Posted on 09/23/2014 9:04:40 AM PDT by Signalman
IT JUST gets bigger. The extent of the sea ice around Antarctica has hit a record high for the third year running. Counter-intuitively, global warming is responsible.
Since satellite records began in 1979, the winter maximum sea ice cover around Antarctica has been growing at 1.5 per cent per decade. This year has long been on track for a new annual record, with 150 daily records already set.
The record was finally broken on 15 September and sea ice extent has increased since, according to data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center analysed by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology in Hobart.
More sea ice may seem odd in a warmer world, but new records are expected every few years, says Jan Lieser of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart. That's because the southern hemisphere warms more slowly than the north, as it has less landmass, boosting the winds that circle Antarctica and pulling cold air onto the sea ice.
The melting of ice on the Antarctic mainland may also be creating more sea ice, by dumping easily frozen fresh water into the ocean, says Nerilie Abram of the Australian National University in Canberra.
The extra sea ice is a good thing, as it reflects sunlight and slows global warming. But the sea ice is expected to shrink eventually. "By 2100 we will see dramatic reductions," says Lieser.
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I notice they don’t allow comments on their own site. Too bad.
So as it gets hotter in the Northern Hemisphere, ice melts faster in the Southern Hemisphere, which then freezes again making more ice. But in 85 years, it will melt again really fast, making double-plus-ungood things happen in the Northern Hemisphere.
The average high temperature in Antarctica in January, the warmest month of the year, is -18 degrees F, and the average low temperature in January is about -21 degrees F. If the temperature in Antarctica is -18 degrees F, it has to warm to 33 degrees F in order for ice to melt. So anywhere between -18 degrees F and +31 degrees F there will be no melting, regardless of the amount of warming. If it got to +31 degrees F, we would be in trouble, but that will take a lot longer than 85 years to add over 50 degrees to the temperature of Antarctica.
Can these guys set their models to the conditions of 1914, run a 100-year forecast, and have the forecast match what actually happened?
If they can, I'm certain we would have heard it trumpeted from the rooftops.
If not, their models are worthless.
The Southern Winter is June, July and August. Summer is December, January and February. So it's early spring time down there.
You do not pull cold air. It is dense. It goes where it wants to go.
You know I might believe more of this crap, if they predicted this before it happened. When Al Gore won his Nobel, the thesis was more hurricanes will be created by Global Warming (since that was right after Katrina one of the worst hurricane seasons in decades), since then there have been fewer hurricanes than normal, so the new mantra is the storms will be fewer but bigger. Wash, rinse repeat.
I am willing to be a lot of money that “we” and he will not see anything in 2100. That is 86 years from now.
However, I do plan on being around to collect my be from anyone willing to take a chance. At 153 years of age I will probably be pretty cantankerous.
“Global warming” is a phrase that means whatever the libs say it means.
Well, what else could it possibly be?
bullshit bump
Nailed it. It’s part of a tactic to show the level of control over the populace by the Elites. The ability to spout flat-out contradictions to any observable fact, and not be questioned, demonstrates their level of control. Of course where this goes off the rails and results in mass death is when Elites begin to believe their own B.S. and think they have achieved godhood; by stating something, it makes it so.
So, global warming stops global warming...?
..guess so...who’da thunk it...?
...btw...love your tagline...and just to continue the sentiment...
...miserere me, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam...
By 2100? Meh. I won’t care.
If you boil water long enough, it turns into ice. It’s magic like that—just like global warming freezing the joint up.
What can’t global warming do??? It’s almost like magic. Maybe a better word is fantasy.
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