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New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds That Modern Greenland Ice Sheet Change Is Unexceptional Versus Last 140 Years

Read here. The IPCC's Climategate scientists and Goreian alarmists have claimed that Greenland is in process of substantial and irreversible change due to the global warming over the past few decades. Putting aside the hysterical hyperbole, what is the current condition of the Greenland ice sheet? Is it experiencing unprecedented change?

Recent peer-reviewed research examined the the status of the ice sheet and found that any recent change was not exceptional in the context of the past 140 years.

"In an effort to answer this important question, Wake et al., as they describe it, reconstructed the 1866-2005 surface mass-balance (SMB) history of the Greenland ice sheet on a 5 x 5 km grid "using a runoff-retention model based on the positive degree-day method,.....This they did, in their words, in order to compare "the response of the ice sheet to a recent period of warming and a similar warm period during the 1920s to examine how exceptional the recent changes are within a longer time context.".....The six scientists determined, in their words, that present-day SMB changes "are not exceptional within the last 140 years." In fact, they found that the SMB decline over the decade 1995-2005 was no different from that of the decade 1923-1933.....recent changes that have been monitored extensively (Krabill et al., 2004; Luthcke et al., 2006; Thomas et al., 2006) are representative of natural sub-decadal fluctuations in the mass balance of the ice sheet and are not necessarily the result of anthropogenic-related warming." [Wake, L.M., Huybrechts, P., Box, J.E., Hanna, E., Janssens, I. and Milne, G.A. 2009]

Russian Arctic Experts: The Arctic Has Entered Cooling Cycle & Climate Models Are Worthless

Read here. Utilizing 85 years of actual scientific data and analysis, scientists from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) published a book, Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas, that explains how the Arctic temperature and sea ice conditions are driven by natural forces, not human CO2 emissions. The authors also mock the CO2-based climate models that the IPCC Climategate scientists solely rely on:

• "They state “where data do exist, we should prefer data to computer models”; they believe model projections of future ice area fluctuations are unreliable. Actually, they have some deliciously scathing remarks about climate models.

    “The models neglect natural fluctuations because they have no means of incorporating them, and put the entire blame for climate changes since the 19th century on human activity.”"

Additional climate model articles

Polar Ice Melt: Over 90% of Melt Due To Soot, Not CO2, According To Peer-Reviewed Study

Read here. Hysterical global warming alarmists keep claiming that polar sea ice melt is due to increasing human CO2 emissions. This is extreme wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being the major factor for polar sea ice loss. h/t: Steve Goddard

"Belching from smokestacks, tailpipes and even forest fires, soot—or black carbon—can quickly sully any snow on which it happens to land.....But on snow—even at concentrations below five parts per billion—such dark carbon triggers melting, and may be responsible for as much as 94 percent of Arctic warming....."A surprisingly large temperature response is caused by a surprisingly small amount of impurities in snow in polar regions."....."When soot is there it heats the snow. It acts like a little toaster oven."....."Black carbon in snow causes about three times the temperature change as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," Zender says. "The climate is more responsive to this than [to] anything else we know.""

What The Real Data Indicates: Length of Arctic Melt Season Shows No Global Warming Trend

Read here. As AGW alarmist after AGW alarmist predicted, and as gullible reporter after gullible reporter dutifully reported, the Arctic is warming and will soon be nothing but a pond of tepid water. Of course if these predictions were true, this would mean the Arctic melt season would have lengthened - every year the melt season would be longer. Or stated another way, every year the Arctic melt season would start earlier and end later.

Guess what? The Arctic melt season has not experienced the predicted expansion trend over the last 3 decades. Instead it shows considerable variation due to natural weather/climate oscillation patterns. And based on the most current data, the 2010 melt season was the shortest in recent memory. (click on image to enlarge)

 

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Melting Predictions For Greenland & Antarctica Found To Be All Wet: Only Half What Climate Scientists Predicted

Read here. Well....it's another week and another new peer-reviewed study finds that ice sheet melting at Greenland and Antarctica is significantly below what the IPCC's Climategate scientists have claimed. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Lab and Delft University reviewed the data and determined ice melt is half the previous speculative estimates, which means sea level rises are, in essence, about half of previous predicted levels.

"Researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (US), TU Delft and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have now succeeded in carrying out that correction far more accurately. They did so using combined data from the GRACE mission, GPS measurements on land and sea floor pressure measurements. These reveal that the sea floor under Greenland is falling more rapidly than was first thought. One of the researchers, Dr Bert Vermeersen of TU Delft, explains: 'The corrections for deformations of the Earth’s crust have a considerable effect on the amount of ice that is estimated to be melting each year. We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted.' The average rise in sea levels as a result of the melting ice caps is also lower."

