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Posted on 04/22/2009 3:03:43 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
According to the University of Illinois (and my wife has a B.S. and M.S. from the Univ. of Illinois at Champaign and she’s pretty smart, so I’d believe them) Antarctic sea ice is nearly 1,000,000 square kilometers above the 1979-2000 normal. That means that the excess sea ice would cover an area about the size of Michigan and California combined!
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO - Antarctic sea ice has grown at the rate of over 4% per decade over the past 30 years and reached an all-time maximum in 2008.
You haven’t heard this reported in the mainstream press. What they have reported is the ice breaking off the Wikins ice shelf - which would represent about one pixel on the map here. Calving of ice off the shelf is a common and natural occurrence.
Meanwhile in the Arctic - the icecap has grown more in the past 16 months than in any 16-month period on record. See this graph which shows the Arctic icecap decreasing steadily from 1979 to Sept. 2007, and then increasing at a relatively rapid rate since Sept. 2007. This is the similar graph of Antarctic ice, which has been increasing slowly since about 1986. Barrow, Alaska has averaged -5.6 deg. for April and this will be their 3rd consecutive month with temperatures below average. Anchorage, Alaska has had below average temperatures for each of the last 12 months.
Nome, Alaska is 8 deg. colder than average for April and they still have 52″ of snow on the ground!
Whittier, Alaska still has 81″ of snow on the ground. Note the ice in the Bering Sea.
At the town of Alert in northern Canada, the average temp. this month has been -19.5F. Alert made it to +6 on Tuesday. That was the warmest temperature since last Oct. 10. The last time the temperature was above freezing in Alert was last Sept. 3.
On the other side of the North Pole, Oymyakon in Siberia hasn’t been above 40F since last September and Verkoyansk finally made it to 40F on Sunday for the first time since Oct. 3. Here’s recent ice trends in the Chukchi Sea.
The Arctic icecap is still about 500,000 km. below the 1979-2000 average, but that number has been shrinking in the last 16 months - certainly not a long enough time to establish a trend, but this should be taken as good news from all sides of the climate issue. If you take the 1,000,000 km. of excess ice at the South Pole and subtract the 500,000 km. of excess open water (below average ice) at the North Pole - you get 500,000 km. ABOVE the historical average! You could fit both Michigan and Al Gore’s home state of Tennessee into that area of excess surface ice! Please take a moment and read more HERE.
Ping of interest.
Take that Algore!!!!
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If it is above normal now, then it will probably go back down to normal sometime. Watch the current deniers glee when it goes down, allegedly proving their claims, even though it would mean bad news for them and us if their claims were at all credible. Their glee at the coming decline to normal will belie their real committment.
Steffen should make a movie and call it An Inconvenient Al.
There is nothing, save a shift of the axis of Earth, that will melt all the ice on either pole. Or even a good portion of it.
That much, I know. I also know I’m really tired of Glob Al and his Hot Air Doomsday fear-mongering. Maybe BHO can use him in some post or other to accelerate the demise of Liberals...
Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
By Greg Roberts
18 Apr 09 - “Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.”
See Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
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.Antarctic sea ice up 4.7% since 1980 - where is the media?
5 Apr 09 – Yes, you read that right. The amount of sea ice around Antarctic has increased 4.7% since 1980. Yet all we hear about are the comparatively tiny areas where the ice is melting. Where is the media? See
Antarctic sea ice up 4.7% since 1980
Arctic Sea-Ice Extent:
Updated Daily
7 Apr 09 – Here’s a website that shows the daily extent of
Arctic Sea Ice from 2002 until the present.
See Arctic Sea-Ice Extent:
Updated Daily
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Oops. We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice
19 Feb 09 – Today, the National Snow and Ice
Data Center (NSIDC) admitted that they’ve underreported Arctic ice extent by 193,000 square miles (500,000 sq km). That’s the size of 10 states!
See We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice
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Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
Scandinavian nation reverses trend, mirrors
results in Alaska, elsewhere, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.
See Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
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Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
Arctic ice cover above it’s 30-year average
23 Nov 08 - A study published by the American Meteorological Society found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further
west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are “thickening and expanding”.
See Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
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New Study Finds Greenland Ice Melt ‘not changing’ or ‘dropping’
3 Jul 08 - A new Dutch study of 17 years of satellite measurements of ice movement in western Greenland concludes that the speedup of the ice is a transient summertime phenomenon.
See New Study Finds Greenland Ice Melt ‘not changing’ or ‘dropping
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Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain
17 Nov 08 – The ice-covered peak of Yukon’s soaring Mount Logan may be due for an official re-measurement after readings that suggest this country’s superlative summit has experienced a growth spurt.
See Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain
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Arctic Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Rate in Recorded History
7 Nov 08 - An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. The total amount of ice, which set a record low last year, grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979.
See Arctic Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Rate in Recorded History
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http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm
just a small sample, much more at link.
Ahh, well..., Ahh, you see it’s all of this CO2 throwing off our measurements and invalidating our precise software models which shows the absolute need for a 1000% increase in Utility bills.
I have THE ANSWER--and it is NOT 42!
From a linked story in a reply to the WOODTV blog article above, Why Antarctic ice is growing despite global warming, I have discovered THE SOLUTION!
ADD FREON TO THE EARTH'S AIR CONDITIONER, ANTARCTICA!
I Googled this: cogitator Antarctic "sea ice"
Guess what the top result was? A post to you from September 2007!!!
A New Record for Antarctic Total Ice Extent? (see post 37)
Here's a press release about the other one:
Warmer Air May Cause Increased Antarctic Sea Ice Cover
-actual moonbat quote, when the expedition they had planned to WALK to the south pole was cancelled due to extreme cold.
Both studies result from one model adjustment designed as much as anything to explain the the difference in melting rates; by introducing the thermohaline localization argument the studies leave open the argument that those same influences remain poorly observed and measured and deserve a place at the table.
So many unincluded variables, so little time...
We’re going to need a really hot summer to get the already wallet-thin taxpayers in line for massive energy price spikes and shortages sure to result from cap and trade or draconian limits on fuel use generally.
Let’s face it, the time for study has run out — the battle is on and let the Devil take the hindmost.
Thanks.
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