By Kenneth Richard on 30. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlacier surges of 100s of meters within mere months have been occurring throughout High Mountain Asia (the Karakoram region, especially) for decades, even centuries. It’s the Karakoram “anomaly”, and it’s thought to be “natural”. So why are the regions where glaciers are retreating thought to be responding to unnatural climate changes? The advancing glaciers […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterMonster carbon footprint: Six German researchers fly all the way to Ecuador to study how humans are impacting the earth during the Anthropocene – and do lots of hiking at the expense of the public – on a 17-day “expedition”. Some of them, including a musicologist, are of questionable scientific disciplines. Chimborazo in Riobamba, […]
Posted in Activism, Glaciers, Green Follies, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 25. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFormer Iceland Prime Minister fed up with climate tourism: Glaciers used to be smaller than today By Die kalte Sonne [German text translated by P. Gosselin] Many glaciers are currently shrinking, as they have always done in the past when the climate warmed up. What’s the news on the glacier front? In August 2019, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 17. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland’s largest glacier (Jakobshavn) has quite abruptly thickened since 2016. The thickening has been so profound the ice elevations are nearly back to 2010-2011 levels. The nearby ocean has cooled ~1.5°C – a return to 1980s-era temperatures. The world’s glaciers have not been following along with the CO2-driven catastrophic melting narrative. Alaska For example, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2019, more than 440 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. Image Source: Collins et al., […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Glaciers, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 25. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter “Glaciers: climate witnesses of the ice age to the present”. A book review By Horst-Joachim Lüdecke and Klaus-Eckart Puls Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne (Translated by P. Gosselin Prof. Gernot Patzelt is an internationally renowned glaciologist with numerous publications and lectures. Now he has, as it were, presented his life’s work with the book […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter For over 40 years (1961-2002), the Greenland ice sheet cooled, thickened, and gained mass just as anthropogenic CO2 emissions were sharply rising. Image Source: Mikkelsen et al., 2018 According to Greenland ice sheet instrumental records, there was a dramatic cooling trend during summer months from the late 1980s to early 2000s (Chylek et […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 16. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland’s ice sheet mass losses have significantly decelerated since 2013 – a reversal from the rapid retreat from the 1990s to 2012 driven by cloud forcing and the NAO (Ruan et al., 2019). The post-2013 “relatively stable” ice sheet even gained mass during 2017-’18 (Andersen et al., 2019). Ruan et al., 2019 Decelerated […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 26. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn recent decades, North American glaciers have advanced by many kilometers and buried forests in ice in the same regions where glaciers have receded and uncovered Medieval-era forests. Image Source: Davi et al., 2019 Ancient forests buried beneath ice for the last ~1,000 years began “popping out from under southern Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier” and […]
Posted in Glaciers, Medieval Warm Period |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn recent decades, the Earth’s seas have been rising at a rate of under 0.8 mm/year (8 cm per century) according to estimations of the sum of contributions to sea level rise. In contrast, sea levels rose at rates of more than 40 mm/year ~10,000 years ago. Relative sea level rise can be calculated […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterMost of the ice currently melting on Greenland only formed during the last few hundred years. Image Source: Mikkelson et al., 2018 A new paper (Axford et al., 2019) reveals NW Greenland’s “outlet glaciers were smaller than today from ~9.4 to 0.2 ka BP” (9,400 to 200 years before 1950), and that “most of […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 5. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGeothermal heat flux can foment upper mantle temperature anomalies of 800–1000 °C, and these extreme heat intensities have been found to stretch across 500 km of central-east Greenland. This could result in “a significant contribution of ice melt to the ice-drainage system of Greenland” (Artemieva et al., 2019). Evidence of more than 100,000 formerly or […]
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