Greenland Spawns 10,000 to 40,000 Icebergs Per Year; Some Are Small & Some Are Size of Manhattan

Read here. Recently, a large tongue of glacier ice that was floating on the sea broke off. This 9-mile wide river of ice had gradually pushed itself some 40 miles into the waters over recent years. As every individual with an interest in science would have predicted, the weight of this ice beast would eventually cause a break-off somewhere along its 40-mile length. And on August 3, 2010, it did just that as captured by satellite.

Of course, it didn't take long for the moronic left to claim that a huge river of ice that's been growing since 2002 to be a victim of global warming. The fact that the glacier tongue break was not due to warming but instead to its growing too much is irrelevant science to the liberal/left/progressive AGW fanatics. To get a sense of how moronic the U.S. Democrats sound to the world about science issues, just read this EU scientist's take on our version of "liberal" politicians. The constant science stupidity that Democrats reveal is mind-numbing and dangerous.

Researchers Discover Irrefutable Proof That Arctic Sea Ice Had Disappeared In The mid-1800's

Read here. The British ship, HMS Investigator, sailed the Arctic area in the 1850's. The ship was abandoned and then sunk. After 150+ years the sea ice finally retreated enough to allow researchers to find the HMS Investigator, on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.

Sooooo.....during the 1850's, well before the huge spike in human CO2 emissions, the area north of the Arctic Circle was so free of ice that a wooden ship with sails could easily traverse the area. Simply put, this is irrefutable historical evidence about large scale sea ice melt, which proves that the Arctic has 'been there, done that.'

"Interesting that the ship was lost in 1853, right at the end of the Little Ice Age, and coincidentally just 3 years after the start of the HADCRU global temperature record, from which we are led to believe the earth has warmed about 0.7C. If we are seeing "unprecedented" global temperatures and changes in Arctic sea ice, how did the HMS Investigator get this far north at the end of the Little Ice Age?"

High Arctic Region Reveals Zero Climate Change Since 1930's, New Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

Read here. Map source here. The past decade has been filled with climate warming alarmist predictions that CO2-induced warming is running amok, globally causing significant climate change. The most significant change that global warming was predicted to cause would have happened in the polar regions. As is often the case, the alarmist polar predictions are frequently incorrect.

Recently, scientists conducted research on the same plot of Arctic land where research was done back in the 1930's. What did they find? Climate change from "global warming" was non-existent.

"Parmesan (2006) wrote that "nearly every Arctic ecosystem shows marked shifts due to climate change," and as a result, the authors decided to see if such was the case at a study site in the High Arctic located at 78°38'N, 16°45'E, near Brucebyen at the Adolfbukta Bay in central Spitsbergen (Svalbard), where the vegetation had been carefully surveyed, identified and mapped in the 1930s and the results published by Acock (1940).....In the summer of 2008, Prach et al. repeated the vegetation mapping and identification of species "on the same strip of land 2,042 x 521 meters in size, as surveyed by Acock in 1936-1937 and using the same methods.".....The four researchers, all from the Czech Republic, report that their work "did not reveal any changes in vegetation, since a previous study in 1936-1937, that could be attributed to climate change.".....maybe it just hasn't warmed as much in this High Arctic land as the world's climate alarmists would have us believe, which is also suggested by Prach et al."

CO2-AGW Alarmist Science Hits Iceberg: Study Reveals Human CO2 Has Zero Impact On Antarctica Melting/Warming

Read here. Researchers from Cryospheric Processes Laboratory and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) monitor various attributes of the S. Hemisphere/Antarctica and have documented that recently the snow melt index for the southern continent has reached its lowest point ever. Their research indicates the snow melt index is likely driven by the major ocean and atmosphere oscillations for that area of the world - in other words, Antarctica melting/warming has nothing to do with human CO2 emissions over the last 30 years.

