Snow White
Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight
- FYI @nsidc.bsky.social @seaice.de @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @skepticalscience.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org 👇
- The West Devon Free Press's intrepid part time paparazzo was taking her dog for a walk around Roadford Lake when she suddenly spotted Donald Duck practising his Ig Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech 👇 Cc: @watershed-i.bsky.social @skentelbery.bsky.social #Satire is not (yet) dead? #ArtAI 1/n
- Reposted by Snow White12 May 2020. Similar to what we recently saw with the M7.9 earthquake, this happens more frequently with sea ice. 🌊🧪⚒️
- Good morning @therealpotholer54.bsky.social (BST), Are you already aware that the team behind #ClimateTheMovie are taking @briancoxtalks.bsky.social's image in vain in their most recent contender for the Ig Nobel Prize in climate science? greatwhitecon.info/2025/05/the-... #TheGraphThatLied
- You may have noticed that Elmo and The Don are doing their utmost to decimate #climate science? Earlier today my “professional” alter ego launched an “anti anti climate science” campaign over on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/soulsu... Cc: @nsidc.bsky.social @climate.noaa.gov 1/n
- Unfortunately for Tom Nelson, Martin Durkin and the CO2 Coalition, the internet keeps receipts of airbrushing: greatwhitecon.info/2025/05/pete... #ClimateBrawl #ClimateTheMovie Cc: @therealpotholer54.bsky.social @skepticalscience.bsky.social @geraldkutney.bsky.social @thedisproof.bsky.social
- Reposted by Snow WhiteEarlier today I was trying to look up something from a workshop I participated in last fall related to climate services, but sadly (no surprise)... www.noaa.gov/climate-conn...
- It seems The Don's climate cuts are going to adversely affect my own work: greatwhitecon.info/2025/05/trum... "If you are a resident of the US you may also wish to contact your local friendly neighbourhood politician(s) about the matter?" #Arctic #SeaIce #SII Cc @nsidc.bsky.social @zacklabe.com
- Reposted by Snow WhiteYou might have spotted oval symbols on sea ice charts. They’re not Easter eggs 🐣 — but they 𝘥𝘰 contain something inside: a compact summary of ice concentration, thickness, and floe size.
- Reposted by Snow WhiteNeed I say more? bsky.app/profile/grea...
- I bring you some shocking news from the top of the world: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... According to the 06Z GFS model run, surface temperatures at the North Pole will rise above the freezing point of fresh water later today. #Arctic #SeaIce extent has already fallen significantly. 🧵👇
- Here's the January 31st 2025 comparison between PIOMAS and CryoSat-2/SMOS #Arctic sea ice thickness and volume data: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... On January 31st PIOMAS Arctic sea ice volume had reached 17.11 thousand km³, still 2nd lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record.
- Has anybody ever previously surfed the north shore of Spitsbergen in the dark? greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... Do @redbull.com have access to choppers with searchlights? Here's the nowcast 👇 #GWCABBWSC #Arctic big wave #surfing Cc: @seaice.de
- Hear, hear Lars!
- Welcome @esaearth.esa.int! What about your great satellite accounts? Will they join in too? Missing Cryosat-2, SMOS and more.
- The waiting period for the 2025 Great White Con #Arctic Basin Big Wave #Surfing Contest has begun. On Saturday afternoon the temperature at the North Pole was above the freezing point of water, and there were 7 meter waves in the Fram Strait. My West Devon alter ego was starting to get paddle fit!
- This year's first #GWCABBWSC cold water #surfing equipment test began sufficiently long after low tide for the waves to have cleaned up more than somewhat. I was determined to paddle out beyond the still messily breaking waves, but this "frothy one" presented itself! @carvemag.bsky.social 4/n
- I bring you some shocking news from the top of the world: greatwhitecon.info/2025/02/fact... According to the 06Z GFS model run, surface temperatures at the North Pole will rise above the freezing point of fresh water later today. #Arctic #SeaIce extent has already fallen significantly. 🧵👇
- GFS has been forecasting warm and windy weather in the Central #Arctic this weekend. Including temperatures around zero Celsius at the North Pole on Sunday: greatwhitecon.info/2025/01/fact... It remains to be seen whether this forecast verifies!
- At a remarkably late date, Hudson Bay is now (almost!) covered in #SeaIce: greatwhitecon.info/2025/01/fact... Amongst the other peripheral seas, extent in the Sea of Okhotsk is also currently lowest for the date in the #AMSR2 record. Baffin Bay and #JAXA pan #Arctic extent are both 2nd lowest.
