Happy New Year! Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show
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Daily Express, 25 December 2014
Levi Winchester
THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to a leading global warming expert. In fact, the poles are “much more stable” than climate scientists once predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought. For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures – dangerously raising the Earth’s sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals.
But the uncertainty surrounding climate change and the polar ice caps reached a new level this month when research suggested the ice in the Antarctic is actually growing.
And there could even be evidence to suggest the polar bear population is not under threat.
Ted Maksym, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, conducted a study in which he sent an underwater robot into the depths of the Antarctic sea to measure the ice.
His results contradicted previous assumptions made by scientists and showed that the ice is actually much thicker than has been predicted over the last 20 years.
Dr Benny Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), said this latest research adds further proof to the unpredictability of the supposed effects of global warming.
He said:
“The Antarctic is actually growing and all the evidence in the last few months suggests many assumptions about the poles were wrong. “Global sea ice is at a record high, another key indicator that something is working in the opposite direction of what was predicted.”
He added:
“Most people think the poles are melting… they’re not. This is a huge inconvenience that reality is now catching up with climate alarmists, who were predicting that the poles would be melting fairly soon.”
Separate satellite data released this month showed evidence that at the other end of the globe, the ice in the Arctic sea is also holding up against climate change better than expected.The data from the European Space Agency CryoSat-2 satellite suggests that Arctic sea ice volumes in the autumn of 2014 were above the average set over the last five years, and sharply up on the lows recorded in 2011 and 2012.
According to this research, Arctic sea ice volumes in October and November this year averaged at 10,200 cubic kilometres.
This figure is only slightly down on the 2013 average of 10,900 cubic kilometres, yet massively up on the 2011 low of 4,275 cubic kilometres and the 6,000 cubic kilometres recorded in 2012.
Dr Peiser, who believes the threat of global warming has been overstated by climate scientists, described this occurrence as “some kind of rebound” adding that no-one knows what will continue to happen to the poles.
He added:
“This depends on whether or not we have further warming to come… and this is not certain.
“We do not know what the climate will be in 10, 20 years.”
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george e. smith January 5, 2015 at 12:25 pm
I buy Flood insurance on my house. The gummint in Washington DC says I have to buy it from them. Well my mortgage company does too.
Well my house is on a flood plain; a huge one; the central Valley of California, and on the shoreline of the largest lake west of the Mississippi River. (Tulare Lake).
The reason it’s dry is that the rivers which once flowed into it have been dammed.
My house is on top of a solid rock wall, four feet above the flood plain. The flood plain is all laser leveled. You can flood 100 acres of it, with just one inch of water. But you have to fill the whole valley four feet deep just to get up to the floor of my house.
There isn’t that much water ever lands on California in a whole year.
But what if the dam breaks?
Tulare lake, hasn’t had any water in it for over 40 years.
Well not since 1997.
What about antarctic ice mass?
http://gpwayne.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/antarctica_ice_mass.gif
SimonPL,
Where’d ya get that graph? From a recognized research institute? Or from some alarmist blog?
I noticed on that blog, it says:
A notorious lobby group just launched another scurrilous attack on the 97% consensus on climate change. Why do they waste their time, when proving the lack of consensus should be so easy to do?
They are clearly nuts. Are blogs like that where you’re getting your misinformation? Because for sure, that is a bogus chart.
Here is the source…..hardly a “blog”
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/663
No, just a “Mann Cave”. Guess you missed Sandusky
Well, says you. The direct source of the graph is here:
https://gpwayne.wordpress.com
Dbstealey….
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Of course you think that is the source. You don’t know how to use the Internet.
PS dbstealey
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You of all people should know that a “blog” is not an original source for anything
Original source is as David writes: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/663. So, what about this? For me it looks credible. Or maybe you have another sources of real state of Antarctica?
If it is “for sure” valley girl, you can show us the proof. So far, all we have seen is hot air coming from you trying to melt it.
Socks says:
You don’t know how to use the Internet.
Whatever.
You are still a tiny part of a small minority of true believers. No one agrees with you, but it doesn’t matter, this is religion! It’s your religion.
I’ll go back to not knowing how to use the internet, and you can go back to your belief. But just to let you know, your belief is about as popular as a Jehovah’s Witnesses belief.