During a cold* year, the US and Canada are a tiny portion of globe – and are irrelevant to climate experts. It is about “global” warming after all, or perhaps just Australian warming.
But mention “global” sea ice area, and the same people insist that Antarctica doesn’t count.
*During warm years, the US is 90% of the planet.
Do you actually care about the facts? Global warming increases the extent of antartic sea ice, due to increased precipatation, increasing divergence and windspeed, and decreased salinity. Oh and melt water from land ice, which by the way is going through the floor: http://www.meltonengineering.com/Rapidly%20increasing%20polar%20ice%20loss%20.jpg
Antarctic sea ice extent has been high because it has been cold.
Steve, how do you restrain yourself with comments like this? I am amazed.
The 2nd coldest temperature *on Earth* ever registered was in the winter of 2013 in Antarctica and the number one was in 2010 (by a fraction of a degree)…
http://nsidc.org/news/images/ColdestPlaceRecords.png
and
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/09/coldest-ever-temperature-recorded-on-earth-found-in-antarctica/
and, for those that still don’t know, when it’s colder more sea ice is formed. 🙂
The sea surface anomalies in the Antarctic basin have been decreasing since 2011, coinciding with the beginning of the present 28+ months straight of positive sea ice extent anomalies in the S. Pole. The ice extent has been increasing in the neighborhood of the Drake Passage due in part to colder ocean temperatures.
Do not forget Drake Passage was a critical element in the current Ice Age.
My Comment on Drake Passage
The IPCC predicted that both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice would be reduced by global warming. This is from the Third Assessment Report (TAR) 2001:
Strange that your “facts” don’t match the IPCC prediction, who can explain it?
1. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because water is melting off the land and hitting the ocean, where it freezes.”
Why it’s stupid:
The ocean water off the coast of Antarctica is colder than the land itself in winter? Ice never melts in Antarctica in the winter. How is it possible for anybody to be this stupid?
2. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of stratification of the Southern Ocean due to global warming. Zhang 2006 says ‘increase in surface air temperature results in an increase in the upper-ocean temperature and a decrease in sea ice growth, leading to a decrease in salt rejection from ice, and a decrease in upper-ocean salinity and density. This enhanced thermohaline stratification tends to suppress convective overturning, leading to a decrease in upward heat transport and an increase in sea ice.’ ”
Why it’s stupid:
The increase in sea ice is caused by a decrease in sea ice? I guess it’s possible for somebody to be as stupid above.
3. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because global warming is increasing rainfall in the Southern Ocean, and rain is fresh water so it freezes.”
Why it’s stupid:
The sea ice is 10 feet thick. To make 10 feet of ice, you need 10 feet of rain, which is impossible, stupid.
4. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of the hole in the ozone layer, making the Antarctic colder.”
Why it’s stupid:
Ozone is very high in elevation, at the top of the atmosphere, and plays more of a role in radiating heat to space than returning it to Earth, so a decrease in ozone would make the South Pole Warmer, not colder.
5. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of the wind. The polar winds from the continent are getting stronger, because of global warming.”
Why it’s stupid:
In 1, we learned that the land was warmer than the sea. Now we find out that the wind coming off the land is colder than the sea. I wonder why all that cold polar wind doesn’t cool the land and stop ice from melting in the winter. Wow, you really ARE stupider than a rock…a very dumb rock.
6. “The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because blah blah blah……..”
Why it’s stupid:
If you need to make up this many reasons for something, you are lying
From the reasons given above I wonder why we don’t see more sea ice every summer, when there really is warming.
Because the ozone hole shrinks in the summer allowing more heat to stratify the fresh water melt into layers which triggers a polar vortex which is so cold it melts the ice.
Going through the floor? Not so much.
Your graph ends in 2009. This paper, dated June 2013, indicates considerably less ice loss and sea level rise. It also explains the shortcomings of your (dated) GRACE graph.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrb.50208/abstract
You can read the entire paper … not just the abstract.
The text under your graph states “We will crass (sic) the barrier island stability threshold about 2012 or 2013.” It is now 2014 … ???
I’m glad you cleared this up…
I still do not get it. Australia is the globe, except when America is, except when either is not warm. But they are when cold is used to prove global warming. Except in odd number years ending in a zero.
That’s as far as I have gotten. 😉
“We are the World” got to number one in Australia which proves we are the Globe. And we demand everyone eat Vegemite on toast for breakfast.
What else can you eat Vegemite on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)
Reblogged this on Quixotes Last Stand.
The West Antarctic peninsula is only 3% of Antarctica, but it’s melting so all of Antarctica is melting.