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Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight
For the third month running low pressure was dominant over the Central Arctic Basin during August: greatwhitecon.info/2026/09/fact... Temperatures at the 925 hPa pressure level were anomalously high across most of the Arctic, particularly over the Kara Sea and Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
New record retreat of the Jakobshavn Glacier in West Greenland: greatwhitecon.info/2026/07/new-... Animation via Espen Olsen at the Arctic Sea Ice Forum Cc: @peterwsinclair.bsky.social @ruthmottram.eurosky.social
'This would have been a wild dream a year ago': meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic - Sea ice is melting fast, worsening the #climatecrisis, but a bold attempt to rethicken it is showing early signs of success #geoengineering Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘At first, the idea does sound crazy’: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic
Sea ice is melting fast, worsening the climate crisis, but a bold attempt to rethicken it is showing early signs of success
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Here's a “false colour” image of the swirl of cloud caused by a cyclone over the central #Arctic this morning. The choice of frequencies in the visualisation makes it easier to distinguish clouds from snow and ice. More at: greatwhitecon.info/2026/06/fact...
Here is our mid February update on Arctic sea ice thickness and volume, based on the Alfred Wegener Institute’s merged CryoSat-2/Sentinel 3/SMOS gridded sea ice thickness data: greatwhitecon.info/2026/02/fact... 1/
"Thousands of federal data sets have vanished without warning, including many key to climate research. One day last May, @noaa.gov announced that the Sea Ice Index, a nearly half-century-long archive kept by one of its centers, would no longer be maintained or updated." 👇 #SeaIce
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 8mo agoThe U.S. has slashed Arctic climate science, despite taking a greater geopolitical interest in the region, Brett Simpson reports—a move that will limit how clearly the U.S. can understand a place that is key to the world’s future:
“A complete total assault on all our environmental progress.” At the Munich Security Conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov did not hold back when speaking to #WeDontHaveTime about Donald Trump’s latest attack on science. Share this interview if you agree.
ERA5 data for January 2026 has still not made it over to @noaa.gov's "Web-based Reanalyses Intercomparison Tools". Rather belatedly here is our @nsidc.bsky.social #Arctic sea ice news replacement service, reverting to the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis: greatwhitecon.info/2026/02/fact...
Thanks Jake. "Returning the Rule of Law to EPA Regulations. Creating Policy Rooted in Reality! Restoring the American Dream!! Prioritizing Consumer Choice!!!" "Major Supreme Court decisions in the intervening years... have significantly clarified the scope of EPA’s authority under the CAA" 1/
Who is suing to protect the Endangerment Finding? Cause I've still got 2026 money to donate.
📣 New research by Rachel Tilling examines how different satellites track Arctic sea ice 'leads' and 'floes'. This is crucial for understanding how sea ice is changing seasonally and over the longer-term. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Lead and Floe Detection From CryoSat‐2 Radar and ICESat‐2 Laser Altimetry
The CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 satellite altimeters provide invaluable data for resolving small-scale sea ice features across the Arctic Because CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 differ in their geometric and r...
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Two different varieties of Arctic sea ice thickness, and hence volume, at the end of January 2026. Compare and contrast the PIOMAS "model" versus satellite "measurements": greatwhitecon.info/2026/02/fact...
Here's the latest instalment in the #Climategate3 scandal 👇 www.edf.org/media/newly-... "The records reveal brazenly unlawful actions behind the creation of a report that underlies the administration’s attack on the Endangerment Finding – including evidence of at least 18 meetings held in secret."
Newly Disclosed Records Show Trump Administration’s Unlawful Actions Related to Secretly Formed “Climate Working Group”
The records are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by EDF and the Union of Concerned Scientists as as the result of a lawsuit.
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Speaking of NCA6, See also: bsky.app/profile/jim-...
Jim Hunt@jim-hunt.bsky.social · 9mo agoMy article on the (potential!) 6th edition of the US National Climate Assessment 👇 greatwhitecon.info/2026/01/the-... "It is already clear that @katharinehayhoe.com, @hausfath.bsky.social and the other scientists who produced #NCA5 will not be invited by the Trump administration to write #NCA6"
A very interesting addendum to my article on the evisceration of NCAR and the (potential!) MAGA flavoured Sixth US National Climate Assessment 👇 greatwhitecon.info/2026/01/the-...
The Sixth US National Climate Assessment | The Great White Con
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Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 9mo agoDig down here to read a large collection of emails between DOE and the five authors of the contrarian 'climate working group' report. Very interesting...
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
A pretty unambiguous top line judgement in the UK's "National security assessment on global ecosystems" report, released today: "Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high. Time to speed up action, then? www.gov.uk/government/p...
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
gov.uk
Fairly exciting weather today, hurricane force winds + blizzard. The neighbours* have been on the radio offering an Antarctic film festival this evening if we can get out the door.. * Finland. The Finnish station Aboa is about a hundred metres away on the same nunatak as Wasa #iQ2300 #Antarctica
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk
Maritime identity fraud in the Arctic: An oil tanker with false IMO number is on the way along the Norwegian coast en route to Murmansk www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/tanker-...
My article on the (potential!) 6th edition of the US National Climate Assessment 👇 greatwhitecon.info/2026/01/the-... "It is already clear that @katharinehayhoe.com, @hausfath.bsky.social and the other scientists who produced #NCA5 will not be invited by the Trump administration to write #NCA6"
My Arctic alter ego has been experimenting with deepfake images of fantasy emperors: bsky.app/profile/grea... Would you like to see the "undressed" version @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social?
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Snow White@greatwhitecon.info · 9mo agoSince AI imagery is in the news at the moment, here's one I prepared earlier, with the assistance of ImageFX rather than #Grok
New preprint: Ludwig, V.,et al.: Biases, Uncertainties, and Trends in Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness: A Cross-Product Analysis from 1995 to 2023, EGUsphere [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/egus..., 2026.
Biases, Uncertainties, and Trends in Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness: A Cross-Product Analysis from 1995 to 2023
Abstract. Sea-ice thickness is a key component of the Arctic climate system, but yet a comprehensive assessment across observations and numerical models is still missing. Previous studies have either ...
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The Democrats have made their next move in the ongoing 19 dimensional chess game over #Greenland greatwhitecon.info/2025/12/the-... In response to Rep. Fine’s opening gambit, Congressman @gomez.house.gov (CA-34) announced today that he had "Introduced the Greenland Sovereignty Protection Act" 1/n
The US National Security Strategy 2025 | The Great White Con
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Here's the latest move in the Trump administration's game of 19 dimensional chess, with #Greenland the prize to be awarded to the winner: greatwhitecon.info/2025/12/the-... "Congressman Randy Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act..." 1/n
The US National Security Strategy 2025 | The Great White Con
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NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
DOE sees bigger role for climate contrarians, records show
A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.
eenews.net
Due to Trump administration funding cuts @nsidc.bsky.social is no longer providing this sort of information on a monthly basis. Hence here are the ERA5 MSLP and 925 hPa air temperature anomaly maps of the #Arctic for December 2025: greatwhitecon.info/2026/-01/fac...
