Between 2020 and 2024, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained ice at an average rate of 67.5 billion metric tons per year.
Antarctica’s deep freeze is grinding on, with the continent registering 10 straight days below -100F.
The Dalton Minimum did not occur after a long gentle slide into the quiet: a very strong solar cycle, a late burst of intense activity, then two collapsed cycles. The lights just went out.
The Arctic has shifted between ice regimes for thousands of years, including an open-ocean episode around 14,000 years ago, when CO2 was just 230 ppm.
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It seems to be shaping up to be a snowy winter in Alberta. We had some aurora this morning just before sunrise. Perhaps there is a little activity left in Old Sol.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful photo!
I live in North West England and we are having rainy weather now but we did have an unusually prolonged drought over the summer which I think was exceptional – but regions experiencing drought while other regions are having unusual patterns of very heavy rain are , I understand, part of the changing weather due to a Grand Solar Minimum.
I think we are seeing significant changes in our weather globally but that they are due to GSM.
I am concerned that sometimes you try to normalise these weather changes- not considering the influence of GSM.
My son says the PTB are causing the weather disturbances, for reasons of their own.
I was not aware Antarctica lost ice mass 2000 to 2020. Losing 100 Gt/year is not a lot compared to the ice mass of the entire continent, even 20 years worth.
But I figure the years of prevailing conditions of high snowpack and ice greatly outpace the lean or negative years over the last…how long? A million years? More…less?
Canada and the northern US had miles thick ice during the last Ice Age. It melted.