For the record: Imagine what it would be without the bias.
Pictured: NWS MMTS (Maximum/Minimum Temperature Sensor) surface station (one of MANY similarly biased):
Posted on 03/01/2023 12:21:14 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
28 Feb 2023
Be aware that both the Jan 2023 and Feb 2023 Antarctic Sea Ice Extents have set new record lows for Sea Ice Extents.
Each day in January was lower than all previous years sea ice extents, and (now) February's Antarctic Sea Ice Extents have been released. They too were lower than all previous years of the satellite record period (1978-2023.)
The NCIDC Sea Ice publicists will certainly report this event.
But.
What the NSIDC and other Global Warming publicity boards will NOT mention is the ever-increasing, all time record-breaking HIGH Sea Ice trend around Antarctica from 1992 through 2015-2016. Several times in 2013 and 2014, in fact, the excess sea ice area (not sea ice extents) around Antarctica was so large that the anomaly exceeded the entire area of Greenland.
Background: Sea Ice is measured by satellites as two measurements: Sea Ice extents is the amount covered by at least 15% of the oceans surface: So isolated ice floes and drifting icebergs are registered. Sea Ice Area is that ocean area covered by at least 85% local ice. SO Sea Ice Area is always smaller than Sea Ice Extents, but is a year-to-year more consistent value. Regardless, either can be used as long as you (or the person you are talking to) are consistent. In earlier years, when satellite orbits were harder to control near the pole, Sea Ice Extents were (slightly) more accurate since the whole region around the North Pole that could not be surveyed were just assumed to be solid ice. Now, polar orbits and satellite scanning equipment is better.
Ref your “CATASTROPHIC SEA LEVEL RISE! (not affected by Sea Ice at all - but who can let a (nearby) crisis go to waste?”
Well said. When an AGW nut goes on about this, I say, you mean like when you make a glass of ice water and then get distracted before you can drink it? And you come back to find the ice has all melted? And the water has over spilled the glass and made a big puddle? The look on their faces! “But, but, the ice age!” they sputter. Well, yeah, look at at the humongous glaciers covering land. If you try to add a bunch of ice to a full glass of water, you will get a puddle. So, how many glaciers do we have now? What’s their mass?
Not that I buy into AGW or that, *if* it’s real we can stop it with electric vehicles and windmills. But the seas inundating huge areas? Nah. Crazy talk.
A lot of what appears to be caused by “rising sea levels” in many coastal areas is actually beach erosion caused by damming of rivers/draining of rivers for use by humans. Far less sand and silt to deposit — this is why barrier islands are shrinking and beaches eroding in many places. Dredging channels for shipping also affects currents and can cause scouring.
So yes, humans are causing coastal erosion, but not so much (if any) because “Global Warming!”.
I’m sure you already know all this. I guess I’m just yammering because these AGW nuts are so ... obtuse sometimes.
Two other issues rarely mentioned...
In the satellite era, 1979-2023, the average air temperature above the South Polar Region has increased by less than 0.1 C in 44 years!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/27/non-global-warming/
Also, the area of ice that has melted the most has a half dozen or more volcanic regions that cannot be closely studied because they are underneath glacial ice.
They failed to mention the THICKNESS of Antarctic has been setting records for years!
I have a question and am serious. What is the legal definition of organic food? My tomatoes and squash do not give a damn if I put turkey manure from the local turkey houses or synthetic commercial fertilizer produced from natural gas bought in a bag. All my plants care about is the nitrogen and phosphates and trace minerals in the bag or the turkeys ass. They do well on both.
The legal definition varies from country to country. In some countries, no chemical fertilizers or pesticides can have been used on the land for five years. In the US, I think it’s less. Ah, here we go, three years:
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means
You are correct about the plants not caring much about the fertilizer. But the organic crowd prefers anything “natural”. There’s the pesticide angle, too. On that one, they have a point or two.
The reason organic produce often tastes better: (1) it’s usually locally grown and fresher (no pesticides mean it doesn’t keep as long before the bugs and baddies spoil it), and (2) because of (1) they can grow tastier varieties rather than varieties that ship well and stay looking fresher longer. Like those awful plastic grocery store tomatoes. But one can always go to the local farmers’ market and get great tomatoes, and no difference in taste between organic and regular ones.
For the record: Imagine what it would be without the bias.
Pictured: NWS MMTS (Maximum/Minimum Temperature Sensor) surface station (one of MANY similarly biased):
It’s worth noting that the NSDIC is reporting that: “MPORTANT NOTICE – DATA OUTAGE: Some images are not being updated by their respective suppliers due to an outage related to the DMSP F17 satellite sensor. “NSIDC has no firm timeline on when it will be able to resume providing the sea ice time series.”
Somehow, they are getting enough data to make this dire report, but not enough for people to check the actual data for accuracy.
Good point: These thousands of similar “terrible” environments - more than 92% are NOT within the standards for mounting 2 meter-high thermometer boxes! - make only the satellite global survey from the University Of Alabama Huntsville (Dr Roy Spencer’s group) the best global average temperature record.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
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