Temperatures in East Antarctica warmed up to -12C and “scientists are flabbergasted.” They say it couldn’t have happened without global warming.
It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.
Temperatures in East Antarctica are very cold, and the “warm” spot is caused by a high pressure system.
Last winter was the coldest on record in Antarctica
Satellites show no warming in Antarctica over the past forty years.
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Around 1940, temperatures made it up to 0C in the “south polar region.”
“J. Glenn Dyer, who accompanied Byrd as a cartologist on the 1939-41 Antarctic expedition, said that during his stay in the south polar region “we had only three or four days of bright sun shine with the temperature at 30 to 32 degrees above zero.”
24 Mar 1947 – Antarctica Getting Warmer – Trove
Experts predicted 10F warming in Antarctica. There has been none.
Manila Standard – Google News Archive Search
In 2004, Gavin Schmidt reported that temperatures had decreased significantly in Antarctica
Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Shindell and Schmidt 2004
NASA scientists were unhappy that Antarctica was cooling, so they changed their data to turn it into warming.
SVS: Antarctic Heating and Cooling Trends
In 2015 NASA said Antarctica was gaining mass.
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses | NASA
But Bernie Sanders disagrees.
“In Greenland and Antarctica — the Earth’s two largest areas of Ice resting on land — and on new calculations about the ability of glaciers to take up their own meltwater runoff and refreeze it. A study published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science shows that the vast ice sheet of Greenland has actually been growing in the last decade, not diminishing. H. Jay Zwally and his colleagues at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., used a pair of satellites to measure the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet. They said the snow and ice appeared to be accumulating at the rate of about nine inches a year. Another study by Charles Bentley and co-workers at Geophysical and Polar Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison shows that ice and snow are also accumulating in Antarctica.”
25 Dec 1989, Page 84 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com
In 1977, experts said the Ross Ice Shelf was collapsing.
23 Jan 1977, 7 – Independent at Newspapers.com
This has been going on for centuries.
“SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L.A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed. Sir James Ross, who went out on the earliest Antarctic expedition of the nineteenth century, and those who followed him, left clear descriptions of this tremendous ice frontage and its position. It was a cliff 150ft. high and 1000ft. thick. But now it appears to be continuing its century-long process of shrinking; and that process may have been going on for centuries. It might imply, unless it is offset by some increase of ice in another less explored part of the Antarctic, that the climate of the South Pole is changing and becoming warmer. The shrinkage of the Alpine glaciers of Europe is a well-known and care-fully measured fact. “
21 Jul 1932 – A Warmer World. – Trove
Experts say we are all going to have to move to Antarctica
Why Antarctica will soon be the only place to live – literally
Climate change study predicts refugees fleeing into Antarctica – Telegraph
In 1976, at the peak of the ice age scare, there was almost no sea ice around Antarctica.
National Geographic Magazine Archive
But the Washington Post says there are no satellite observations prior to 1979.
Antarctica sea ice concentration hit record low – The Washington Post