We've superimposed the linear-like growth of CO2 levels for the past 30 years on the chart below. Clearly, the Antarctica climate is not warming due to the rapid growth of human CO2 emissions. Nor does it even appear to be influenced by CO2 levels. The alarmist AGW prediction that Antarctica was going to melt due to CO2 was (and is) absolute rubbish. (click on image to enlarge)

"Tedesco and Monaghan begin by noting “Melting over Antarctica has been monitored since 1979 using spaceborne passive microwave observations. The sign of the melting trends over Antarctica is variable at regional scales, depending on the period analyzed and on the indices used, with the continent-averaged trend being negligible.”.....observed that snowmelt was at a record low for the 30-year period between 1979 and 2009. Specifically, the Antarctic snowmelt index (the number of days on which melt occurs multiplied by the area subject to melting) in 2008–2009 set a new historical minimum.” They explain further “Negative melting anomalies indicate that melting occurred fewer days than the average over the past 30 years.”.....with only one small exception, the entire coastline of Antarctica experienced a low amount of melting – this was widespread and not regionally confined. Claims that Antarctica is melting are simply not consistent with the facts!"

2010 Peer-Reviewed Study: GRACE Satellite Measurements of Sea Level Rise & Ice Sheet Mass Loss Are Worthless

Read here.  The new technology that GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite measurements represent appears to have major biases and is error-prone. Unfortunately, climate scientists who advocate climate alarmism misuse the GRACE findings to support their views without stating the critical GRACE short-comings. (Update: new GRACE article from WUWT.)

"In an effort designed to provide some of that "detailed understanding" of GRACE's "errors and biases," Quinn and Ponte conducted what they describe as "a detailed analysis of processing and post-processing factors affecting GRACE estimates of ocean mass trends," by "comparing results from different data centers...".....The two researchers report that the mean ocean mass trends they calculated "vary quite dramatically depending on which GRACE product is used, which adjustments are applied, and how the data are processed.".....In light of the fact that Quinn and Ponte indicate that "over the last century, the rate of sea level rise has been only 1.7 ± 0.5 mm/year, based on tide gauge reconstructions (Church and White, 2006)," it seems a bit strange that one would ever question that result on the basis of a GRACE-derived assessment, with its many and potentially very large "errors and biases.".....Clearly, the GRACE approach to evaluating ocean mass and sea level trends still has a long way to go -- and must develop a long history of data acquisition -- before it can ever be considered a reliable means of providing assessments of ocean mass and sea level change"

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. II: Arctic Summer Temps Well Below Normal

Read here. As we mentioned before (Part 1) about the Arctic has been acting cold this summer - turns out it has been.

Another Global Cooling Indicator: Arctic Ice Melt Slowest/Smallest Ever Recorded!

Read here. Well...er,..okay...the smallest melt rate for the first 15 days of July then!  (Hot update on sea ice melt from Watts Up With That: Sea Ice News #14 – an inconvenient July.)

In spite of the constant, ludicrous, short-term, navel-gazing pronouncements of U.S. climate scientists and their useful idiots, the mainstream press, the world is not burning up, nor melting. If climate scientists feel so strongly that the focus should be on the short-term, then the above indicator of Arctic ice melt is surely important and indicative also. It does seem to confirm what is happening over the medium-term, globally:

The Al Gore Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse & Global Drowning: When? -- Latest Peer-Research Indicates It's Not Very Likely, Ever

Read here. Global warming scare myths have been very effective tools employed by the the likes of Al Gore and James Hansen to frighten the undereducated and science illiterates, such as Hollywood celebrities and MSM journalists/pundits. One of the most effective scare myths has been the imminent West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) collapse, due to human CO2-induced global warming, which will raise sea levels to extraordinary heights. Luckily for humanity, the actual ice sheet science reveals the Gore/Hansen scare myth to be without merit - in other words, fraudulent speculation.

What's important to know is that the peer-reviewed science has determined that a WAIS collapse has not even happened when temperatures were significantly warmer in the ancient past. And, if it were to happen in the future, it would take thousands of years of ludicrously high, and sustained, southern ocean temperatures (not air). In summary, not bloody likely, mate.

"And once started, he says that the transition time for a total collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet would range from "one thousand to several thousand years," which time period, in his words, "is nowhere near the century timescales for West Antarctic ice-sheet decay based on simple marine ice-sheet models," such as have been employed in the past.....the specter of 21st-century sea level rise being measured in meters -- as hyped by Al Gore and James Hansen -- can be seen to be receding ever further into the distance of unreality. What is more, and in spite of the current interglacial's current relative coolness, the Vostok ice core data indicate that the current interglacial has been by far the longest stable warm period of the entire 420,000-year record, which suggests we are probably long overdue for the next ice age to begin, and that we may not have the "5 to 50 centuries" that O'Neill and Oppenheimer suggest could be needed to bring about the WAIS disintegration subsequent to the attainment of whatever temperature in excess of 4 or 5°C above the current global mean would be needed to initiate the process...In conclusion, therefore, it would appear that the climate-alarmist vision of impending WAIS collapse and disintegration is nothing more than an ill-founded hallucination."

