Monthly Archives: September 2010

It appears almost certain that GISS will declare 2010 to be the hottest year ever.

Sea ice data from UIUC shows that there has been no change in date of the Antarctic minimum, the date of the maximum, or the length of the Antarctic winter/summer.

My traffic was way up overnight. Turns out a web forum in Germany has attracted lots of people who don’t understand the difference between glacial ice and sea ice. Is it a language problem or just plain AGW Dummheit?

It appears that the JAXA extent graph has bottomed out. If so, the melt season (date of the minimum minus the date of the maximum) in 2010 was the shortest in their eight year record, at 163 days. The previous … Continue reading →

The blink comparator shows changes in the ice near the North Pole at 87.5N 168.0E over the last four days. As you can see, all of the open water has frozen over. This causes area measurements to increase.

We can’t definitively link today’s heavy rain at Flushing Meadows with climate change, but we do expect more postponement of tennis tournament finals in the future – as atmospheric CO2 increases.

Following up on some work done by Roger Pielke Sr., I downloaded the UIUC Arctic data set and calculated the length of the melt season (date of minimum area minus date of maximum area) for each year of the satellite … Continue reading →

New ice is forming around the iceberg which broke off the Petermann Glacier last month. The entire region is also covered with fresh snow. Temperatures in the region are running below -5ºC.

Santa’s Workshop is looking cold and dark After a month of above normal temperatures, the weather has turned cold in the high Arctic again. Temperatures north of 80N have dropped to about -5ºC, which is near normal.

I’m betting on Spain to continue their unprecedented dominance of international sport this afternoon.