Category Archives: sea ice

Antarctica sets new record for sea ice

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Harold Ambler

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica, which, as I reported in “Don’t Sell Your Coat,” has been steadily increasing throughout the period of satellite measurement that began in 1979, has hit a new all-time record high for areal coverage. Continue reading →

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Cue the Emperor of the North

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Harold Ambler

I’m falling in love with the cove. Part of that is recognizing that, at least at present, I’m better off walking than running. I’m capable of the 2-mile jog past the water that I did last year forty or fifty … Continue reading →

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This Is What’s Happening

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Harold Ambler

This is what’s happening: Global sea ice just had its best year, basically a full calendar year with a zero-anomaly, since 2004. Scientists told us that global warming was accelerating at the poles, through the polar amplification process. Part of … Continue reading →

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Did a 2006 Arctic “Heat Wave” Largely Cause 2007’s Sea Ice Melt?

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Harold Ambler

In terms of the mechanisms restricting ice melt this season, to the extent that they have anything to do with air temperature, a cool Arctic above 80N basically means an absence of overrunning air from southern latitudes. Pretty much every temp spike up there is simply a wind spike — from the south. While warm sea water incursions probably matter significantly more than air temps when it comes to sea ice melt, air temps do for sure matter, too. As an example, maybe the best example: I don’t believe that 2007’s then-record melt could have taken place without a prolonged high-Arctic warming, wind-generated without doubt, during the first months of 2006.

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What’s Going On Up There?

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Harold Ambler

When it was initially apparent that a period of mild cooling was taking place in the high Arctic one month ago, I decided to reach out to Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. I wanted him … Continue reading →

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Unprecedented Melt? Not Exactly. Unprecedented Scientific Folly? You bet!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Harold Ambler

As many of my readers know, the fact that Antarctic sea ice has steadily grown during the entire satellite record is something that I’ve alluded to frequently in the past. Some of you will know, too, that the temperature at … Continue reading →

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Richard Muller has absolutely no idea what it is to be a climate skeptic

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Harold Ambler

Richard Muller has no freaking idea what it is to be a climate skeptic. When you’re an actual climate skeptic the following things are true: Your career becomes less successful, rather than more The New York Times does not publish … Continue reading →

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Clinton’s Trip to Arctic Deconstructed

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Harold Ambler

If you’re a busy politician and you want to sound green, what’s better than a quick trip to a polar ice cap? Nothing! Unfortunately, sounding green and understanding the environment and Earth’s paleoclimate are wildly different things, it turns out. … Continue reading →

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UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Harold Ambler

Things get stranger and stranger with the United Nations’ climate change science compendium published two weeks back. First, it was learned that the graph indicating temperature for the past 1,000 years had been taken from Wikipedia, where it had been … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to a Legal Scholar Specializing in Climate Change

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Harold Ambler

The following is my response to an open letter published by the legal scholar Dan Farber on his blog. Farber’s letter says that global warming “denialists” are about as right as Neville Chamberlain was returning from Munich in 1938 and … Continue reading →

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