Antarctica Has Sea Ice Rabbit Ears, a V for Victory or Maybe It's a Peace Sign?…

Leo Geiger says: @ur momisugly January 19, 2014 at 5:58 pm
….It is more complicated than that, but that is the general idea. Pine Island has been thinning continuously for decades. Does that count as observational evidence of warm currents?….
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Yes it is more complicated. It is called a VOLCANO!

Scientists have discovered a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards in Antarctica, evidence of an old eruption by a still active volcano that researchers believe may be contributing to the thinning of Antarctic glacial ice.
Hugh F.J. Corr and David G. Vaughan, two scientists with the British Antarctic Survey, recently published their discovery of the volcanic layer in the journal Nature Geoscience. The discovery is unique according to Dr. Vaughan. He said “This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet.”
The volcano’s heat could possibly be melting and thinning the ice and raising the speed of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica….
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First evidence of under-ice volcanic eruption in Antarctica: …“This eruption occurred close to Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
2011: Giant Undersea Volcanoes Found Off Antarctica: …All told a dozen previously unknown peaks were discovered …Also important is the fact that the still active volcanoes have hydrothermal vents Well I guess there is your warm sea water.

Aussies have always had problems with rabbits!

fenbeagleblog says:
January 19, 2014 at 2:09 pm
It’s a white Rabbit. Now do a white Elephant. There looks like there’s ‘room’.
fenbeagleblog,
Ya got me – big belly laugh!
Mac

