STUBBORN : Arctic Sea Ice Just Won’t Play The Game
Posted: September 12, 2018 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmist media, Antarctic, Antarctica, Arctic, Climate science, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice, Greenland | Tags: Alarmism, antarctic, Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, Climate Change Alarmism, Climate science, death spiral, Death Spiral Hoax, Fake News, Global Sea Ice, Global Warming, Global Warming Alarmism, Grand Solar Minimum, Greenland, Mainstream media, Maunder Minimum, nature, Northwest Passage, science, Science and Environment, Sea Ice 4 Comments
Arctic sea ice just won’t play the game!
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy.“
– Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
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LITTLE gem of a read by Harry Wilkinson on the condition of the Polar Ice Caps and the overtly propagandised meltdown hysteria promulgated by alarmist ‘scientists’ and their government institutions, gleefully pimped out by the ever-compliant global warming theory-obsessed mainstream media.
WILKINSON lays out basic empirical facts that shamelessly contradict the repetitive “Death Spiral” moans from climate and Arctic experts alarmists.
THE piece is a welcome reminder to be cautious of the selective bias that the mainstream media is willing to share with you on all things global warming climate change:
“These facts get little coverage because they don’t sound alarming at all, and for most reporters that means they’re not news. These ‘inconvenient truths’ are nonetheless a helpful reminder that climate change coverage should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism.”
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Arctic sea ice just won’t play the game
Arctic sea ice is proving remarkably reluctant to enter its appointed ‘death throes’, despite the usual suspects having already planned the funeral. Climate Change Anxiety Disorder, it turns out, is yet to impose its angst on the actual climate, no matter how hard the BBC tries to make it.
The latest observations show that Arctic sea ice is on course to have a greater minimum extent than in 2015 and 2016, and is running higher than levels seen a decade ago. Back then, the BBC reported that Arctic summers may be ice-free by 2013, although this estimate was described as being ‘too conservative’.
That prediction was spectacularly wrong, and contrary to warnings of an ‘Arctic death spiral’, sea ice extent has been remarkably stable in the last decade. No one can say what exactly will happen next; if this humbling affair teaches anything it should be precisely that.
The climate has misbehaved in other ways too. The Greenland Ice Sheet has been gaining mass at a record rate for the second year running, and Antarctic sea ice extent is perfectly normal relative to the 1981-2010 average. These facts get little coverage because they don’t sound alarming at all, and for most reporters that means they’re not news. These ‘inconvenient truths’ are nonetheless a helpful reminder that climate change coverage should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism. There is a long way to go before we can make accurate predictions about how the climate will behave, if indeed we ever can.
Climate science has to be more deeply grounded in real-world observations rather than models that are inevitably riddled with flawed human assumptions.
Arctic sea ice just won’t play the game | The Conservative Woman
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Climatism supports…
ARCTIC SEA-ICE LATEST
THERE has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent over the last 12 years:
FLAT trend in Arctic sea-ice extent visible over the last 12 years of the satellite record:
Sea Ice Index | National Snow and Ice Data Center
NO trend in Arctic sea-ice volume over the past 12 years:
ARCTIC Sea Ice Volume (T.Heller)
BLINK chart of the past 15 years shows no “Death Spiral” trend in sea-ice volume. It does, however, show a large increase in multi-year, 2.0-3.5 metre thick sea-ice in 2018, that will consolidate into Autumn and go nowhere for years:
ARCTIC sea-ice extent still below the median but stabilised this Century:
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | NSIDC
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HUDSON BAY ICE Update: More Thick First-Year Ice Habitat For #PolarBears In 2018 Than 2004
Posted: June 21, 2018 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Arctic, Climate science, Dud predictions, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice, Government Grants/Funding, Polar Bears | Tags: arctic, Climate Change, Fact Check, Global Warming, Hudson Bay, Multi-Year Thick Sea Ice, Polar Bears, Sea Ice, Susan Crockford Leave a commentNO wonder climate catastrophists have switched poles and are picking on Antarctica, for now! Arctic first-year and multi-year sea-ice breaking all sorts of decadel records, wrecking their “Arctic Death Spiral” agenda up there! Lol.
Despite pronouncements from one polar bear specialist that “ice in Hudson Bay is in rapid retreat” a look back in time shows that there is more thick first year ice over the Bay this year for the week of the summer solstice than there was in 2004 – and much less open water than 1998.
Below, 2018, June 18 (the week of the summer solstice):
Compare the above to the same week coverage chart for 2004, below:
Ice coverage for some other recent years are shown below compared to 1998, the year the ice breakup pattern on Hudson Bay changed. Speed and melt sequences vary according to the amount of thick first year ice present, discussed previously here.
