For years we have been told by NASA that the Antarctic Peninsula is the fastest warming place on Earth. But sadly for Al and Jim, over the past decade CRUTEMPv4 shows a decline in temperatures there.
I’m very surprised that NASA didn’t make a press release about this, because all that Hansen cares about is good science.
OT but still for the birds – Republicans refuse to cut NOAA budget except for their web site.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/226233-gop-split-leads-house-to-reject-14-billion-in-spending-cuts?wpisrc=nl_wonk
April 18, 2009.
“Dr Allison said there was not any evidence of significant change in the mass of ice shelves in east Antarctica nor any indication that its ice cap was melting. “The only significant calvings in Antarctica have been in the west,” he said. And he cautioned that calvings of the magnitude seen recently in west Antarctica might not be unusual.
“Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.”
….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.”
http://www.news.com.au/antarctic-ice-is-growing-not-melting-away/story-0-1225700043191
“The largest climate anomaly of the last 1000 years in the Northern Hemisphere was the Little Ice Age (LIA) from 1400–1850 C.E., but little is known about the signature of this event in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. We present temperature data from a 300 m borehole at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide. Results show that WAIS Divide was colder than the last 1000-year average from 1300 to 1800 C.E. The temperature in the time period 1400–1800 C.E. was on average 0.52 ± 0.28°C colder than the last 100-year average. This amplitude is about half of that seen at Greenland Summit (GRIP). This result is consistent with the idea that the LIA was a global event, probably caused by a change in solar and volcanic forcing,…”
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012GL051260.shtml
That is going to hurt Chicken Little!
If you read chilling stars by Svensmark the cosmic ray-cloud theory claims that antarctic temperatures trend opposite to the rest of the globe. So its completely consistent with the recent warming that antarctica actually had a cooling trend. If it actually does warm up, according to the cosmic ray theory that could indicate an overall cooling trend for the globe so Hansen and Gore better be careful what they wish for.