By Kenneth Richard on 18. October 2018
It 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, there […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Natural Variability, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2018
In 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 368 […]
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
An 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 “We […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. August 2018
Scientists 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 changes […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2018
40-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 hurricanes […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 4. July 2018
Very 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 about […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 30. June 2018
The 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 that […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. June 2018
In 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. These […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. June 2018
According 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 concentration […]
Posted in Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. May 2018
The 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. (2) […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. April 2018
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 surface […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. March 2018
A remarkably unsophisticated paper was published a few months ago curiously entitled Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy. Among the list of co-authors of Harvey et al. (2017) are two rather familiar names in climate science circles: Michael E. Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky. The 14 authors liberally utilize name-calling and broad-brushed […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Green Follies, Sea Ice |
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