“Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over.”
January 3 Antarctic sea ice extent is sixteenth highest since 1979, and up 17% since 1981.
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Extent is well above average since 1978, but two weeks ago Ohio University published this nonsensical propaganda.
“with less sea ice and less sea ice duration, that increases the open ocean, which has a very low albedo. More open ocean allows more absorption of incoming solar radiation, which essentially accelerates global climate change.”
How disappearing Antarctic ice fuels a climate change reaction
Another example of a one-year outlier event that seems to have been only that. There also was the possibility of seismic underwater activity that caused it, but no one wants to look into that and understand why it might have been the cause.
“Incredible and “extreme” are inadequate to describe above average sea ice extent over a 45 year period. If that’s not a cusp then I don’t know what is. Antarctica is clearly doomed. The Antarticadians will have to relocate (the penguins can swim to Tierra del Fuego) and the current Border Czar is concerned that this will create another Migrant Crisis before she can get out of town
Constructing a climate model which excludes all negative feedbacks inevitably results in predictions of doom. Simpletons whose greatest intellectual achievement is copying the Stefan Boltzmann equation from the text book, do not appear to understand the harder to understand hydrodynamics which actually determines the atmosphere temperature distribution. The massive negative feedback of water vapour, by which the atmosphere above water is cooler than above arid deserts is replaced by a ridiculous positive feedback of an enhanced ‘greenhouse effect’. This rubbish actually passes for ‘the science’, nowadays.
After each one of their predictions over four decades failed miserably on every front – temperature, hurricanes, desertification, polar bears, Antarctic ice, Arctic ice, Kilimanjaro, sea level rise, etc. – it is insane that they continue with the same over and over again, and still stand on their anti-scientific claim that ‘the science is settled.’
Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
Gamecock was better off 60 years ago when we didn’t know much about Antarctica. Ignorance was bliss. I can find no reason now to care about Antarctic sea ice. ‘Outrageous!’ and ‘incredible!’ and ‘extreme!’ sounds like an excitable boy. No scientist I know talks that way.
“He’s no scientish but he gits a medal”.
“He’s … The Speed Walker!”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJVBZuxTo1I
I’ve long been irritated by the enviros ramming the idea or ‘reflective ice / heat-absorbing dark water’ down the public’s throat. While there may be a kernel of truth to it (or not? Could an insulating cover of ice keep the water underneath a tic warmer?), the mental image they are trying to create is glistening white marble sidewalks you can walk barefoot on in July, but step off those onto the BLACK asphalt roadway and your feet will be burned. What would be interesting to find out is what amount of heat is actually absorbed by open Arctic ocean water October through April – enviros would have you believe (because beliefs are all they have, not science) that it’s 32°F water raised to 50°F, but I’m wondering if the open water can even eek a single degree out of all that ‘blistering sunlight’ it wouldn’t otherwise get.
“Dangerous and expansive cold pattern jolting the central, eastern half of the United States” https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/blasts-of-arctic-air-with-ties-to-polar-vortex-arrive/1729848
“Bitterly cold air will continue to plague the central and eastern states over the course of the upcoming week, raising concerns for heating demands and frozen pipes.”
There is over half a foot of the “thing of the past” on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, with more on the way. Tuesday night the temperature is supposed to drop below zero. I would like to know how do global warming alarmunists correlate these cold arctic blasts with their hyped-pothesis of global warming.