Global warming causing Antarctic ice to expand
The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.
If the behavior of the poles was reversed, the junk climate scientists would blame it on global warming, and would simply come up with a different ad hoc explanation.
Yep! Anything to get their tax….. and move on to the next crisis and pin it on hunans to create a new crisis of doom.
As long as there’s no significant overall change in sea-ice volume, their rising sea-levels argument falls flat. I’m sure some alarmist morons will still attempt to deny that.
I’m not an alarmist, but sea-ice volume has a negligible impact on sea levels…as close to zero as you can get. Archimedes principle and all that…
-Scott
Two clues: “Scientists say…” and “Experts say…”
Who exactly says it? What are your citations? Why aren’t you naming names?
Weasel words. It gives them authority to show something as fact, even when it isn’t.
I think it’s pretty obvious now that we have to blame excessive Antarctic ice on Big Al’s visit earlier this year. What else could it be?
Just read this comment in the Guardian.
I am terrified of the future but what terrifies me the most is the inexorable growth in Antarctic sea ice. If the upward trend continues to grow as fast as it has in the past it will overwhelm all of Chile and half of Argentina by the middle of the century. Argentina is a vast food basket and Chile produces some very good wines. Next will be Southern Australia and Southern Africa not to mention the poor inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha. It is going to be brutal you aint seen nothing yet.
Why aren’t we hearing more about the upward spiral of Antarctic ICE in the news it is really deplorable does nobody care about the inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere.
Wait, what? First, AGW caused the Arctic to melt. Now it’s causing the Antarctic to grow? I thought warming was, oh, I don’t know, melting?
These people really expect us to believe them, don’t they?
The incredible thing is people with PHD s make these ridiculous inane statements and other people with PHD s believe them !
Or are they all simply incompetent liars ?
Who knows, training by like minded mindset and can’t or won’t think for them selves, afraid to speak out for funding cuts if they do???????
It’s a rainy, cold and windy day down here in New Zealand – in the same hemisphere as Antartctica.
Its so cold I must have shivered and typed an extra t. LOL.
Seriously though, one of the ‘global’ differences between the northern and southern hemisphere is the quantity of particulate pollution being created in each half.
I’d like to offer a comment on particulate pollution to see whether this point is valid.
While airborne particulates and aerosols are generally thought to cause a cooling. However, with China, US and EU all in the northern hemisphere, especially China burning more an more coal, atmospheric levels of particulate carbon should be higher in the northern hemisphere. I took a look at some National Geographic photos that WUWT had links to: of soot black lakes in Greenland. Horrible, ugly photos. This black soot stuff must change the albedo from that of shiny white ice to become a magnet for IR, causing extra warming.
But in the southern hemisphere where there’s fewer people particulate pollution should be much lower. The only photos I’ve ever seen with regard to Antarctica are white.
Maybe ‘carbon pollution’ is one of the factors leading to diminishing ice levels at the artctic. But of course I mean BLACK carbon, not the pure clear gas carbon dioxide.
It must be the same for the halocarbons then and that’s why the antacrtic ozone hole is soooooo big because of you in the southern hemisphere. Is that what your correlation equals causation means here?
I guess that’s an interesting twist. As there’s likely more halocarbons in the northern hemisphere, more people and industry up there, I guess we should expect the ozone hole to be in the northern hemisphere. So as that doesn’t line up with observation, the hole is down here in the south, perhaps it is something else that makes to ozone hole get bigger – and smaller from time to time. Ie: not halocarbons.
That’s Me point! 😆
I found the link to the photos I mentioned above, in case anybody wants to see what I mean.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/melt-zone/balog-photography