By Kenneth Richard on 8. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnthropogenic Influence On Arctic Climate ‘Too Small To Be Detected’ Source: Haine, 2016 The evidence compiled in scientific papers continues to rapidly accumulate. An anthropogenic signal in the regional Arctic climate is still too small to be detected. Temperature, glacier melt, and sea ice changes are all well within the range of natural variation for […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAntarctica & Greenland Combined Added 0.59 Of An Inch To Sea Levels Since 1958 Graph Source: Grinsted et al., 2009 In a newly published paper, oceanographers estimate that global sea levels rose at a rate of ~1.42 mm per year−1 (1.32 to 1.52 mm/yr−1) between 1958 and 2014, a 56-year span that directly coincides with an […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 24. January 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter‘Several Thousand’ Hot (60°C) Springs ‘All Over’ Greenland Melt The Ice Sheet From Bottom Up A few years ago, 10 glaciologists publishing in the journal Nature Geoscience asserted that “large parts of the north-central Greenland ice sheet are melting from below” due to high geothermal heat flux forcing (Rogozhina et al., 2016). In a new paper […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. January 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter‘Consensus’ Science Takes A Hit In 2017 During 2017, 485 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 question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media. These 485 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 25. December 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter Image Source: 22 December 2017 Newsweek Christmas Day has arrived. With the advent of this cheery holiday comes a somber warning from Newsweek, purveyor of climate doom. “[A]s global temperatures rise due to climate change, snow on Christmas Day could increasingly become a rarity—even a distant memory.” Contrary to Newsweek‘s claims, however, snow cover across the Northern […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 20. November 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlacier Retreat Has Been Slowing During 2000-2016 A new satellite-based estimate of glacier mass change for High Mountain Asia (HMA), the world’s third largest glacier conglomeration after Antarctica and Greenland, reveals a relatively modest retreat rate for the first 17 years of the 21st century. The results from Brun et al. (2017) indicate that HMA glaciers are […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 16. November 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlobal Warming Theory ‘Completely Disconnected From the Observations’ Extensive analysis of temperature trends in the Arctic reveals that there has been no detectable long-term change since the beginning of the 20th century, and thus predictions of a sea ice-free Arctic in the coming decades due to dramatically rising temperatures are not rooted in observation. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. September 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists Rebuke Claims Of Human Control Over Glacier Mass Balance “Natural climate variability still emerges as the key deciding element governing the Himalayan glacier mass balances.” – Shekhar et al., 2017 Yet another new paper has challenged to IPCC-endorsed conclusion that the Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly due to anthropogenic climate change, and that […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. September 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter Graph Source Duchez et al., 2016 Contrary to expectations, climate scientists continue to report that large regions of the Earth have not been warming in recent decades. According to Dieng et al. (2017), for example, the global oceans underwent a slowdown, a pause, or even a slight cooling trend during 2003 to 2013. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 7. August 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterExposing ‘Staggering’ Ice Sheet Melt Deceptions In recent months, two new papers published in The Cryosphere have provided a condensed summary of the ice-melt and sea-level-rise consequences of global warming for the Arctic region. 1. Between 1900 and 2010, the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has melted so extensively and so rapidly that the GIS ice-melt […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 13. July 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter2nd Highest Subantarctic Glacier Advance Of Last 1,000 Years Occurred 50 Years Ago Yesterday we learned that a giant iceberg just split off from the Antarctic Peninsula. Most media outlets were uncharacteristically mild with their declarations of concern. Even The Guardian pointed out that the breakup of the ice is naturally occurring, glaciologists are “not unduly […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. July 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland Cooling Since 2005 Arctic Region Cooler Now Than Most Of The Last 10,000 Years It’s official. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Greenland has been cooling slightly since 2005. This trend development may be a harbinger of what may be in store for the coming years. Shifts in North Atlantic temperatures […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. May 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterStrongly fluctuating snow cover in Switzerland appears to be coupled to ocean cycles By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) For those who love snow, there are supposedly dark clouds on the horizon. Snow is becoming less and less. Never in the past has snow been as […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. May 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterHeat Flux From Below Melts Ice Sheets, Drives Temperatures & CO2 Variations Image: Smellie, 2012 Image: Newton, 2008 It has long been established in the peer-reviewed […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. May 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland’s Ice Melt Contribution To Sea Level Just 1.5 cm For 1900-2010 As the HadCRUT4 temperature data indicate, there has been no net warming trend in the Arctic for the last 80 years. In fact, from the early 1940s to the mid-1990s, the Arctic cooled. HadCRUT Arctic Temperature 1920-2017 (Climate4You) Due to its Arctic location, […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. March 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterTwo recent papers dispelling claims often made by global warming alarmists have been presented by the Die kalte Sonne site. here. =============================================== No. 1 Insidious preindustrial warm phase: 4000 years ago glaciers in Norway had almost completely melted away By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) The […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. February 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter IPCC Intentionally Uses Catastrophic Non-Science To Incite Policy Action “The most striking feature of the present reconstruction is the absence of any warming trend in the 20th century” — Yadav et al., 1997 Bhattacharyya and Chaudhary, 2003 In 2007, IPCC Claimed The Himalayan Region Has Been Warming So Rapidly Its Glaciers Would […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 9. February 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter 75% Of Total Modern Glacier Melt Occurred Before 1950 “[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 the Americas, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter Climate science is supposed to be settled, right? We are told that there is an overwhelming agreement, or consensus, among scientists that most weather and climate changes that have occurred since the mid-20th century have been caused by human activity — our fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions in particular. We are told that natural […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 26. December 2016
Share this…FacebookTwitter About two weeks ago, NOAA released the annual version of their latest Arctic Report Card. Of course, the usual media outlets peddled the requisite doomsday headlines when describing the report’s contents, deploying words like grim and dire and pedantically issuing a failing grade so as to paint a picture of an Arctic climate […]
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