"Earl Evleth" wrote in message
news:C411A76E.1196CE%evleth@wanadoo.fr...
> On 27/03/08 18:15, in article fsgko6$a90$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu,
> "Ouroboros_Rex"
> wrote:
>
>>> Extract From: More Ice Than Ever In Antarctica
>>>
>>> Patrick J. Michaels
>>
>> ROFLMAO
>>
>> Sorry, no 'it happens' there. As usual, the denialist has nothing.
>
> My reading of the literature indicates a net loss of something like
> 150
> cubic km per year. As in Greenland more snow might be accumulating in
> the center but the total ice is dropping.
You are referring to the 2% of Antarctica known as the Western Peninsula
which is the ONLY part that's warming due to proximity to ocean currents
and wind..
The other 98% of Antarctica is GROWING.
Don't be such an alarmist buddy!
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
"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of
the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the
developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean
temperature of a few tenths of a degree will astound future
generations." Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member
of the National Academy of Sciences
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