No, the Antarctic's ice is not melting as fast as predicted : No matter how many predictions on climate change are 100% wrong, the talking points and destructive policies remain the same

American Thinker ^ | 01/18/2023 | Jack Hellner

[SeekAndFind]

Greenie leftists for years have been saying the Antarctic is melting.

Well, based on this latest news from AFP, the Antarctic ice is not melting as fast as predicted. 

Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not 'inevitable': study

Both the North and South pole regions have warmed by roughly three degrees Celsius compared to late 19th-century levels, nearly three times the global average.

The global temperature has risen less than two degrees Fahrenheit in the last 150 years. 

There is no scientific data that show that this small rise is caused by:

• An exponential rise in coal and oil use. 
• An exponential rise in gas-powered cars, machinery, trucks, and planes. 
• An extra six million people breathing out CO2.
• Cows producing methane gas.
• Gas grills and furnaces. 
• Power plants that greatly improve our quality and length of life. 

The rise occurred because a 400-year-plus "little ice age" ended around 1860.

A small rise in temperature occurs cyclically and naturally after ice ages happen.

The ice is melting more slowly than predicted not because:

• Politicians and bureaucrats signed the Paris Climate accord. 
• The U.N. has had multiple gabfests where a huge number of politicians and rich people fly in private jets to discuss climate change. 
• Worthless pieces of paper called carbon credits are bought and sold. 
• Solar panels and wind turbines taking up huge pieces of land. 
• People are being forced to buy expensive, impractical, inefficient vehicles powered by a flammable pollutant. 

[shotgun]

I’m going to start a cypto-carbon credit program. Similar to Bitcoin except a person will be mining for bullshit reports and claims from the media, Hollywood actor /activists, and politicians. The more crap they spew, the more they will have to pay in real dollars. This will be converted to Crypto-Carbon Credits to feed the homeless, impoverished, incompetent, incoherent, triggered, offended, and oppressed people of the world.

Anyone out there want to invest?

[rlmorel]

Volcanic eruptions amaze me. I lived in the Philippines near Pinatubo (Subic Bay) and my family visited Pompeii when my father got orders back to the States.

In Pompeii, I remember looking at the casts they made of people's bodies who were buried by Vesuvius. It was a strange sensation.

Then, when NOVA made that great episode "In The Path of A Killer Volcano" about Pinatubo, the scene that really stuck out at me was the guys at Clark AFB who had a video recorder, running out to jump in their car.

The video recorder was recording as they ran, but they weren't aiming it at anything...it was just bouncing up and down randomly showing the pavement and grass.

But you could here the panicked heavy footfalls as they ran, and their labored breathing. When they got to their car their doors were locked.

The camera was still pointing at the ground, and the sound that stuck out was someone saying "Come on...come on!" or something like that, and the sound of the car door handle being frantically and rapidly jiggled up and down as the person waited for the car to be unlocked.

Then, the person with the camera panned it towards the volcano, and all you saw was a solid, vertical wall of ash seemingly a flat wall, going straight up, and boiling like the gasses of Hell.

I don't know if my memory of seeing that some decades ago is accurate, but that is how I remembered it.

I have been fascinated by the intersection of human civilization and volcanic activity, and have zero desire to ever be in the vicinity of one.

These graphics below illustrate the points you made in your post: (note that the graphics are from different sources, and convey different volcanic metrics, but...you can get the idea)

I also found it interesting, that Tambora, the one that had perhaps the most worldwide effect in modern history, was not regarded as very explosive, but it threw enough particulate matter into the air to cause that famous year without a summer, and crop failures all over the world.

Also, of the most significant ones in terms of explosive activity, three of them happened in the United States in the Western part of the country.

Yes. It is our puny cars and methane from animals causing "climate change".

[rlmorel]

I found the Krakatoa Eruption to be particularly interesting due to it happening right at the point where nearly instantaneous world-wide communication first became possible due to undersea telegraph cables. Plus, during the Victorian era, the recording of natural phenomena was a fashionable thing all over the world, so there were measurements being done in real time as the effect of the Krakatoa explosion rolled around the world.

People in various countries had barometers, and the change in air pressure as the wave traveled in real time was visible on the saved recordings.

[NorthMountain]

Thank you. I just learned something; I never heard of “Novarupta” before.

[rlmorel]

It was new to me too. It sounds terrifying. Check out this website:

LINK TO GEOLOGY.COM: Novarupta-The Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption of the 20th Century

[Tymesup]

Wouldn’t Tonga have lowered the global temperature?

If there are lots of active volcanoes, and only a small number are erupting at a time, what determines which ones erupt? Could rising global temperatures lead to more eruptions? Which would lower global temperatures? Wouldn’t a temperature equilibrium result?