Why? It isn’t as though there has been much by way of warming in the southern hemisphere. It is adjacent to the localized warming of the Antarctic Peninsula but why is just that patch warming while the Antarctic generally cools? Continue reading
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Himalayan glacier data shift to the middle ground
New satellite study sparks fresh debate about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Continue reading
Melting Greenland Growing Darker
Last month, an unusually warm weather system swept across Greenland, triggering a widespread melting of surface ice and snow that typically occurs only once in a lifetime. Continue reading
Doug L. Hoffman: Karakoram Rising
Another group of researchers has weighed in on the continuing scientific scuffle over whether the Himalayan glaciers are melting. Continue reading
Greenland melting breaks record 4 weeks before season’s end
Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on August 8 – a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reports Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York. Continue reading
With all this Greenland “meltdown”, what about those ducks?
Anyone remember Behar’s rubber ducky experiment? You know, the one where an untethered Moulin Explorer was dropped into a moulin alongside the great Jakobshavn outlet glacier in West Greenland – together with 90 rubber ducks. The Moulin Explorer is a PVC cylinder – about the size of an American football – which contained an accelerometer, a pressure transducer, GPS with satellite modem link, and an antenna; all powered by high-capacity lithium thionyl chloride batteries. Did it ever emerge and report home? And what about those ducks? Continue reading
Anti-Glacier Prayer “Worked Too Well”—Vatican Approves New Ritual
After 350 years, and amid a changing climate, Alpine pilgrims warm up to ice. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, glacier advance, glacier melt, weather superstition
Glacial Lakes May Affect Sea-Level Rise
“Scientists are tracking how water atop Greenland’s ice sheet pools and drains. The findings could help predict future rises in sea level“
Whatever became of the rubber ducky experiment where a bunch of the toys were flushed into Greenland meltwater a few years back. Any of them emerged yet? Or did they just refreeze into the bottom of the glacier? Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, climate research, glacier melt, greenland
Larry Bell: Goodness Glaciers! More Unprecedented Global Warming Meltdowns?
In July, the global warming hot lines were glowing red with shocking news: NASA scientists were stunned as images from three satellite showed “unprecedented” thawing at or near the surface over most of Greenland’s ice sheet. The event began on July 8, and lasted four days before refreezing. NASA ice scientist Tom Wagner observed, “You literally had this wave of warm air wash over the Greenland ice sheet and melt it.” Continue reading
Aerial photos reveal dynamic ice sheet
Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains far from certain just when we will have reached a point when scientists will be able to predict its disappearance. Continue reading
Doug L. Hoffman: Greenland’s Oscillating Glaciers
Melting glaciers are once again in the news, along with the associated threat of rising sea levels. Continue reading
David Biello waxing hysterical again: Deny This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting, and Doing So at a Rapid Pace–Kind of Like Climate Change
Remember when climate change contrarians professed outrage over a few errors in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last report? Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, glacier melt, himalayan glaciers, weather superstition
Meltwater from Greenland glacier wipes out key crossing
“Scientists in Kangerlussuaq on western edge of ice sheet film runoff from glacier washing out roads and taking out a tractor“
Oh no! Not a tractor! Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, glacier melt, greenland, weather superstition
Mike Ives: Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest China’s Water Woes
Really? Imagine how short of water they’d be if the glaciers didn’t melt Continue reading
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Justin Norrie: Melting ice the greatest factor in rising sea levels
Melting glaciers and ice sheets have contributed more to rising sea levels in the past decade than expansion from warming water, according to modelling in the latest report by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) Cooperative Research Centre. Continue reading
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Tagged climate models, glacier melt, PlayStation® climatology, sea level rise
Climate change: Slow melting of glaciers to delay crop sowing
FAISALABAD: Climate change is already beginning to affect the Pakistani economy it seems: Punjab’s agricultural areas face a water shortage due to the late melting of the Himalayan glaciers that form the source of the region’s rivers, delaying the sowing of three of the four most important crops in the country – cotton, sugarcane and rice. Continue reading
IBD: Facts Get In The Way–Again–Of A Good Global Warming Story
Hillary Clinton made a well-publicized trip last week to the Arctic to see for herself the impact of global warming. Less well known, however, are two reports that contradict the climate-change alarmists. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, glacier melt, greenland, weather superstition
WCR: Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm
A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed acceleration of ice loss from Greenland may not be a long-term phenomenon. Continue reading
Luboš Motl: Knud Rasmussen pictures: Greenland is melting less quickly than 80 years ago
Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Danish polar explorer and the father of Eskimology. By an accident, 80-year-old pictures of the Greenland taken during his expeditions were just found in a Danish basement: Continue reading
Greenland’s current loss of ice mass
Loss through melting and iceberg calving during the last 10 years is unusually high compared to the last 50 years Continue reading
