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- Bering Sea ice is "at record low levels for this time of year" Sat, 19 May 18, 5:00amArctic sea ice is low, with the Bering Sea's ice extent "the lowest recorded since at least 1979," according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)...
- Critical climate record satellite program at risk after Congress slashes funding Tue, 7 Nov 17, 3:36amScientists all over Earth depend on sea ice data from United States military satellites. But one of those satellites recently broke down - and only three aging ones remain. Even worse, the United States Congress said a new...
- Crazy low Arctic sea ice levels will likely smash records this summer Sat, 11 Jun 16, 4:30amArctic sea ice levels continue to plummet. Researchers from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center tracking sea ice levels have found results that aren't too surprising: Arctic sea ice extent is likely to break records...
- Arctic temperatures are literally off the charts Wed, 1 Jun 16, 8:00pmEven though things are just heating up in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us have already heard about the record-breaking hot temperatures in the Arctic...
- Arctic sea ice levels hit a new winter low – again Wed, 30 Mar 16, 7:31amArctic ice levels continue to dwindle. According to data gathered by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic sea ice levels this winter were the lowest on record since we started snapping satellite images in...
- “Soul-Crushing” Cold Temperatures Sink to Record Low in East Antarctica Wed, 11 Dec 13, 3:26amA new look at NASA satellite data has revealed that the Earth set a new record low for temperature in East Antarctica. In August 2010, the mercury hit -135.8°F, a soul-crushingly low temperature that will freeze even the...
- Coldest ever temperature recorded on Earth found in Antarctica Tue, 10 Dec 13, 4:00pmPress Release: Landsat 8 helps unveil the coldest place on Earth SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists recently recorded the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record...
- “Watching the Deniers” makes hilarious goof while accusing WUWT of “doctoring” NSIDC images Mon, 8 Jul 13, 12:03pmFalse accusation that Watts “doctored” sea ice graph Erric Worrall writes: An Australian alarmist blog, Watching The Deniers, has just accused Anthony Watts of photoshopping one of the Sea Ice Graphs...
- Avaaz! Save the world from a slushy death, just £2 Mon, 24 Jun 13, 10:25pmPeople send me stuff. This is an email solicitation claiming that if you send Avaaz £2 a week (About $3.07 USD at current exchange rate) they’ll somehow be able to help NSIDC’s Julienne Stroeve get started putting...
- Sea Ice News Volume 4 #2 – The 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest Thu, 6 Jun 13, 5:01pmThe race to forecast the minimum is on again. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once again I’m inviting readers to submit their best guess,...
- Sea Ice News Volume 4 #2 The 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest Thu, 6 Jun 13, 5:01pmThe race to forecast the minimum is on again. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once again I’m inviting readers to submit their best guess,...
- Greenland ice melt overestimated due to satellite data algorithm issue Fri, 22 Mar 13, 4:12pmThis is an interesting admission: The melt extent algorithm used by Greenland Ice Sheet Today has been overestimating the melt extent, and as a result, daily images posted on this site in February and March may have indicated...
- Sea Ice News Volume 3 #15 – Arctic sea ice doubles in October Tue, 6 Nov 12, 10:21pmIn Sea Ice News #14, we noted that the Arctic refreeze was the fastest ever. According to NSIDC, Arctic sea ice extent doubled in October. Arctic rapidly gaining winter ice Ice extent doubled in October. The rate of increase...
- Tisdale: How Much of an Impact Does the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Have on Arctic Sea Ice Extent? Tue, 25 Sep 12, 2:03pmLast week I asked Bob Tisdale to take a hard look at potential correlations between the AMO and Arctic sea ice extent, and he rose to the challenge – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post presents reference graphs...
- Greenland Ice Sheet albedo drops ‘off the bottom of the chart’ – but look closer as to why Sun, 22 Jul 12, 9:40amGot this in the mail just as I posted my open thread announcemnt. I’m too busy this weekend to say much else except to post this tweet from Bill McKibben and some past blog excerpts and invite discussion. Bill McKibben...