Antarctica – 91 volcanoes coincidentally found under glaciers warming “due to...
It’s possibly the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world, some as high as 4km and we didn’t even know these existed til recently. Despite that overwhelming ignorance, we’re 97.00% certain that...
View ArticleAntarctica cooling since Roman Times, climate models wrong (again)
A new study suggests temperatures across Antarctica have been falling for the last 1,600 years. This natural climate change would have been a threat to baby penguins, forcing them to walk much further...
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 Ice Loss Tripled, from near zero to an extremely tiny number!...
Quick — tax the magma It’s another round of Antarctic Doom about next to nothing. In April Antarctica’s ice was melting five times faster than usual. Now it’s losing ice three times faster in the last...
View ArticleFar Southern Ocean cools. Kiss Goodbye to polar amplication around Antarctica
A map of the sea surface zone that has cooled since 1979 — from 56S – 72S . It’s a pretty big area. Click to enlarge. For years the IPCC have said that warming would be amplified at the poles. They...
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 ArticleAntarctica was warmer one thousand years ago — and life was OK
Remember when polar amplification was the rage? So much for that theory Antarctica is twice the size of the US or Australia. Buried 2 km deep under domes of snow, it holds 58 meters of global sea level...
View ArticleSSW, Sudden Stratospheric Warming hitting a record over Antarctica, Ozone...
Two days ago over the Antarctic the SSW or Sudden Stratospheric Warming was still running strong up at 10 hPa or around 30 km high. NIWA claim it may be the strongest SSW seen in the Southern...
View ArticlePenguins pretty happy about melting sea ice
Adelie Penguins would probably benefit from a bit of global warming. When 175 were tagged and tracked it turned out that they ate more krill when there was less sea ice. This is not so surprising given...
View ArticleMinus 81 Celsius last week in Antarctica
It was ten degrees below normal at Scott Base, in June, and usually July is the coldest month. Pitch black, minus 81C and a howling wind. Scott Base crew enduring near-record breaking Antarctica winter...
View ArticleClimate change makes Antarctic summers… cooler
Forty years of global warming have made East Antarctic summers even shorter and more miserably colder than they already were. (Save the wilderness — burn coal now?) Surface Air temperature over East...
View ArticleSouth Pole has coldest winter ever, but it’s just “a blip”
The sun has just risen on South Pole after the coldest six month period on record since 1956. The last winter there was suddenly 2.2 degrees Celsius colder than the average for the last 30 years....
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...
View ArticleAntarctic ice shelves are melting slower than they were 40 years ago
By Jo Nova Despite the dreaded “polar amplification” and 1,000 new coal fired plants in China, apparently the fragile Antarctic ice shelves have barely changed in the last 40 years. Indeed, instead of...
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