Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/04/2008 9:12:29 PM PST by Aristotelian
The Washington Post recently ran a shocking above-the-fold article warning us of "Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica." A new paper by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a net loss of ice where most scientists thought the opposite would occur.
The Post went full-bore with this one, spreading the article on to an entire interior page. The piece ends by noting that Rajenda Pachauri, head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is so concerned that he's is personally going down to inspect the situation.
He should. Before he even gets to Antarctica, Pachauri is going to see something even more surprising than Rignot's finding. Despite a warming Southern Ocean, the amount of ice surrounding Antarctica is now at the highest level ever measured for this time of the year, since satellites first began to monitor it almost thirty years ago. This represents a continuation of the record set last winter (our summer).
Thanks to the miracles of modern technology, we can also look at the departure from the average for ice mass in a given month. At present, the coverage of ice surrounding Antarctica is almost exactly two million square miles above where it is historically supposed to be at this time of year. It's farther above normal than it has ever been for any month in climatologic records. Around now, because it's summer down there and the ice is headed towards its annual low point, there should be about seven million square miles of it. That means, as data in University of Illinois' web publication Cryosphere Today shows, that there is nearly 30% more ice down in Antarctica than usual for this time of the year.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
No mystery here. Congress just passed tougher CAFE standards. Amazing how fast they kicked in.
For the “climate change” cultists, this is easily rectified. They’ll ignore it. This heresy doesn’t fit the narrative.
You really can’t. If you want to see an example of people who’ve bought lock, stock and barrel into a cult the global warming crowd is it.
They can’t explain global warming in their own words. It is always regurgitation of a website of some “scientist”. When the “scientist” is showed to be a paid environmental hack it doesn’t dissuade these people.
They’ll just ignore any factual data you present. For me it all comes down to one thing: They can’t predict the weather two weeks from now so they can’t predict it fifty years from now. Weather is the major determinant of climate so the argument of weather being different from climate is axed.
But it doesn’t matter. These people will continue on with these childish fantasies because they believe that a screwy light bulb can affect the gross energy of three billion plus cubic miles of atmosphere.
priceless...absolutely priceless...
no doubt they will spin this as proof of climate change...
i cannot remember recently which anti global warming scientist said we were actually about to hit a cooling period (natural one) and that all this hype was unfounded...looks like he might be right...
Bump for later...
Optimistic prediction: Senator or Prez. McCain will admit he was wrong before others. (Well, at least before AlGore!)
Yep. John McLame’s answer to Global Warming is LESS ECONOMIC FREEDOM.
He is weak.
Antarctica is and example of local cooling.
Antarctica is and example of local cooling.
bump for use later!!!
No it's not, it is gravity pulling all the ice downhill from the North Pole to the South Pole. < /sarc>
Did I really need a the < /sarc> tag?????
I'll give you some competition, with advertising that says: for every $90 you send me, a $10 savings vs. the Cementjungle Ice Offset Trading Company, I'll put two ice cubes in Cementjungle's wife's drink.
Isn't capitalism marvelous?
I’m still waiting for someone to convince me that carbon-offset trading is more than just a Ponzi scheme.
Maine is an example of local cooling, a sidearm in the Global Warming War; Antarctica is the howitzer.
As an Arizonan, what would McCain know about seasons? Oh yeah, he’s a Washingtonian, not a Zonie.
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