Facts About the Arctic in March 2023
We’ll come on to the Arctic in a moment, but at more temperate latitudes I am proud to announce that my Cornish alter ego has been officially outed as an “environmental campaigner” by the BBC. Moving pictures of yours truly,…
The 2023 Maximum Arctic Sea Ice Extent
March has arrived, so it’s time to start taking a serious look at where and when the 2023 maximum Arctic sea ice extent will occur. To start with here’s Zack Labe’s overview of previous years’ maxima: Zack’s graph displays the…
New Record Antarctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent
I should of course add “in the satellite era”, but the title is pretty unwieldy as it is! I was up early (UTC) to check the latest JAXA data, and sure enough that confirmed a new record minimum Antarctic sea…
Facts About the Arctic in February 2023
A new month has arrived, and during January several Arctic sea ice metrics have been drifting towards the bottom of their respective decadal ranges. To begin with here is AWI’s high resolution AMSR2 extent graph, which is currently very close…
Facts About the Arctic in January 2023
At the beginning of the New Year all the central regions of the Arctic are now refrozen apart from a small area of the Kara Sea: Most Arctic sea ice metrics are near the middle of their respective ranges over…
Facts About the Arctic in December 2022
A new month is upon us and Christmas is coming! Here’s another look at Lars Kaleschke’s high resolution AMSR2 area and extent graphs for the Arctic as a whole: Extent increase stalled for the last few days of November, and…
Facts About the Arctic in November 2022
A change is allegedly as good as a rest, so here’s an alternative view of high resolution AMSR2 area and extent created using the experimental tools provided by the AWI’s Lars Kaleschke at: https://sites.google.com/view/sea-ice/ After a brief pause mid-month the…
The Primacy of Doubt
Recently Judith Curry published a series of articles on the topic of blackouts. Since attempting to prevent such things is my “professional” speciality I’ve spent a bit of time over at “Climate Etc.” recently. Hence I couldn’t help but notice…
Rewriting The Arctic
Peter, a welcome new denizen here at the Great White Con Ivory Towers, appears to have parachuted into our far north summer hideaway on the shores of Santa’s Secret Summer Swimming Pool straight from Tony Heller‘s Unreal Climate Science blog….
Facts About the Arctic in October 2022
The 2022/23 freezing season has begun, so to begin with here are Arctic sea ice area and extent during its early stages: Both metrics are currently tracking 2021 quite closely. Here too is an AMSR2 animation of the transition from…