Antarctic Glacier Melt: Newest Research Points To Non-CO2 Melting Causes

Read here. As the temperature chart on the left reveals (click on image to enlarge), sea surface temperatures have generally been declining around the Pine Island Glacier over the last 30 years. This evidence is in contrast to global warming alarmista claims that Antarctic glaciers have been shrinking due to CO2-induced warming. Now, real-working scientists have discovered a different cause of the shrinking glacier that has nothing to do with human CO2 emissions.

“The discovery of the ridge has raised new questions about whether the current loss of ice from Pine Island Glacier is caused by recent climate change or is a continuation of a longer-term process that began when the glacier disconnected from the ridge.....“We do not know what kick-started the initial retreat from the ridge, but we do know that it started some time prior to 1970. Since detailed observations of Pine Island Glacier only began in the 1990s, we now need to use other techniques such as ice core analysis and computer modelling to look much further into the glacier’s history in order to understand if what we see now is part of a long term trend of ice sheet contraction."

Another IPCC "Consensus" AGW Science Issue Found To Be Wrong: New Glacier Melt Study Refutes IPCC

Read here. New peer-reviewed research finds that at least 50% of the Swiss Alp glacier retreat and melt is due to natural variability, not the 100% man-made cause assigned by the IPCC. The study also suggests that the natural glacier variability is probably true for all glaciers, worldwide.

"In the relatively well-monitored Swiss Alps, however, Huss and his team managed to gather some 10,000 in situ  observations that had been made over the past 100 years, and constructed three-dimensional computer models of 30 glaciers. By comparing a time series of daily melt, snow accumulation and ice and snow volume readings of the glaciers with a widely used index of the AMO [Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation], they teased out the impact of natural climate variability. Although the mass balance of individual glaciers varied, the long-term overall trend followed the pulse of the AMO.....Natural climate variability is likely to have driven twentieth-century glacier shrinkage and thinning in other parts of the world, says Kaser. For example, his own research on the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania suggests that their dramatic recession is mainly due to multidecadal fluctuations in air moisture"

h/t: Tom Nelson

Satellites Confirm Greenland Ice Sheet's Incredibly Tiny Melt Rate - OMG, It May Disappear, In About 19,000 Years

Read here. Greenland's ice sheet has been melting for well over 12,000 years (and was even smaller in recent past). It continues to melt around the edges due to warmer ocean currents lapping at its edges, not because of a warmer atmosphere. Using satellite technology, expert scientist Scott Luthcke's research indicates that Greenland possibly has been melting at at a rate that represents only 0.005% to 0.008% of its volume.

What does this really mean? The ice sheet may take some 19,000 years to melt entirely. If the present global cooling trend continues, then it would take longer. ;-) (And scientists remain unconvinced that ice sheets would ever melt entirely based on most recent evidence.)

Putting it into perspective........

"So the next time you read something  that breathlessly says.....“If this activity in northwest Greenland continues and really accelerates some of the major glaciers in the area — like the Humboldt Glacier and the Peterman Glacier — Greenland’s total ice loss could easily be increased by an additional 50 to 100 cubic kilometers (12 to 24 cubic miles) within a few years”.....you can say “Well, if it does increase by the larger estimate of 100 cubic km per year, and that’s a big if since the scientists are just guessing, that would increase the loss from 0.007% per year to around 0.010% per year, meaning that the Greenland Ice Cap would only last until May 23rd, 12010.”"

New Peer-Research Finds Alaskan/Canadian Glaciers Melting Significantly Less Than Previous Estimates

Read here. Global warming alarmists and associated IPCC scientists have made erroneous claims about glaciers worldwide. The basic claim is that glaciers are rapidly melting, adding to rising sea-levels because of human CO2-induced warming. As with almost all of these claims, they shrink to minor issues when proper scientific observation is finally applied.

"The five scientists report that "between 1962 and 2006, Alaskan glaciers lost 41.9 ± 8.6 km3  per year of water, and contributed 0.12 ± 0.02 mm per year to sea-level rise," which they note was 34% less than estimated by Arendt et al. (20002) and Meier and Dyurgerov (2002)...In addition to significantly revising what was previously believed about the magnitude of ice wastage in Alaska and northwest Canada in recent decades, Berthier et al. say their results suggest that "estimates of mass loss from glaciers and ice caps in other mountain regions could be subject to similar revisions," all of which would tend to mitigate against the rapidity with which the world's climate alarmists have long contended earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps were wasting away and thereby contributing to global sea level rise."

