"Ouroboros_Rex" wrote in message
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> "Tunderbar" wrote in message
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> On Mar 26, 10:57 am, Roger Coppock wrote:
>> Huge Chunk Of Antarctic Ice Collapses
>> Global Warming Blamed For Ice Shelf Collapse That Puts Larger Area At
>> Risk
>> Please see:
>> ttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/tech/main3968165.shtml
>
> It's the end of summer in the southern hemisphere. It happens.
> Cite please.
ROTFLMAO.
Read the rest of the article and you will read the following ...
QUOTE: "Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even
cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes
the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. "
ALSO:
A New Record for Antarctic Total Ice Extent
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_new_record_for_antartic_total_ice_extent
While the news focus has been on the lowest ice extent since satellite
monitoring began in 1979 for the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere
(Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since
1979.
This can be seen on this graphic from this University of Illinois site
The Cryosphere Today, which updated snow and ice extent for both
hemispheres daily. The Southern Hemispheric areal coverage is the
highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and
2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice
extent.
While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice
near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior
of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive
and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This
dichotomy was shown in this World Climate Report blog posted recently
with a similar tale told in this paper by Ohio State Researcher David
Bromwich, who agreed "It's hard to see a global warming signal from the
mainland of Antarctica right now".
Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter
(June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the
coldest year was 2004.
This winter has been an especially harsh one in the Southern Hemisphere
with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa.
We will have recap on this hard winter shortly. See full story here.
Posted on 09/11 at 07:44 PM
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
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