PS. If you’re wearing white today, flaunt it! Tell your friends and colleagues that you’re celebrating the success of polar bears despite such low summer sea ice since…
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THE Arctic’s Message To G7 : Sea Ice Volume Is Normal And Highest For The Date In 13 Years
Posted: June 9, 2018 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmist media, Arctic, Climate History, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Fake News, Global Sea Ice, Greenland, Ideology, Propaganda | Tags: arctic, Arctic Sea Ice, China, climate, Climate Change, Climate science, Climatism, Fake News, G7, Global Warming, Greenland, Icebreakers, Mainstream media, propaganda, Russia, Scientific American, Sea Ice 1 Comment
The Arctic’s Message to G7: Commit on Climate – Scientific American Blog Network
(Un)Scientific American has trotted out more predictable un-scientific propaganda on the condition of Arctic sea-ice and temps ahead of Canada’s G7 Summit in Charlevoix…
Scientific American :
“Our Arctic ice is in rapid decline: 11 of the lowest masses of summer sea ice have all occurred in the past 11 years…”
“Scientists have been monitoring the Arctic region for decades and the data conclusively shows a long-term, significant warming trend.”
WHAT The ‘Science’ Says :
Arctic sea ice volume is normal and highest for the date in 13 years.
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http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/txt/IceVol.txt
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ARCTIC TEMPS
(Un)Scientific American :
“Scientists have been monitoring the Arctic region for decades and the data conclusively shows a long-term, significant warming trend.”
WHAT The ‘Science’ Says : Read the rest of this entry »
RESEARCHERS Plan Biggest Ever Antarctic Field Campaign
Posted: May 1, 2018 Filed under: Antarctic, Antarctica, Australia, Climate science, Glaciers, Global Sea Ice, Government Grants/Funding, Taxpayer waste | Tags: antarctic, Antarctica, climate, Climate Change, Climate science, Glaciers, Global Warming, Government Funding, research, science, sea level rise, Taxpayer Funded, Thwaites Glacier, Undersea Volcanoes Leave a commentJUST saw the BBC report. And yes, no mention of the undersea volcanoes causing regional warming of the western Antarctic Ocean. Nor any mention of the BBC’s own 2018 report:
“BIG increase in snowfall in Antarctica with “The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea-level rise.” – BBC
As far as I am aware, the weight of this extra snow creates enough weight for glaciers to sheer – a completely natural process. No mention of this by the BBC either…
‘Bias by omission’ – the most dangerous and insidious form of propaganda.
The edge of the Thwaites glacier [credit: NASA photograph by Jim Yungel]
This BBC report seems unaware that a study in 2014 found that parts of the Thwaites Glacier are subject to melting due to subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal “hotspots”. The existence of this group of volcanoes has long been known.
British and American scientists will assess the stability of one of Antarctica’s biggest ice streams, reports BBC News.
It is going to be one of the biggest projects ever undertaken in Antarctica.
UK and US scientists will lead a five-year effort to examine the stability of the mighty Thwaites Glacier.
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Climate Change Disables US Navy’s Newest Ship!
Posted: January 24, 2018 Filed under: Arctic, Climate Change, Global Cooling, Global Sea Ice | Tags: Climate Change, Dud Predictions, global cooling, Ice, National Security Threat, US Navy, Weather Leave a commentFROM the department of “Human-induced Global Warming represents a National Security Threat” caused by errr…too much Ice!
Guest humor by David Middleton
Climate Change Weather Disables US Navy’s Newest Ship!
Brand-new US Navy warship trapped in Canada amid cold and ice
Fox News
A brand-new U.S. Navy warship has not moved from Montreal since Christmas Eve and will spend the winter stuck in Canada due to cold and ice.
The USS Little Rock – unveiled in a ceremony on Dec. 16 in Buffalo, New York and attended by nearly 9,000 people – has not moved far since due to adverse weather conditions that kept the warship trapped at bay in Canada, the Toronto Star reported.
The warship known as a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) cost $440 million to build and stretches 387 feet in length and weighs 15 tons more than the Statue of Liberty. It is capable of traveling more than 46 miles per hour.
Such combat ships are described as agile and designed for rapid…
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UNMASKING The Great Arctic Sea-Ice “Death Spiral” Scam
Posted: September 25, 2017 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmist media, Arctic, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Fraud, Climate History, Climate science, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice | Tags: Alarmist Media, arctic, arctic death spiral, Arctic Sea Ice, Climate Change, Climate Change Scam, Fake News, Global Warming Scam, New York Times, Sea Ice Leave a comment
More scientific evidence that polar bears are doing just fine – a 30% increase in population with some of them “as fat as pigs.”
