Comments on: Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves

By: Arctic Driftwood Re-Visited « Climate Audit

Arctic Driftwood Re-Visited « Climate Audit — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:30:46 +0000

[...] form in Dyke et al (1997), which was discussed at length in a Climate Audit post in 2007 here and here. Funder et al cite Dyke et al 1997 on multiple occasions and use its information in their analysis, [...]

By: Ward Hunt Island: Unprecedented since 2005 « Climate Audit

Ward Hunt Island: Unprecedented since 2005 « Climate Audit — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:15:43 +0000

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By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:12:21 +0000

Ellesmere island’s ice shelf is the huges thing on Earth!!! I actualy went there and it was huge!!!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:10:55 +0000

Ellesmere island ice shelf has 10,000 people fooled!!

By: bender

bender — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:48:36 +0000

#51/52 That seems to be a relevant observation. I wonder how that squares up with the primary literature. I won’t comment just yet about the role of time lagged responses. Too much confusion over OHC. I’m too likely to get myself in trouble making unsupportable/incorrect statements.

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:55:17 +0000

Re: bender (#50) I don't know the answer. But you can look up Bond Events (spam filter eats the links). In any case, I think the data and the age of the ice shelves collapsing suggests that the claims of an artic ice tipping point are likely over stated.

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:35:17 +0000

Re: bender (#50) It it was a rhetorical question. I can only guess. But the data is telling me that breakups of the artic ice cap have occurred naturally in the recent past so I don't find the 'tipping point' argument to be very compelling. The quasi periodic nature has been noted by others.

By: bender

bender — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:31:58 +0000

Raven, you are correct that that comment #46 was mistaken by couple thousand years. Do you want me to guess? Do you know the answer? If it’s Greenland is it geothermal related? I think I know where you’re going with this, and that’s cool with me.

By: Dennis Wingo

Dennis Wingo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:29:36 +0000

Folks

I hope that this is not too far off topic but here goes. There is precious little data around from the early NASA remote sensing spacecraft (Nimbus) I am working on a project to digitize Lunar Orbiter Images and have recently found out that the early Nimbus data was archived on the same type of machines (Ampex FR-900 series). Does anyone know if this data still exists? If it does, we can digitize it now with the working machines that we have just brought back into service. This would help take polar data back into the 1960′s. If anyone knows anything about this please contact me at:

wingod at Earthlink dot net

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:22:05 +0000

Re: bender (#46),

The Holocene thermal optimum.

Actually, no. That was more that 5000 years ago. Here is a temperature plot from the ice cores:
(source http://mclean.ch/climate/Eye_opening.htm)
Any ideas on what caused those temperature spikes?