By Kenneth Richard on 20. January 2025
Scientists presumably intending to report unusual modern warming in response to anthropogenic activities actually indicate all or nearly all modern warming and treeline advances at a Rocky Mountain ice patch site occurred from the 1910s to the 1940s. An interesting observation found in the body of a new study (Pederson et al., 2025) is that […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2024
A collection of 85-year-old photographs reveal “growth and stability” of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937. Interestingly, the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2024
With comparatively stable CO2 levels over 10,500 years, temperatures still fluctuated within a range of -4 to +3 °C. Yet, German Constitutional High Court preposterously claims there is an “almost linear relationship” between CO2 and temperature. Junk mandated to “science” by law? Alpine glaciers: spoilsports for the CO2 climate hypothesis The CO2 introduced into the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Glaciers, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 11. May 2024
At the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) YouTube account, the young EIKE climate lady delivers the latest climate video, focusing on the Himalayas, which, as some of you may recall, would go ice-free by 2030, according to Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber. The video features a paper by Salerno et al, 2023: “Local cooling and […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2024
More evidence emerges that Antarctica has undergone rapid glacier and sea ice expansion in recent centuries, in line with the long-term and recent Antarctic cooling trend. West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999-2018 (Zhang et al., 2023). Not just West Antarctica, but most of the continent […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. March 2024
Ice flowed out of the interior of the Greenland ice sheet at much stronger rates and with much greater variability than today throughout the Holocene – or until about 2,000 years ago. New research (Jansen et al., 2024) has determined Greenland’s ice streams vary according to internal processes, and not necessarily due to external changes […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. February 2024
Retreat rates for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) were massive during the Early Holocene, when CO2 concentrations were low and stable (~265 ppm), dwarfing any retreat rates witnessed in the modern era. New research published in Nature Geoscience (Grieman et al., 2024) assesses the elevation of West Antarctica’s ice sheet fell by ~480 m within […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 17. January 2024
New paper in ‘Nature’: Himalayan glaciers melting much more slowly than expected, researchers blame warming! Image: NASA (public domain) Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) reports on “baffled scientists” and how the Himalayan glaciers are cooling, yet insist the reason is global warming. The FR reports: This development is unusual because the Himalayan glaciers have continuously […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2023
Higher likelihood of extreme snowfall in the French Alps in coming decades. And, greening Africa Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten Global warming is often cited as having a negative impact on snow and ice melt in cold regions, yet new research published in The Cryosphere has suggested that extreme snowfall events may be a feature of some locations at higher latitudes and […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. October 2023
The magnitude problem persists for peddlers of Climate Alarm. During the last interglacial (LIG) 127-119k years ago atmospheric CO2 was said to be 275 ppm, and yet the global sea levels were 6-9 m higher than they are today. The higher sea levels were due primarily to the LIG’s substantially warmer temperatures, which meant that […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
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 13. July 2023
There is a “direct link” between the location of origin for recent ice melt in Antarctica and geothermal heat flow. High geothermal heat flow (GHF) is mostly why Antarctic ice melts, not “atmospheric and ocean forcing,” which is what has been commonly thought until recently (Haeger et al., 2023). Even though atmospheric CO2 is well-mixed, […]
Posted in Antarctic, CO2 and GHG, Glaciers |
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