CONTRARY to popular myth, Arctic sea ice extent is not in a “death spiral“. In fact, there has been no real shrinking of Arctic sea ice in 10 years, which also corresponds to the fact that there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for nearly 20 years.
ALL this despite record “CO2” emissions over the same period, and record hot air bloviated by the trillion dollar climate crisis industry.
THE following is a remarkable post by Tony Heller from his Deplorable Climate Science Blog showing just how corrupt and politicised the “science” of the Arctic has become via the fake-news media and – sadly – from many our most respected scientific institutions including, yes, NASA…
More Spectacular Arctic Fraud At The New York Times
The New York Times just published another fake climate article – this time about the Arctic. They start the article with the claim that satellites were first used to study the Arctic in 1979.
We Charted Arctic Sea Ice for Nearly Every Day Since 1979. You’ll See a Trend. – The New York Times
Given that we traveled to the moon in 1969, it is absurd to suggest that satellites weren’t used to study the Arctic before 1979. Here is a 1964 satellite image of the Arctic which was published in National Geographic in 1965.
The National Geographic Archive | February 1965 | page 1
Here is a detailed National Geographic Arctic sea ice map from 1971.
ARCTIC OCEAN
Here is a detailed satellite image of Antarctica from 1976, also published in National Geographic.
The National Geographic Archive | November 1976 | page 1
The 1990 IPCC report included NOAA Arctic satellite data back to 1973, when it was much lower than 1979.
1990 IPCC Report
In a spectacular display of scientific malpractice, NOAA now hides all of the pre-1979 peak Arctic sea ice data. By starting right at the peak, they produce a fake linear downwards trend.
This 1985 DOE climate change report had Arctic data back to 1925, which showed little ice from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide (Technical Report) | SciTech Connect
So why did the New York Times cherry pick 1979 as their start date? Because it came at the end of three of the coldest US winters on record , and Arctic sea ice was at a century peak. The graph below combines the 1985 DOE graph with the 1990 IPCC graph.
If the New York Times authors had bothered to research their own paper, they could have found this out for themselves. It was very warm in the Arctic in 1958
The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times
Three years later, the New York Times reported a unanimous consensus that earth was cooling.
January 30, 1961 – NYTimes
By 1970, the Arctic climate was becoming more frigid, the ice was getting “ominously thicker” – and scientists were worried about a new ice age.
U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic – The New York Times
The polar ice cap had expanded 12% by 1975, after shrinking 12% before 1958. Icelandic ports were blocked with ice for the first time in the 20th century.
March 2, 1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? | Chicago Tribune Archive
National Geographic : 1976 Nov, Page 575
By hiding all the data before the 1979 peak, the New York Times is defrauding its readers. Arctic climate is cyclical – not linear.
Ninety-five years ago, the Arctic was having a meltdown.
docs.lib.noaa.gov
2 Nov 1922, Page 1 – Great Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com
Eighty years ago, the Arctic was having a meltdown.
17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier
Sixty five years ago, the Arctic was having a meltdown.
18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING
Then the New York Times went on to obscure their graph (below) to hide the fact that there has been a large increase in minimum extent since 2012. Note the “End of summer minimum” label is at the 2012 minimum – not the 2017 minimum.
The Arctic minimum extent has been increasing for a decade. The New York Times doesn’t want their readers to know this.
The New York Times is defrauding their readers at many levels. It is the fake news we have learned to expect from them.
More Spectacular Arctic Fraud At The New York Times | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
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See also :
- Arctic Full Of Multi-Year Ice | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
- Astrology And Climate Science | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
- Little Change In Arctic Sea Ice Since 1971 | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
- 97% Of Climate “Experts” Promised You The Arctic Would Be Ice-Free By 2014 | Climatism
- 12 New Scientific Papers: Oceans Cooling Globally As Glaciers Thicken | Climatism
- Crooks Still Pursuing Arctic Ice Scam | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
- CLIMATE Alarmism Has Cost Far More Than Any Global Warming Ever Could | Climatism
The Other (Inconvenient) Pole :
- Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum | NASA
- Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice was due to a ‘perfect storm’ of tropical, polar conditions – not ‘climate change’ | Climatism
Global Warming “Pause” Related :
- The Pause | Search Results | Climatism
97% Of Climate Scientists Got it Wrong About Effects Of Global Warming, related :
- The global warming backpedalling begins. “It’s less worse than we thought” | Climatism
- Delingpole: Climate Alarmists Finally Admit ‘We Were Wrong About Global Warming’
- How scientists got their global warming sums wrong — and created a £1,000,000,000,000-a-year green industry that bullied experts who dared to question the figures | The Sun UK
- Climate scientists admit they were wrong on climate change effects | Watts Up With That?
