What’s Going on in Antarctica? Is the Ice Melting or Growing?

EcoWatch ^ | November 10, 2015 | na

[ch.man]

Thank you for the link. I very much agree with Moerner when he talks about the financial incentive for small island countries to perpetuate the “sea rising” hoax.

I was in the Kiribati Islands two years ago and had a conversation with a local congressman about this. He told me bluntly that when they need money, they just invite some minister from a western nation to see a subsiding area in the island of Abaiang, moan about this terrible global warming/sea rising problem caused by the west and the visiting party would quickly open its wallet to clean their mind of any wrongdoing....

It was truly an eye opening conversation.

[GOPJ]

I was in the Kiribati Islands two years ago and had a conversation with a local congressman about this. He told me bluntly that when they need money, they just invite some minister from a western nation to see a subsiding area in the island of Abaiang, moan about this terrible global warming/sea rising problem caused by the west and the visiting party would quickly open its wallet to clean their mind of any wrongdoing.... It was truly an eye opening conversation.

We're played for fools by people all over the world... but that is an eyeopener ch.man...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

1. Antarctica is big.
2. Don’t take it as a single climate entity.
3. Often what happens on one side of big does NOT happen on the other side of big.
4. In the past, the ecoNazis will often scream that two feet of ice has melted from Antarctica.
5. What they do not tell you is that the ice loss was on the western slope. On the eastern slope, the ice has increased by three feet.
6. Ice increases need to be measured in both square mileage AND depth (volume). Another trick is that they will measure square miles and scream how Antarctica has lost X square miles of ice but will leave out how the ice that is left has increased in depth, or vice-versa.
6. Never, ever trust ecoNazis.

[logitech]

The world may never know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvFzOgK-V9E

[Migraine]

Well, we can thank God for Nils-Axel and the few like him. In 2003, as a world geography teacher (and one who added as much sanity and level-headedness to this issue as I could muster), I obtained a scientific journal article where I learned the vagaries and pitfalls of trying to measure sea level (many of them mentioned here), and was startled and enlightened to find that the satellite laser-measuring system had followed sea levels from its objective perch aloft and found that the sea level had risen 4mm in the prior decade, plus-or-minus 7mm. Like Morner said: “no trend whatsoever”.
My jaw hit the floor with a big thud. I had my answer for all the global warming alarmists from then until now: please, can you tell me how much the sea level has risen these past two decades? And, of course, they can’t. Like the article says, their fears and conjectures are not based on evidence, just requirements which fit their theories.
This is another great article to augment my point. Thanks.

[Paul R.]

Ah, that explains it. In Gore’s world, his brain boiled off the instant he was born.

[GOPJ]

...was startled and enlightened to find that the satellite laser-measuring system had followed sea levels from its objective perch aloft and found that the sea level had risen 4mm in the prior decade, plus-or-minus 7mm. Like Morner said: "no trend whatsoever". My jaw hit the floor with a big thud. I had my answer for all the global warming alarmists from then until now: please, can you tell me how much the sea level has risen these past two decades? And, of course, they can't. Like the article says, their fears and conjectures are not based on evidence, just requirements which fit their theories. This is another great article to augment my point. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing Migraine - glad you enjoyed the piece. We can fight back...

[GOPJ]

Here’s one that just plain old fashion fun:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/09/this-hilarious-short-film-mocking-social-justice-in-schools-is-going-viral/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social