Warning: mindless irrelevant long anecdote from a peeved observer.
For the past 3 weeks we’ve had a constant and silly stream of melodrama imagery of fairly prosaic heat waves and the very commonplace (and rather minor) rash of the annual bushfires in Southern inland Australia. And very much, of this very little, has been made in the shock-drama media usual suspects.
In light of the ‘unexpected’ summer ice south of Australia and South America etc., just want to add a little much needed perspective.
As a kid I may have experienced a cooler Spring and Summer, especially January, in north eastern Australia. That is possible for I would not notice if any of those summers as a youngster were unusually cool, if I were not acclimated to normal variability.
I’m in my early 50s and has closely watched the tropical weather closely all my adult life due to several very close encounters with death during a large and slow-moving Cat-4 tropical cyclone called ‘Sheila-Sophie’, 925 millibars (measured) on 15th Feb 1971, in Roebourne WA. That was the equal second-lowest central pressure measured within Australia up to that date, since systematic records began in the late 1850s. Incidentally, the other 925 millibar central pressure was a cyclone that struck just south of Innisfail, in 1918. However, Cyclone Larry also hit Innisfail, in 2006, @ur momisugly 925 hectopascals (millibars)! Al Gore visited Australia right after that storm and directly blamed TC Larry on AGW, but what about the 1918 cyclone Al? Was that one AGW too? It must have been … right mate? … dats jus logikal!
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“This is not a political issue, it’s a moral one – it’s deeply unethical,” he said. Now, Mr Gore has brought the message to Australia, where he says the stakes are extremely high. “In many ways, Australia has more at risk than any other country,” he said. “I would hope that Australia would put more pressure on the US by adopting this global agreement and then the US would feel enormous pressure to change.” He says events like cyclone Larry and other severe storms are a direct result of climate change. “You are the driest of the inhabited continents,” he said. “Your grain growing areas are at risk. “Ocean storms become stronger – you’ve had series of category 5 cyclones. “All of these effects have been predicted and all of them will get worse and worse until we turn the thermostat down.” Mr Gore joined politicians and community leaders at the Australian premiere of the film in Sydney.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-09-10/global-warming-poses-major-threat-to-aust-gore/1260282
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Anyway I took a keen interest in weather after that, and I can say without reservation that this summer is undoubtedly the coolest and most pleasant and surprising summer I’ve ever experienced, in North Queensland.
Despite the routine daily forecasts all this month for max-temps around 33 or 34 degrees, the day temps have hovered around 31 (airport ATIS records verify this) and the humidity has been unusually low for most of the past two months. Regardless of the truth, every night I see a daily ‘recorded’ temps in the media that claim we are having temps of 33 to 34 degree.
This is untrue, the figures being claimed in the media are clearly not accurate, and are being over-reported by as much +3 degrees above what we are actually experiencing. This is the Emperor’s new cloths effect, in effect. If you care about this stuff, take note that the media in Australia are doing this. If you see this occurring where you are, keep data and keep records and notes of it. The time will come when various people will need to explain what they’ve been doing, and having systematic records showing this routine biasing of temp ‘data’ and reporting will be required.
So during the absurdity of these ‘horror’ heat-waves and bushfires amped within the media the Coral sea has remained cool and the air over it and Queensland dry as well (until now), because large highs keep blowing stiff and cooler than normal dry SE trade-winds on to the eastern coastline.
The oddly cooler winds have then been blowing inland across North Queensland, and Northern Territory, then turning south over inland Western Australia, heating up through the resulting large heat trough, and then entering South Australia from the west and back into western Victoria as the ‘Heat Waves’ (the back half of these large Bass Strait to Tasman sea Highs).
It’s all been due to that cyclic flow set up by the large persistent cooler than usual highs in the Tasman that has triggered the heat-wave, which is a normal mechanism for them to develop, it’s just that North Queensland’s coast has been noticeably cooler than normal due to them this year. That flow is also why the lows and cyclones so far have struck northern WA and the western NT.
The steady stream of strong back-building Highs that set up this pattern, which has so far completely blocked the monsoon flow over half of northern Australia, is pulling up cooler and drier air than normal. However, these Highs don’t seem to be sourcing their air from any further south than normal. Which suggest there must be more cooler air and cooler water at lower latitudes, i.e. the antarctic summer must be quite cold, given it is thus slowing or preventing the usual warming of the coral sea and is drying out north Queensland, plus blocking the monsoon’s high humidity flows into QLD near Papua’s southern coastline (thus far).
It will be interesting to see how much longer this pattern lasts, and if the coral sea monsoon remains blocked. So far the cyclones have been central south pacific this year, not even any tropical storm build-ups in the coral sea so far. The BOM’s current 4-day forecast chart shows the sustained pattern I’m talking about, and it is predicted to continue for most of the next week as well (but looks like it could break down soon if the next high weakens and allows a deep layer of humid air to flow in).
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
So that’s what’s driving the heatwaves, an unusual southern ocean coolness has sustained larger highs for longer into summer than normal, which paradoxically produces central Australian heating by blocking the monsoon’s cooling clouds and rain.
But no one wants to tell you the larger picture, as the money and ratings are all in amping the melodramatic and heaping-up spin.
This January will go down in my memory as the coolest I’ve experienced in at least 40 years. I noticed something like this last summer, as well, but it was not as pronounced. Last summer was shorter and cooler, and less humid than normal, and there were zero coral sea cyclones last summer as well, which was very unusual. And despite a warm 2013 winter, the summer cool-down effect on the eastern coast has been much more pronounced, effectively the normal summer has not arrived. And nor has the usual 4 to 6 week build up to the rain. We’re experiencing what are protracted late spring-like conditions but we are now moving toward the final week of January (so can probably expect a sharpish drought to follow).
I’m not complaining though, it’s been great, I saved $$$ as I’ve not used my air-conditioner, which is a first. So I’m not contributing to the subsidising of the massive global reduction of evil carbon-dioxide. Isn’t it marvellous, you pay a tax and the CO2 decreases … it’s so clever!
But what I am getting quite cranky about is the persistent and radical lack of objectivity I see within the BOM’s heat-wave map forecasting. Hey BOM why don’t you tell the whole story within your heat-wave forecast mapping fetish? Why don’t you index and depict the anomalous coolness and associated anomalous low-humidity flow as well? Or would that render the narrative less spun a caricature of AGW-ishness? Come on BOM pull yer socks up! Would it kill you to be objective about forecasting and observations presentation? You used to be able to do that. Maybe you’ve too many supercomputers and modellers and not nearly enough basic honesty these days? Hey, it can happen.
Hope you get well soon.
And ABC, what is it with you, … you … Bodgies!? Congets, you’re actually worse than CNN’s overdosed-melodrama and spin-ism circus. Yes, you can keep mutually patting yourself on the back, but keep in mind, nonsense and BS won’t fool those who actually experience the divergence between melodrama and actual weather conditions. The more you indulge in that, the more peripheral and irrelevant you are. If you think this endears you to the public, assists them, or secures your role and your future and jobs, good luck with that.
doubt it.
Anyway, I dearly wish our summers were this cool, and “feels-like” as pleasant as now, every year … it can happen.

Pat 2:16pm
An international team of scientists says:
“The question of how global warming will change the frequency of extreme El Nino events has challenged scientists for more than 20 year.”
Bullshit comes easy. PLAUSIBLE BULLSHIT is much harder to produce. The struggle in all warmists circles is to produce plausible bullshit. Considering the talent level of the people involved, that it took climate scientists 20 years to develop some plausible bullshit about extreme El Nino events is not unexpected or exceptional.
Eugene WR Gallun

More like middle finger to the departing climate scientists warmist that got ice-pack’ed?

Sorry for the bad formatting above. Everything after ‘”This” is a paper’ was supposed to be outside of blockquotes.

ossqss says: @ur momisugly January 19, 2014 at 8:56 pm
…One good storm and “ice loss in antarctica” is in the news.
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You are thinking Arctic where storms can move ice away from the pole through the straits and into the warm sea.
The Antarctic is configured differently. It is a large land mass with a current that goes round and round it isolating it from warmer waters. Increased wind just piles the ice up so it does not melt in the ‘summer’
Read my post above: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/19/antarctica-has-sea-ice-rabbit-ears-a-v-for-victory-or-maybe-its-a-peace-sign/#comment-1541655
I link to a chapter in a Naval Marine Safety Manual with a very good map of ocean currents.