UK Peer-Research Finds Melting Polar Ice Will Cause Seas To Rise A Total of 1 Inch, Over 526 Years!

Read here. The idiocy of climate alarmist scientists knows now bounds. They will take the flimsiest of evidence, and for purely political reasons, publicize it as a major climate risk due to carbon dioxide emissions. Because mainstream media reporters and editors share the same political agenda as the climate scientists, headlines like this are created:

"Melting icebergs causing sea level rise"

Of course, that "sea level rise" is only 49 micrometers per year, as the scientists explain, which amounts to a 1 inch increase per 526 years. If climate alarmist scientists were not so desperate to politicize every nano-crumb of evidence into a world crisis, this type of information would barely make page 11 of National Enquirer, let alone major metropolitan dailies.

Memo to Judith Curry, the skeptics' favorite climate alarmist scientist: As this sea level rise story indicates, the politicization of climate science problem, and the harm done to true science, is not the result of Senator Inhofe, Marc Morano, and Rush Limbaugh. The original roots of the politicization of climate science, and its continuous maintenance, depends on such luminaries as: A. Gore, T. Wirth, Obama, J. Holdren, P. Erlich, M. Strong, Ted Turner, Paul "You're Treasonous" Krugman, Tom Friedman, P. Jones, B. Santer, Overpeck, M. Mann, K. Trenberth and a large cornucopia of others. If you don't understand the level of politicization expounded by such people, and their true objectives, then read what they have to say.

In the meantime, your political commentary regarding skeptics is ludicrous and self-serving. If you want the politicization to stop, hold your nose and go talk (complain) to your alarmist overlords. 

2010, The Start of New Ice Age? Arctic Sea Ice At Its Highest Level & Growing! Is Humanity Doomed?

Read here. U.S. government climate "experts" predicted that Arctic sea ice would melt to nothing because of the CO2-induced "unprecedented" (not) warming. As with almost all climate predictions emanating from U.S. climate scientists, nature is proving them wrong.

Why are U.S. climate scientists always so wrong? Are they just incredibly stupid? Nope, that's not the case - it's more venal than that. Simply put, their research funding (and salaries) provides the necessary incentive to mislead and lie about the global warming "crisis." Like all humans, scientists can be corrupted too.

For more failed predictions, read on. (click on left image to enlarge)

 

The Natural Climate Makes Sea Ice Experts' Predictions Look Big-Time Stupid: Experts Stunned By Polar Sea Ice Growth

Read here. Great article regarding the wild and irresponsible predictions by "experts" about the Arctic sea ice extent (or lack of) made over the last decade. Simply summarized, for political and funding reasons, scientists made claims about melting sea ice, based on models that were designed to predict melting sea ice in the first place -- it's a simple as that. No IPCC scientist or government expert predicted, nor any climate model, that the polar sea ice would actually expand as the chart below shows. Consensus "science" and climate models present a united front in documenting why both are worthless.

At the end of the article is a rationale, scientific explanation of what happened to cause the melting Arctic sea ice from a non-hysterical scientist, unlike those representing the IPCC and the NSIDC. (click on image to enlarge)

A few "expert" quotes from the article -

2007: "And Serreze, "concerned at the accelerated annual loss of Arctic ice", was predicting that the entire polar region, including the North Pole, could witness a total summer melt by 2030."

2007: "He and his team were offering "modelling studies" that indicated northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years, putting the complete disappearance of summer ice at 2013."

2008: "Serreze was back in the fray in June 2008, offering 50-50 odds that the North Pole would be ice-free that summer, "a first in recorded history", he claimed. And, even if it didn't happen that year, it was "just a matter of time"."

2008: "With predictions mounting that the 2008 melt could surpass the "extraordinary 2007 record low", in the August, Serreze was talking to Reuters, telling them that last year's record was blamed squarely on human-spurred climate change. "No matter where we stand at the end of the melt season it's just reinforcing this notion that Arctic ice is in its death spiral," said Serreze."

2009: "the NSIDC, this time in the form of Walt Meier, a research scientist, was saying that the Arctic Ocean "will" be effectively ice free sometime between 2020 and 2040, although it is possible it could happen as early as 2013."

