Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking

The Australian ^ | April 18, 2009 | Greg Roberts

[george76]

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.

East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".

Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.

A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.

[headstamp 2]

Have no fear, the idiots at EPA will save us by regulating the earth’s climate.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks geo.

• Antarctic Seafloor Core Suggests Earth's Orbital Oscillations
  May Be The Key To What Controlled Ice
• Human tools found in Antarctica
• NASA Map Reveals Clear View of Frozen Continent
• Temperature Trends in Antarctica for past 20 years
• Antarctic Temperatures: 1958-2002
  (Global Warming)
• Antarctica May Contain "Oasis of Life"
• Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Blamed On More Than Climate Change
• Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica
• Antarctic Glaciers Going To Sea At Faster Rate
• Mysterious Meteorites Stymie Scientists
• Scientists find giant marine life in Antarctic sea survey
• Massive Ice Chunk Collapses in Antarctica
• Megaherbs Flourished In Antarctica
• 2008 Surface snowmelt in Antarctica
  40% below the average of the period 1987-2007.
• Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate Antarctic environment
• New Fossils Suggest Ancient Cat-sized Reptiles in Antarctica
• Solstice Sea update
  (Antarctic ice sheet at record HIGH extent!)
• Fossil Suggests Antarctica Much Warmer in Past
• Scientists Debate Moving Polar Bears to Antarctica as Arctic Melts
  (This is not a joke!)
• Deep freeze:
  Aussie scientists to probe hidden Antarctic mountains
• Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn't Exist at All
• Antarctica Warming Numbers WERE MADE UP!!!!
• Ocean cooling follow up with Antarctic warming AND cooling reports
• Obama Sends Biden on 'Special Mission' to Antarctica
• Antarctica not warmer after all
• Climate change's Antarctic ruffle
• That famous consensus
• Climate Scientists Blow Hot and Cold
  [Antarctica Hotter? Antarctica Colder? Blame AGW.]
• Alp-sized peaks found below Antarctic ice
  [Covered by 2.5-mile thick ice]
• Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
• Obama Calls for Limits on Tourism to Antarctica
• Clinton urges Antarctica enviro-guards
• UN sounds warning after Antarctica ice shelf rips
  (UNEP - UN Environment Programm)
• Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking

[NoLibZone]

DNC Media will cover this report as well as they covered Tea Party’s

[dervish]

Please stop confusing the issue with facts