Daily Archives: March 18, 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12784675  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ How right they are! This picture was taken in Scotland today. http://www.cairngormmountain.com/webcam/ptarmiganCamLarge.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/    

[Update] Well I guess it isn’t in the South Pacific. It is actually up in the North Pacific – like Alaska. Wikipedia has moved Australia to the North Pacific. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Atoll

http://solveclimatenews.com/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html    

Sea level there stopped rising in 1960. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=2695540

NOAA tide gauges averaged over all of the islands they measure, show less than five inches per century sea level rise. All are below the claimed altimetry rise rates. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_states.shtml?region=wm Let’s hold an underwater cabinet meeting to extract money from … Continue reading →

I averaged the sea level change rates for all NOAA global tide gauges with data in the current century, and the average rate is +0.47 mm/year – which is 1.85 inches per century. Far below the IPCC forecasts. Spreadsheet is … Continue reading →

NSIDC shows that Northern Hemisphere ice extent is about 1,000,000 km^2 below the 1979-2000 mean. Is this an Arctic death spiral? Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards. You can also see from … Continue reading →

The animation above shows March 17 US Navy PIPS 2 ice, greater than 2.5 metres thick  – since 2008. Looks like a recovery to me. http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/archive/index.html?filetype=Thickness

STORY OF THE VOYAGE, OBSERVATIONS AT THE POLE. NOME, May 16. Lieutenant Hjalmar Larsen, the Nor-wegian second pilot of the Norge, on being interviewed, said thin ice and open water were found at the North Pole http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/46512872 h/t to Ivan