- Reposted by Snow WhiteOn this day five years ago we boarded the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn for the MOSAiC Arctic expedition (leg 3) not knowing what was to come.
- Reposted by Snow WhiteJust a BlueSky Friday-Fun-Fact. This is exactly how dark the blue sky is at mid-day, mid-winter in the polar night (three degres north of the Polar Circle) 💙
- Reposted by Snow White🧵 Our annual NOAA Arctic Report Card is available today for 2024. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts. ⚒️🧪🌊❄️ + Report: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... + Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yqG... + Summary: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
- All of a sudden #Arctic #SeaIce extent is lowest for the date in the 46 year #JAXA record: greatwhitecon.info/2024/12/fact...
- Reposted by Snow White📣Thrilled to share that the first paper of my PhD has been published! We use CryoSat-2 to map sea ice leads and floes in the notoriously-challenging Northwest Passage🛰️ 🧵 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/107...
- Reposted by Snow WhiteIn honour of #Antarctica day (and my first ever post on here) I'm sharing one of my favourite #photos of this truly amazing place taken during the summer #sea #ice minima last year. In this image, three resting seals are dwarfed by a capsized iceberg in the Bellingshausen Sea. #photography
- Reposted by Snow White🥳🎉 for the 👌 Sentinel1-C 🛰️ launch. This animation highlights again the key insights #sentinel1 provides for ❄️+🧊+🌎 ; here nicely illustrating the decay of Pine Island Glaciers' shear zones.
- Reposted by Snow WhiteThanks for the shout out @lewan.bsky.social, which Snow and I have only just discovered thanks to the tagging discrepancy Now I cannot help but wonder if Mr. Rose is being recursively furious here on Bluesky? I will now go and see how many of the usual suspects I can spot! Cc: @greatwhitecon.info
- #RecursiveFury @jim_hunt Nice summary with reference to video greatwhitecon.info/2014/03/recursive-f… taken longer than i thought but Soviet Union here now
- It seems gentle humour isn't sufficient to engage the interest of the metropolitan Marples, so let's take a different tack to bring Team Poirot up to full strength. Cc: @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @gavinesler.bsky.social @adamvaughan.bsky.social #KasiaTurajczykArt 8/n
- Reposted by Snow White#RecursiveFury @jim_hunt Nice summary with reference to video greatwhitecon.info/2014/03/recursive-f… taken longer than i thought but Soviet Union here now
- Reposted by Snow White🌊That’s a very rare and important paper about finding and fixing a (sea ice related) bug in a climate model. We need more papers like this so the community can learn from mistakes. 🌊🧪
- New class of model bugs detected: resolution-dependent bugs emerge as we transition to kilometer-scale climate models, revealing issues hidden in lower resolutions. Preprint available, thanks to work in the EU projects nextGEMS and @eerie-project.bsky.social. doi.org/10.5194/egus...
- Reposted by Snow WhiteThe 20th translation is the one into French, created by Robert Leven. The initial publication had been been organised by @lewan.bsky.social, @johnfocook.bsky.social, @ulliecker.bsky.social and many others following a conseus process outlined here: skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunki...
- Reposted by Snow WhiteA timeline of monthly temperature change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2023... [*Click to open*] Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... (ECMWF ERA5 data)
- The #Arctic #SeaIce refreeze has slowed down over the last few days, and the #JAXA / ViSHOP extent metric is now second lowest for the date in their record that goes back to 1978: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...
- The mid month #PIOMAS gridded thickness data has just been released: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact... On November 15th #Arctic #SeaIce volume was 8.23 thousand km³, 4th lowest for the date in the PIOMAS record:
- Reposted by Snow WhiteThose of you interested in new climate change related research, be sure to check @skepticalscience.bsky.social weekly compilations of new research papers. skepticalscience.com/new_research... #climatechange #climate #science
- Reposted by Snow WhiteOur latest #ClimateChangeResearch roundup includes 121 articles published in 49 journals and authored by some 726 cooperating researchers. If this is a helpful comipilation for you, be on the lookout for the latest edition each week on Thursday! skepticalscience.com/new_research...
- Here's our mid month update on #CryoSat2/#SMOS merged #Arctic #SeaIce thickness and volume: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...
- #Arctic #SeaIce has started forming at Nome on the west coast of #Alaska: greatwhitecon.info/2024/11/fact...