2009: "another study was claiming that: "virtually all the sea ice in the Arctic will have melted during the summer months by 2037, and that it may even disappear as soon as the summer of 2020." The survey was carried out by scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington in Seattle "using the six most sensitive computer models of the Arctic region."

How Bad Was The Antarctica Snow & Ice Melt The Last 30 Years? New Research Confirms Melting Not A Biggie

Read here. Two researchers review the Antarctica evidence from the last thirty years and come to conclusion that it's not going to be disappearing anytime soon. 

"Over the course of the past three decades, Tedesco and Monaghan report that the continent-wide snow and ice melting trend was, in a word, "negligible." And they say that during the 2008-2009 austral summer, scientists from the City University of New York and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research observed that snow and ice melt was, in a few more words, "a record low for the 30-year period between 1979 and 2009," or as they alternatively describe it, they say it was "a new historical minimum."

What Has Caused The Three Decade Anarctica Sea-Ice Expansion? The "Climate Experts" Can Only Guess

Read here. Based on satellite observations, the sea ice extant has been increasing at a rate close to 1% per year. Researchers speculate that ozone has caused increase but a climate model suggests growth is within natural climate variability. The CO2-AGW theory predicts that Antarctica should be warming and the sea ice pack should be shrinking.

"The only thing we can conclude at this point in time, therefore, is that for some still-unproven reason, and in spite of the supposedly unprecedented increases in mean global air temperature and CO2 concentration that the planet has experienced since the late 1970s, Antarctica sea ice extent has stubbornly continued to just keep on growing."

Greenland Glaciers Disappeared During Holocene Thermal Maximum & Low CO2 Levels, Peer-Research Experts Discover

Read here. As Earth's climate has cycled through changes over the geological time, Greenland has faithfully recorded the changes. The glaciers and ice sheets responded accordingly, thus confirming that major climate change (including melting glaciers) will occur whether CO2 levels are low or high.

"Even in ice-cold Greenland, Holocene temperatures followed much the same temporal pattern observed in other parts of the world, as did the advance and retreat modes of its local glaciers, with maximum glacier extensions occurring during the coldest period of the current interglacial (the Little Ice Age). As a result, it was only to be expected that once the millennial-scale oscillation of temperature bottomed out and began to rise again, the result would be a significant warming and recession of local glaciers, irrespective of anything the air's CO2 content might do..."

Global Cooling Causes More Arctic Ice To Melt? Peer-Research Finds This Has Happened Before

Read here. It's just not intuitive to think that a period of global cooling would result in a time of greater ice melt but that's exactly what happened during the 'cooling' 1950's, as peer research has now discovered. More recently, the global warming alarmists keep bemoaning the large 2007 ice melt, and predicting the warming will soon bring us ice-free Arctic waters. Interestingly, the recent greater ice melt has happened whilst the Earth cools. Why does cooling seem to cause Arctic melting? Future science research will hopefully explain.

And, we should note that there's a science truism that every politician, Hollywood celebrity, and mainstream press reporter/pundits should be forced to repeat 3 times prior to opening their mouths while their brain is disengaged: "The science is NEVER settled." Yes, a good dose of critical skepticism would save so many of these left/liberal types from the constant humiliation of moronism.

Multiple Antarctica Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Sea Ice Growth Over Decades; Scientists Befuddled Why Climate Models Are Wrong

Read here. As the mainstream press has popularized, Earth's polar regions are supposed to warm and the sea ice area is supposed to shrink. Why? Because climate models predicted it, and reporters and pundits just accept 100% all climate model predictions, without a sliver of reservation. As with most other climate predictions though, over the last several decades the CO2-based climate models have been spectacularly wrong regarding the South Pole. Actual peer-reviewed research based on empirical evidence confirms this.

Arctic Sea Ice Decline In Past Far Exceeded Modern Sea Ice Retreat (Multiple Times), Peer-Research Discovers

Read here. Earth's climate is constantly changing as it oscillates from one extreme to another. As the researchers documented, this oscillation also affects the Arctic area and its sea ice. During ancient periods, the earth was a lot warmer and produced periods where Arctic sea ice decline was substantial.

"Since the change in sea-ice cover observed at the end of the 20th century (which climate alarmists claim to be unnatural) was far exceeded by changes observed multiple times over the past several thousand years of relatively stable atmospheric CO2 concentrations (when values never strayed much below 250 ppm or much above 275 ppm), there is no compelling reason to believe that the increase in the air's CO2 content that has occurred since the start of the Industrial Revolution has had anything at all to do with the declining sea-ice cover of the recent past..."

