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More Ice Than Ever: Antarctica is playing havoc with the global warming model.
The American Spectator ^ | 2/5/2008 | Patrick J. Michaels

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; charleshapgood; crustaldisplacement; ericrignot; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarmingfraud; globalwarminghoax; newiceage; randflemath; roseflemath
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To: Aristotelian

No mystery here. Congress just passed tougher CAFE standards. Amazing how fast they kicked in.


21 posted on 02/04/2008 11:33:00 PM PST by sphinx
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To: Aristotelian

For the “climate change” cultists, this is easily rectified. They’ll ignore it. This heresy doesn’t fit the narrative.


22 posted on 02/04/2008 11:51:44 PM PST by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: Aristotelian
“Don’t confuse the global warmers with the facts.”

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.

23 posted on 02/05/2008 1:00:48 AM PST by samm1148 (Pennsylvania-They haven't taxed air--yet)
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To: Aristotelian

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...


24 posted on 02/05/2008 1:13:10 AM PST by Irishguy (How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
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To: Irishguy

Bump for later...


25 posted on 02/05/2008 1:50:17 AM PST by JDoutrider (No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
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To: Aristotelian

Optimistic prediction: Senator or Prez. McCain will admit he was wrong before others. (Well, at least before AlGore!)


26 posted on 02/05/2008 2:20:19 AM PST by guitarist
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yep. John McLame’s answer to Global Warming is LESS ECONOMIC FREEDOM.

He is weak.


27 posted on 02/05/2008 2:23:14 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Beowulf; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion

Beam me to Planet Gore !

28 posted on 02/05/2008 2:31:04 AM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: Aristotelian
Don't confuse the global warmers with the facts.

Antarctica is and example of local cooling.

29 posted on 02/05/2008 3:30:21 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Aristotelian
Don't confuse the global warmers with the facts.

Antarctica is and example of local cooling.

30 posted on 02/05/2008 3:30:21 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Aristotelian

bump for use later!!!


31 posted on 02/05/2008 5:14:56 AM PST by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: sphinx
No mystery here. Congress just passed tougher CAFE standards. Amazing how fast they kicked in.

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?????

32 posted on 02/05/2008 7:31:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("It may take another Jimmy Carter to get another Ronald Reagan". Rush Limbaugh Jan. 14, 2008)
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To: Cementjungle
I’m going to start an Ice Offset Trading company. For every $100 you send me to assuage your evil ice-generating ways, I’ll put one ice cube in my wife’s drink.

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?

33 posted on 02/05/2008 7:40:37 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me - I'm a Fredhead!)
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To: Aristotelian

I’m still waiting for someone to convince me that carbon-offset trading is more than just a Ponzi scheme.


34 posted on 02/05/2008 7:43:00 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me - I'm a Fredhead!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Maine is an example of local cooling, a sidearm in the Global Warming War; Antarctica is the howitzer.


35 posted on 02/05/2008 7:47:46 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

As an Arizonan, what would McCain know about seasons? Oh yeah, he’s a Washingtonian, not a Zonie.


36 posted on 02/05/2008 12:49:54 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: Night Hides Not
You might find this interesting:

Farmers cashing in on carbon credits (The Truth behind the Global Warming Scam)

37 posted on 02/05/2008 12:54:40 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: Aristotelian
The image “http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.anom.south.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
38 posted on 02/05/2008 1:01:19 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Thanks for the link...what a bleepin’ racket!


39 posted on 02/05/2008 1:20:19 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me - I'm a Fredhead!)
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40 posted on 02/05/2008 3:05:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Go see Cloverfield. It's good!)
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