Missing Climate Headlines from May 2009
Undoubtedly the best summary of the current state of affairs is the SPPI monthly CO2 report. The April report contains news that—if there was a free and high quality media—would have generated...
View ArticleBe afraid — melting sea ice causes infinitesimal sea level rise!
Thanks to the NSF for the image of sea ice in the Bering Sea New Scientist doesn’t have enough column space to tell you that Briffa’s Yamal tree ring series depends heavily on just one freak 8-standard...
View ArticleAntarctic sea ice trends at record highs. Fears for shrinking southern ocean,...
While stories of the Arctic record fall in sea-ice have been all over the news, all over the world, it’s almost as if the Southern Hemisphere didn’t exist. Right now, this week apparently, the sea ice...
View ArticleAntarctic Sea Ice hits another record: 900,000 square kilometers above average
Antarctic Sea Ice has hit it’s 23rd daily record for the year. (Thanks to Sunshine Hours for tracking these things.) 2013 is the red line. (click to enlarge) In terms of the number of daily records in...
View ArticleAntarctic sea ice still at record high — where is springtime melt?
Whatever happened to polar amplification? The oceans are apparently warming, and yet the sea-ice abounds in the Southern Hemisphere. A new record was set at 19.57 million square kilometers of ice...
View ArticleThird icebreaker abandons rescue of climate scientists boat in Antarctica,...
LATEST NEWS: Aurora Australis abandons attempt to save Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica. The SMH headline could’ve said “Another icebreaker abandons attempt to save climate scientist’s boat in...
View ArticleAntarctic Sea Ice record high — 600,000km2 more than previous record
Despite all the “missing heat” hiding somewhere in the oceans, the extent of the Antarctic Sea Ice today is at a record high of 16.8 million square kilometers. In the Southern Hemisphere the record is...
View ArticlePanic time: a tiny 0.01% of Antarctica, resting on volcanoes, melts five...
Let this go down as a prime example of Big Meaningless Numbers used to scare you: Antarctica’s ice melts five times faster than usual Ben Webster — The Times (copied at The Australian) Antarctica has...
View ArticleAntarctic Sea Ice lowest in 40 years, but no one knows why —“back to drawing...
Put it in a history book: scientists are sounding like scientists — admitting they don’t understand Antarctic Sea Ice set records in 2014, but then in 2016 it rapidly declined and hasn’t recovered,...
View Article2,000 gigatons of plant wrecking CO2 and Icebergs around Antarctica are the...
The Larcum Kendall K1 Watch — The most important watch you probably never heard of. By Jo Nova Oldbrew at Tallbloke’s Talkshop found a study showing that icebergs around Antarctica apparently haven’t...
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