Glaciers Melted Faster During 1940's Before Large Increase of Human CO2 Emissions, Scientists Discover

Read here. From the "science is never, ever settled department," new peer-reviewed research does in depth study on glaciers' retreat and find it's due to enhanced solar radiation.

"Snow and ice melt was stronger in the 1940s than in recent years, in spite of significantly higher air temperatures in the present decade. An inner Alpine radiation record shows that in the 1940s global shortwave radiation over the summer months was 8% above the long-term average and significantly higher than today, favoring rapid glacier mass loss."

Likelihood of Arctic Sea Soon Disappearing, Mr. Gore? Not Bloody Likely, As His Lord Monckton Might Say

Read here, here and here. Arctic sea ice is affected by a number of powerful forces other than air temperatures. Although polar sea ice could have disappeared for short spans during the very warm summers in the past, the present Arctic sea ice condition remains quite large, even at its minimum during the summer months. For a historical perspective of the melting Arctic sea ice saga, this is an excellent piece. And despite the climate "expert predictions" that the South Pole sea ice would also soon disappear, since 1979 nothing could be further from the truth as 2009 was a record sea ice extent year. (click on image to enlarge)

Glacier Ice Science: Multiple Studies Indicate There Is No "Consensus" About Glaciers

Read here, here, and here. From the bowels of Climategate, we've learned of the corruption and treachery of a group of high level climate scientists. We also learned of their insufferable arrogance, which may be the ultimate climate forcing that has led to investigations for some. Often this arrogance is presented in terms of "consensus," when in reality there is no such thing in climate science. One of the supposed areas of "consensus" is in the field of glaciers - "there all melting and will soon disappear"! As the above linked articles indicate, the science of glaciers is in its infancy and it is dynamic. New discoveries are being made all the time, which keeps upsetting the current thinking.

Despite the new science that indicates glaciers aren't as in dire danger as hyped, the IPCC continues to insist that their old science is correct. It's not only the individual climate scientist that is arrogant.

Glaciers of Polar Urals Have Barely Shrunk During "Unprecedented" & "Accelerating" Global Warming Peer-Reviewed Research Finds

Read here. As every climate alarmist and pundit states, and most journalists will blindly parrot, glaciers across the world are shrinking and disappearing because of human CO2-caused global warming and/or climate change, take your pick. Per usual, the alarmists and the MSM press are wrong, as not only the Russian glaciers show, but also the glaciers in Norway and Alaska.

Old "Settled Science" Consensus: W. Antarctic Is Quickly Melting; New Consensus: Old Consensus Was Wrong Scientists Discover

Read here. Better equipment and better science finds that West Antarctic ice sheet is not melting nearly as fast as NASA was stating. Plus, the scientists confirmed the ice sheet has been melting over 20,000 years since the last ice age. Who would have thunk? Global warming "consensus" can be counted on to be non-settled science.

What's Revkin, Begley, Eilperin & Big MSM Outlets Have To Say About The 2009 Record Low Antarctic Ice Melt? Amazingly, Zilch

Read here. The MSM, and its major science reporters, has a long history of not even achieving a low level of objectivity and honesty in their global warming and climate change coverage. As an example of this low standard of reporting, a 2009 major climate condition has gone totally unreported (as of October 27, 2009) by the mainstream media - Antarctica is not melting - as global warming alarmists claim. Thank goodness though, the Revkin's of the world are reporting Arctic polar science in a much more complete and serious manner. For most citizens, this type of "reporting" by the press has become a joke, which has not reflected well on the major news outlets. (click image to enlarge)

Himalayan Glaciers Melting Due To CO2? Recent Research Studies Confirm That's Not The Case

Read here, here, here, here, and here. Climate alarmists and green organizations have fabricated stories about Himalayan glaciers melting due to human CO2 in order to raise contributors' donations. Like all other global warming and climate change hysterical claims, the actual science and truth point to culprits other than CO2.

Multiple Factors Caused 100% of Arctic Warming: Ozone, Soot, Ocean Cycles, Solar & Wind Circulations - Peer-Reviewed Studies Ignore CO2

Read here, here, here, here, and here. For all the CO2-causes-warming alarmist hysteria emanating from bureaucrats, politicians, the MSM and Hollywood celebrities about the Arctic, one would think climate researchers would have published numerous studies directly linking human-CO2 to Arctic warming/melting. Instead,.....