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Stable Since 2007
Posted: September 2, 2017 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Arctic, Carbon Dioxide, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice, Global Warming Stasis | Tags: "The Pause", arctic, arctic death spiral, arctic ice scam, Arctic Sea Ice, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, death spiral, global cooling, Global Warming, Global Warming "Pause", Global Warming Hiatus Leave a commentThe pause within the pause.
CO2 🤔
By Paul Homewood
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php
Contrary to popular myth, summer sea ice extent in the Arctic is not in a death spiral.
As the above DMI graph shows, August extent has been remarkably stable since 2007.
Back in March, the “experts” were telling us that the record low extent last winter would inevitably lead to lower summer extent.
For instance, Rick Thoman the climate science manager for the National Weather Service’s Alaska region told us:
“If we are starting out very low that gives a jump on the melt season. For the last few years, we have had extremely low ice cover in the summer. That means a lot more solar energy absorbed by the darker open water. That heat tends to carry over from year to year.”
NSIDC’s Ted Scambos said:
“Thin ice and beset by warm weather – not a good way to begin the melt season,”
Prof…
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Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice was due to a ‘perfect storm’ of tropical, polar conditions – not ‘climate change’
Posted: September 1, 2017 Filed under: Antarctic, Antarctica, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice | Tags: antarctic, Antarctica, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Ice 1 Comment“Scientists predict Antarctica’s ocean will be one of the last places on Earth to experience global warming. Eventually the Southern Ocean’s surface will begin to warm, however, and then sea ice there will begin its more long-term decline.”
Obligatory “however” thrown in, to fit AGW publishing requirements and ensure future funding!
While winter sea ice in the Arctic is declining so dramatically that ships can now navigate those waters without any icebreaker escort, the scene in the Southern Hemisphere is very different. Sea ice area around Antarctica has actually increased slightly in winter — that is, until last year.
A dramatic drop in Antarctic sea ice almost a year ago, during the Southern Hemisphere spring, brought its maximum area down to its lowest level in 40 years of record keeping. Ocean temperatures were also unusually warm. This exceptional, sudden nosedive in Antarctica differs from the long-term decline in the Northern Hemisphere. A new University of Washington study shows that the lack of Antarctic sea ice in 2016 was in part due to a unique one-two punch from atmospheric conditions both in the tropical Pacific Ocean and around the South Pole.
After increasing slightly in recent decades, the sea ice extent around…
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Arctic Ice Goes Above Average
Posted: April 27, 2017 Filed under: Alarmist Predictions, Arctic, Carbon Dioxide, Climate science, Global Sea Ice | Tags: Arcti Sea Ice Scam, arctic, arctic death spiral, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Sea Ice, Climate Change, Climate Change Hoax, Climate science, global cooling, Global Warming, Global Warming Hoax Leave a commentMore inconvenient climate change (aka global warming) news…
Heavy ice is making it impossible for fishermen from the Twillingate area to get to their crab fishing grounds. It may not open up until mid-May. (Twitter/@jeddore1972) Source: CBC
The title of this post sounds contradictory to most of what the media is saying about Arctic ice being in a tailspin, setting records for low extents, etc. And reports of ice blocking Newfoundland also fly in the face of media claims.
I will let you in on a secret: Arctic Ocean ice is doing fine and well above the decadal average. The only place where ice is below normal is outside the Arctic Ocean, namely Bering and Okhotsk Seas in the Pacific. Claims of disappearing ice pertain not to the Arctic itself, but to marginal Pacific seas that will melt out anyway in September.
I noticed the pattern this April when it became obvious that including Bering and Okhotsk in…
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A List of the Full Transits of the Northwest Passage
Posted: September 17, 2016 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmism uncovered, Arctic, Climate History, Fact Check, Global Sea Ice | Tags: Alarmism debunked, arctic ice scam, Climate history, Ice Free Arctic, Northwest Passage Leave a comment“Ice-Free Arctic” before Al Gore.
Historical list of “Inconvenient Truths” via Paul Homewood…
By Paul Homewood
h/t Francis
http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Fulltransits.php
Following on from the lengthy account of some of the boats which have made their way through the Northeast Passage down the years, Nauticapedia have a handy list of ones that have crossed the Northwest Passage.
The list is a long one, and many are icebreakers, so I won’t bother rehashing the lot. But some do stand out:
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