By Kenneth Richard on 25. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Arctic’s western Barents Sea (Storfjordrenna) surface temperatures now range between 2-4°C. Sea ice persists in the region for 10 months of the year. A new study finds this same region was sea ice-free, 10°C warmer than today (13°C), and SSTs rapidly rose and fell by degrees C per century during the mid-Holocene. The […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive of the period, with no significant net change in the last 200 years. There was no ice cover in the Western Arctic for about 2 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new reconstruction of Arctic (NW Greenland) sea ice cover (Caron et al., 2019) reveals modern day sea ice is present multiple months longer than almost any time in the last 8000 years…and today’s summer sea surface temperatures s are among the coldest of the Holocene. Yet another new study (Caron et al., 2019) […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 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 ²²²²mainstream media sources. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper published in Remote Sensing reports substantial summer cooling of Antarctica’s entire sea ice region due to an increase in surface albedo between 1982 to 2015. Zhou et al., 2019 The Characteristics of Surface Albedo Change Trends over the Antarctic Sea Ice Region during Recent Decades “The Arctic sea ice is becoming […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBiomarker evidence for Arctic-region sea ice coverage in the northern Barents Sea indicates the most extensive sea ice conditions of the last 9,500 years occurred during the 20th century (0 cal yr BP). In contrast, this region was ice free with open water conditions during the Early Holocene (9,500-5,800 years ago). Berben et al., […]
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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 Kenneth Richard on 25. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterTen years ago, polar bears were classified as an endangered species due to model-based assumptions that said the recession of Arctic sea ice would hamper the bears’ seal-hunting capabilities and ultimately lead to starvation and extinction. The Inuit, who have observed these bears catch seals in open water for generations (and likely know more […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt is often claimed that modern day sea ice changes are “unprecedented”, alarming, and well outside the range of natural variability. Yet scientists are increasingly finding that biomarker proxies used to reconstruct both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice conditions since the Early Holocene reveal that today’s sea ice changes are not only not unusual, […]
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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 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 16. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists have determined that today’s Arctic sea ice concentrations are still much higher than they have been for most of the last several thousand years, undermining claims that modern era Arctic sea ice changes are remarkable, unusual, or unprecedented. Source: Kolling et al., 2018 In the graphical illustration of Late Holocene West Greenland sea ice […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter40-year veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell’s Saturday Summary shows how the Earth’s surface has cooled dramatically over the past three years and that Arctic sea ice is piling up. Hurricane threat to East Coast due to natural factors First at his most recent Saturday Summary, the 40-year meteorologist first warns that in-close developing […]
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By P Gosselin on 4. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterVery recent scientific publications show that the North Atlantic heat content and surface temperatures have been cooling significantly, and so may lead to a rebound in Arctic sea ice in the region. Already Arctic sea ice has stabilized over the past 10 years and Greenland has shown a surprising ice mass gain. Kenneth wrote […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. June 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe following Arctic sea ice area chart from the Bremerhaven-based Alfred-Wegener Institute shows a current sea ice area that is about 1 million square kilometers below the mean. Chart: Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen. But don’t let the lower than normal sea ice area fool you into thinking the ice is disappearing, and […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 28. June 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn just the first 6 months of 2018, 254 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. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. June 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the observed mean thickness of the sea ice in the region north of (Arctic) Svalbard was substantially thinner (0.94 m) in 1955 than it has been in recent years (~1.6 m, 2015/2017). Graph Source: Rösel et al., 2018 In 1955, the atmospheric CO2 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 7. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe peer-reviewed scientific literature is teeming with new evidence supporting the skeptical viewpoint that modern climate changes are neither unprecedented or unusual — nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability. For example, (1) the Arctic’s Bering Sea surface was several degrees warmer and sea-ice-free all year round earlier in the Holocene. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 26. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter Arctic Sea Ice Extent Higher During 1954-2001 Than Almost Any Period In The Last 9,000 Years During the Roman Warm Period ~2,000 years ago, sea levels were significantly higher than they are now. Modern coastlines are 2 miles down from where they were during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, strongly implying that […]
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