Steig tells us that Antarctica is experiencing a fatal meltdown, with sea ice area above normal every day in 2012. The year is finishing with an average excess of more than 8,000 Manhattans of ice.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008
Hold your horses Steve.
Not 1st Jan 2013 yet.
Mind you it would take a meteorite impact to push it negative.
Andy
That’s a very interesting quarterly cycle…
But it is WEST Antarctica that is important. They are FAR different from the rest of Antarctica (sarc).
I agree it’s somewhat difficult to maintain the assertion that Antarctica is warming when the warmest parts of the region (surrounding sea ice) has a long term increase/cooling trend.
Ah, but the key is how FAST is it becoming above normal.
.
.
(About as meaningless a measure as any thing else climate ‘science’ has come up with.)
Do not discount the impact of undersea volcanoes…that’s not a joke. I can assure they warm the water locally. Warm water melts ice and seems to be a factor people leave out when they get anomalous data and outliers. Increased volcanic activity is a factor while it”s going on.
Anyone can see we have an uptrend, but the climate “scientists” will draw a lone through the low points and tell us the sky is falling. What is interesting to me is the increase in divergence…