Greenland Lake Confirms Much Higher Temperatures In Past Versus Modern Temps - Peer-Reviewed Research Documents

Read here. Expert research continues to affirm previous findings that Arctic/Polar area temperatures were significantly higher than what is being experienced presently. (click image to enlarge)

 

Greenland Overheating? Based On Extensive Research of SW Greenland, It's Not Happening - For Past 75 Years!

Read here. All the MSM hysteria about Greenland melting just does not jive with the scientific peer-researched studies. Global warming is not affecting southwest Greenland based on 220+ years of data. Like almost every previous study, this study confirmed that temperatures were warmer during the 1930's.

MSM Reporting Exposed As Sensationalist Hype: Ice Sheets Are Not Going To Collapse Into Oceans

Read here and here. "Science" reporters have a penchant for reporting that Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will soon collapse into oceans, resulting in flooded coastal areas and drowned islands. Experts say collapse is not only nonsense, it's impossible for for some very basic science reasons.

MSM Arctic Reporting: Global Warming Hype Trumps Science & Facts; As With Dan Rather, Bloggers Nail Truth

Read here and here. The usual suspects, AP and NYT, hype the Arctic global warming scare angle instead of discussing the actual history and science particulars. Plus, minimizing the advanced technology angle that makes the difficult possible.

Another Simulated "Hockey Stick" Temperature Study Runs Into Truth Buzzsaw: Simulated Arctic Temperatures Failing Reality Test

Read here, here, and here. These simulated temperature studies using the discredited techniques of the 'hockey stick' author cannot stand up to scrutiny or validation, other than by MSM "journalists."

Recent Peer-Reviewed Research Confirms Arctic Warming Due To Natural Causes - CO2 Global Warming Found 'Not-Guilty' By Experts

Read here, here, here, here, here, and here. Multiple research efforts have determined that a combination of natural climate forces (Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Transpolar Drift Stream, cyclical flow of atmospheric energy around Arctic Circle) have created a warming environment in the Arctic area. The research also confirms that it has been warmer in the Arctic prior to this current period. Read here about 1944 ship journey via Northwest Passage. The image below is another testament to previous Arctic warming. (click to enlarge)

MSM Reporter Exaggerates Greenland Ice Loss By 25 Times; Fabricates Fear Stories For Copenhagen That Newest Research Refutes

Read here. Reporter claims Greenland ice mass loss is over 300 gigatonnes per year, when it's actually been trending about 12 gigatonnes/year. Of course, if he was correct, there would have been a noticeable world sea level rise but that has not happened. And, the fact that Antarctic ice mass growth offsets Greenland's loss is conveniently glossed over.

Greenland Warming Unprecedented: Ooops, New Study Confirms That 1919-1933 Warming Was 33% Greater Than 1994-2007

Read here. Another global warming alarmist claim/lie squashed. Real science is unrelenting - the truth is out here, and it will be found.

It Ain't Melting Soon: New Greenland Ice Sheet Study Finds Surface Mass Increased 63% From 1958 to 2008

Read here. Couple this with Greenpeace admission that "Arctic ice would disappear by 2030" was a "mistake" (an exaggeration of a speculative prediction), plus the news that polar bears are prospering this summer, and it really becomes obvious: global warming alarmists have no clue what they speak of and any prediction coming from their mouths should be ignored.

Arctic Sea-Ice Cover Extent Has Experienced Wide Variation In Past That Exceeds Present Decrease/Increase of Ice Cover, Artic Experts Report

Read here. Climate alarmists wrong in assertion that decline of arctic sea-ice is new.

Climate Ice-Sheet Models Proven Wrong On Antarctica's Ice Sheets; "Global Warming" Has No Effect On Current Melt

Read here. Climate alarmist scaremongering about ice sheets is without any factual, scientific evidence.

#53. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change

Synopsis: Ice sheets are not going disintegrate and melt causing large sea level rises.

#49. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change

Synopsis: The non-warming of Antarctica is invalidation of AGW-CO2 hypothesis.

#48. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change

Synopsis: Sea ice level reduction and expansion in both the Arctic and Antarctica are result of natural climate forces not CO2 levels.

Arctic Expert In NYT: Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be Open Sea! -- (Published 2/20/69)

Download PDF here. (H/T) Next time you hear an "expert" say this, remember it's been said before, a long, long, loooooong time ago. Wrong then, wrong now.

Will Greenland Ice Sheet 'Slip' Into Sea Causing Huge Sea Level Rises? Sorry, Not Going To Happen

Read here. There are actual Congresspersons who still believe this. Yikes!