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The January 2018 Fram Strait Cyclones

January 13, 2018Uncategorized, WavesAvalanche, Cyclone, Fram Strait, Greenland, Longyearbyen, Sentinel, Svalbard, TemperatureJim Hunt

We’ve covered similar events in the recent past, but this one looks like it will take the proverbial biscuit.

Here’s the 6 hour wave forecast for the Fram Strait from 12:00 UTC this afternoon:

Is the Son of Storm Frank Heading for the Arctic?

January 14, 2016UncategorizedAlex 2016, ECMWF, Storm Frank, Surf, UKMOJim Hunt

Strange things are happening in the North Atlantic at the moment. It’s the middle of January, and currently Hurricane Alex is heading straight for Greenland:

By the time he gets there Alex is due to meet another strong storm already spinning north of Newfoundland:

IPSO Powerless to Prevent The Great White Con

April 5, 2015UncategorizedBob Ward, Daily Mail, Dana Nuccitelli, David Rose, Extent, IPSO, Judith CurryJim Hunt

In a blog post earlier this year entitled “IPSO, the press regulator created in the aftermath of the Leveson Inquiry, is not up to task” Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the Grantham Research Institute, made a prophetic statement:

The House of Lords Responds to a Changing Arctic

February 27, 2015UncategorizedAndrew Shepherd, Christopher Booker, David Rose, Extent, Greenland, Robin Teverson, TemperatureJim Hunt

The United Kingdom’s House of Lords are an unlikely bunch to be bundled under the banner of “alarmist” or even “warmist”. Nevertheless their Select Committee on the Arctic has just published a report entitled “Responding to a Changing Arctic“, and in this video the chairman of that committee, Lord Teverson, briefly outlines their findings:

BBC Radio 4 Swallows Booker’s Bait

February 23, 2015UncategorizedBBC, Christopher Booker, Dana Rohrabacher, David Glenday, Ed Miliband, John Prescott, TelegraphJim Hunt

Here’s a prescient recent “Tweet” of mine to United States Representative Dana Rohrabacher:

Haven't you seen the videos @DanaRohrabacher? Ever thought of penning an op-ed in a UK broadsheet? http://t.co/MYQIN7Vqem CC @caerbannog666

— Jim Hunt (@jim_hunt) February 20, 2015

Is The Economist Being “Economical with the Truth” About Arctic Sea Ice?

January 31, 2015UncategorizedASIF, Economist, Gavin Schmidt, GISS, IPSO, NASA, NSRJim Hunt

I was idly scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning when I couldn’t help but notice that Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was calling for volunteers to research possible trends in The Economist’s attitude to “climate change” over recent decades: