalo (3369 m) in the Swiss […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate change in Austria: Alpine glaciers thousands of years ago smaller than today By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In 1998 there were 925 glaciers and large ice masses in Austria with an area of 1 hectare or more, in total 453 square kilometers. Fifty percent of the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn accumulating collection of “headlines” taken from the 2018 scientific literature is indicating the Arctic region is no longer experiencing accelerated mass ice sheet/glacier loss, warming, or sea ice declines. Image Source: Climate4you I. Ice Sheet/Glacier Mass Loss Decelerating, Stabilizing • “Notable Absence” Of Recent Acceleration In Ice Sheet Loss Lemos et al., 2018 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists are increasingly concluding that changes in low level cloud cover, not CO2, are what govern the surface radiation budget in the polar regions, driving and determining the retreat of the ice sheets. Image Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3363 It is considered “established science” that “the greenhouse effect of clouds may be larger than that resulting from a hundredfold […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterToday I have an anecdote or two about climate protection and the real willingness among Germans to do it. Over the end of last week and last weekend I was out on a 4-day trek in the Bavarian Alps, one that took me (by foot) to the top of Germany’s highest peak, the Zugspitze (2962 m) […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. March 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAwhile back a number of scientists hopped on the bandwagon claim that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by the year 2030. That claim was quickly exposed as being preposterous and so the red-faced scientists backed off and said they had in fact meant the year 2300. Today that figure as well is also looking […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 5. March 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Narrative That Says Man-Made CO2 Drives Glacier Melt Continues To Implode “[T]he retreat of the glaciers after about 1925 became rapid. It was almost entirely during the [pre-1950] twentieth century warming that the Alpine glaciers disappeared from the valley floors up into the mountains. Similarly great retreats occurred in Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, in […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 26. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Science Unsettles Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 In just the first 8 weeks of 2018, 97 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 […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Hurricanes/Tornados, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 20. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterOn January 4 NTZ weekly contributor Kenneth Richard published a list of 485 papers dumping cold water on climate alarmism in 2017. Looking through the list I find published papers showing that snowfall frequency has in fact increased over the the past 60 years! Blizzard activity jumps fourfold For example a paper by Coleman […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Hurricanes/Tornados |
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