Andrew Bolt writes:
IT’S snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever.
And that’s just the news of the past week. Truly, it never rains but it pours – and all over our global warming alarmists.
Time’s up for this absurd scaremongering. The fears are being contradicted by the facts, and more so by the week.
10 Top Myths about global warming
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I’m going to be as nice as I can as a response to this.
First of all, you have to look at what type of ice is growing in the Antarctic. Have you heard of “Pancake Ice”. No?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_ice
In the southern hemisphere winter, when emperor penguins huddle together against the cold, ice on the sea around Antarctica has been increasing since the late 1970s, perhaps because climate change means shifts in winds, sea currents, or snowfall.
At the other end of the planet, Arctic sea ice is now close to matching a September 2007 record low at the end of the northern summer. That trend is a threat to the hunting lifestyles of indigenous peoples and creatures such as polar bears.
“The Antarctic wintertime ice extent increased . . . at a rate of 0.6 percent per decade” from 1979 to 2006, said Donald Cavalieri, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
At 7.3 million square miles, the ice accumulation is still slightly below the record level of the early 1970s, he said. The average year-round level has risen, too.
Some global warming skeptics point to the differing trends at the poles as a sign that worries about climate change are exaggerated. However, scientists say they can explain the development.
“What’s happening is not unexpected. . . . Climate modelers predicted a long time ago that the Arctic would warm fastest and the Antarctic would be stable for a long time,” said Ted Maksym, a sea ice specialist at the British Antarctic Survey.
Quoted from
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/09/13/ice_expanse_growing_in_antarctica_as_arctic_gets_warmer/
So while I enjoyed your link to prove a point, the fact is that an immediate result “Hey, ice is growing!” does that = There’s no global warming.
michaelsimon,
Antarctic temperatures are not “stable.” They are declining. And if you take the data massage out of ground-level measurements, global temperature is hardly increasing, either. Relative to thirty years ago satellite measurements of the lower atmosphere (where we live) show no net warming.
If you look at sea ice extent on a global basis (tracked by the Polar Research Group at the University of Illinois), there is no alarming decline over a thirty year period.
The data just keeps getting tougher and tougher on the global warming alarmists. Sucks to be them.
Why do Liberals continue to perpetuate the myths of:
-Global Warming
-Evolution
-Cigarettes causing lung cancer
-Oil being a non-renewable resource
-Claiming Saddam Hussein didn’t have WMD’s and wasn’t connected to 9/11
All of those are myths. Why do Libs continue to lie about it?