Sunday, 2 May 2004
Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week. Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.
January 4, 2008
IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday.
“Perhaps we should call it our new climate,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate analysis, David Jones.
January 19, 2009
...if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.
–John Holdren, Obama’s science adviser
Ho hum, yawn. From April 18 2009.
“RUSSIAN sea captain Dimitri Zinchenko has been steering ships through the pack ice of Antarctica for three decades and is waiting to see evidence of the global warming about which he has heard so much.
Zinchenko’s vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.
Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton’s base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. “I see just more and more ice, not less ice.”
Rodney Russ, whose New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions has operated tourist expeditions to Antarctica for 20 years, agrees. He says ships regularly used to able to reach the US base of McMurdo in summer, but ice has prevented them from doing so for several years.
“Vessels are usually stopped 8km to 14km short of the base. A few years ago, that was often open water,” Russ says.
“We have experienced quite severe ice conditions over the past decade. I have seen nothing in this region to suggest global warming is having an effect.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/change-is-a-cold-certainty/story-e6frg6xf-1225699977739
Fuck yeah, Russians are awesome.
I would be embarrassed to be English if it was not for the Ozzies and Yanks!
At least King had the useless Slingo woman to blame.
John Holdren is Obama’s chief “science” guy. O’s “Science” Czar, yes, the quotes are an official part of his title. Even after word got out of the crazy nuts nature of Holdren, O has kept him as his czar.
“Eric Simpson says:
May 18, 2012 at 9:42 pm
John Holdren is Obama’s chief “science” guy. O’s “Science” Czar, yes, the quotes are an official part of his title. Even after word got out of the crazy nuts nature of Holdren, O has kept him as his czar.”
All the extra sea ice in the Antarctic must be due to this Holdren claim in the 1970s.
Billion people dying of CO2 induced famine in the coming ice age. 🙂