Antarctic Elephant Seal Breeding Site Affirms There Was Far Less Sea Ice During Medieval, Roman Periods
Antarctic Elephant Seal Breeding Site Affirms There Was Far Less Sea Ice During Medieval, Roman Periods By Kenneth Richard on 13. May 2025 DNA evidence suggests the limit of Antarctic sea ice was ~2000 kilometers farther south than it is today 2500 to 1000 years ago. Elephant seals can only breed in the Southern Ocean’s subantarctic, sea ice […]
U. of Cambridge prof Mike Hulme declares his dissent: ‘I disagree with the doom-mongers’ – ‘Climate change is cited as the sole explanation for everything going wrong in the world. Drought, famine, flooding, wars, racism – you name it’
Via UK Daily Mail – May 8, 2025: Excerpt: A University of Cambridge professor said skeptics still have a valid argument about so-called ‘climate alarmists.’ Mike Hulme told DailyMail.com that climate alarmists have created so much distrust and ill will among the public by blaming almost all of society’s issues on the climate emergency. ‘Climate change […]
Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows! Sees ‘a record-breaking mass gain’
Via: https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-astonishing-rebound-ice-sheet-grows-for-the-first-time-in-decades/ The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has historically lost mass, significantly contributing to sea-level rise, with intensified losses in West Antarctica and parts of East Antarctica, particularly from 2011–2020. However, between 2021 and 2023, driven by anomalous precipitation, the AIS experienced a record-breaking mass gain, even reversing trends in critical glacier basins like Totten, Moscow, […]
Surprise! Two new studies find ice is rebounding at BOTH poles! ‘Surprising pause’ in Arctic sea ice decline & Antarctica sees ‘record-breaking accumulation of ice’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/opinion/ice-rebounds-at-both-poles-climate-more-complex-than-known/ Roger Pielke Jr. is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who writes at The Honest Broker on Substack. Excerpt: Two new studies show that the Earth’s climate is far more complex than often acknowledged, reminding us of the importance of pragmatic energy and climate policies. One of them, led by researchers […]
STUDY: Antarctica gains ice for first time in decades, reversing trend of mass loss – ‘Showed significant growth due to increased snowfall’
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/antarctica-ice-sheet-growth By Austin Williams The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall. The mass gain briefly contributed to a decrease in global sea level rise, according to satellite data. A surprising shift […]
Antarctica Ice Growing Across Large Areas for at Least 85 Years, Aerial Photos Show – Study published in journal Nature Communications
Antarctica Ice Growing Across Large Areas for at Least 85 Years, Aerial Photos Show From THE DAILY SCEPTIC by Chris Morrison Sensational new discoveries arising from long-forgotten early aerial photographs indicate that ice has remained stable and even grown slightly since the 1930s over a 2,000 km stretch of East Antarctica. In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, […]
The drought of 1977 was blamed on global cooling & increasing polar ice – Now droughts are blamed on global warming & decreasing polar ice
The drought of 1977 was blamed on global cooling and increasing polar ice. Now droughts are blamed on global warming and decreasing polar ice.https://t.co/09BKU4MSZy pic.twitter.com/yde6KdA3bX — Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) January 15, 2025
New Study: 47 years of iceberg data finds ‘extreme calving events’ in Antarctica ‘are statistically unexceptional’ & ‘are not necessarily a consequence of climate change’ – Published in Geophysical Research Letters
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL112235?campaign=woletoc#main1 Abstract Massive calving events result in significant instantaneous ice loss from Antarctica. The rarity and stochastic nature of these extreme events makes it difficult to understand their physical drivers, temporal trends, and future likelihood. To address this challenge, we turn to extreme value theory to investigate past trends in annual maxima iceberg area and […]
It’s an emergency! Green plants spreading at alarming rate in Antarctica – ’12 square kilometers of more habitable land on a continent with 14 million square kilometers of ice’
It’s an emergency! Green plants spreading at alarming rate in Antarctica By Jo Nova Lesson #457 in how to lie with science File this lesson away in the Decline and Fall of Enlightenment Science. Nature, formerly known as the esteemed science journal, is now achieving everything a captured tabloid industry sales mag could hope for. They’ve squeezed […]
Antarctic ice expanding! New Study in journal Nature reveals ’85 years of glacier growth & stability in East Antarctica’ – ‘Ice-sheet wide mass balance estimates start[ed] in late 1970s…have exhibited either an overall mass gain or been relative unchanged’
Early aerial expedition photos reveal 85 years of glacier growth and stability in East Antarctica
Published: Mads Dømgaard, Anders Schomacker, Elisabeth Isaksson, Romain Millan, Flora Huiban, Amaury Dehecq, Amanda Fleischer, Geir Moholdt, Jonas K. Andersen & Anders A. Bjørk
Nature Communications: Our results demonstrate that the stability and growth in ice elevations observed in terrestrial basins over the past few decades are part of a trend spanning at least a century, and highlight the importance of understanding long-term changes when interpreting current dynamics. … However, in Antarctica, the scarcity of historical climate data makes climate reanalysis estimates before the 1970s largely uncertain10,23, and observed trends cannot clearly be distinguished from natural variability24,25.
Currently, the earliest ice-sheet wide mass balance estimates start in the late 1970s3,6,7, and since then all the sub-regions examined in this study have exhibited either an overall mass gain or been relative unchanged.
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Regardless of potential climatic changes, our results indicate that the glacier in Kemp and Mac Robertson Land and along Ingrid Christensen Coast, have accumulated mass during the past 85 years which inevitably have mitigated parts of the more recent mass loss from the marine basins in East Antarctica and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). This positive accumulation trend and positive mass balance is anticipated to persist as snowfall is expected to increase over the entire EAIS in the next century54,55, and ice sheet modeling studies project positive mass balance estimates in all three sub-regions across all future RCP scenarios56. Lastly, we determine frontal changes of 21 glaciers from 1937 to 2023 (Table S1 and Fig. S11). From the 85 years of observations, we find two distinct regional patterns; one of constant glacier surface elevations and one of ice thickening.