Meanwhile ......

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/30/20-years-later-the-hockey-stick-graph-behind-waves-of-climate-alarmism-is-still-in-dispute/

"The Canadians’ 2003 study showed the “hockey stick” curve “is primarily an artifact of poor data handling, obsolete data and incorrect calculation of principal components.” When the data was corrected it showed a warm period in the 15th century that exceeds the warmth of the 20th century.

McIntyre and McKitrick also published a study on Mann’s “hockey stick” graph in 2005.

However, Mann wrote that “dozens of groups of scientists” had validated his 1998 study. Mann specifically pointed to a 2006 U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report that “affirmed our findings in an exhaustive independent review published in June 2006.”

Even McIntyre said subsequent studies have “produced somewhat hockey-stick-ish temperature reconstructions,” but added, “none (NONE) of our specific criticisms of Mann’s methods, proxies, and false claims has been rebutted.” "

The publicity panic over the Thwaites Glacier does confirm that the publicity panic over Polar Bears is dead, because the Polar Bears are not dead.

Ice experts will be relieved that they can make mistakes in Antarctica without meeting hungry polar bears, but if they have been trusting Polar Bear experts to supply them with reliable information about Polar Bears, how can they be sure?

CFCs, Co2, AGW, CC, PM25, PM10, NOx, ICEs, FF - and now, I give you, the latest scare, Thwaites! (no, not the dumper-truck makers) A monster ice cube breaking away from Antarctica that's about to flood the globe (well, in a couple of hundred years if you read the small print - that the BBC hardly mention). They just have to keep up the scare.

"Thwaites Glacier: Biggest ever Antarctic field campaign":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43936372

"It is going to be one of the biggest projects ever undertaken in Antarctica.

UK and US scientists will lead a five-year effort to examine the stability of the mighty Thwaites Glacier.

This ice stream in the west of the continent is comparable in size to Britain. It is melting and is currently in rapid retreat, accounting for around 4% of global sea-level rise - an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.

Researchers want to know if Thwaites could collapse.

Were it to do so, its lost ice would push up the oceans by 80cm or more.

Some computer models have suggested such an outcome is inevitable if conditions continue as they are - albeit on a timescale of centuries. But these simulations need to be anchored in many more real-world observations, which will now be acquired thanks to the joint initiative announced on Monday."

"Thwaites is clearly on the verge of an irreversible retreat, but to be sure we need 10 years more data," he [Prof. David Vaughan] told BBC News."

"The UK's Natural Environment Research Council and the US National Science Foundation are going to deploy about 100 scientists to Thwaites on a series of expeditions.

The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) is the two nations' biggest cooperative venture on the White Continent for more than 70 years - since the end of a mapping project on the Antarctic Peninsula in the late 1940s.

Grants for research totalling £20m have been awarded. Once the costs of transport and resupply to this remotest of regions is factored in, the total value of the ITGC will probably top £40m."

Send money!