Question:
10 years ago the lib****s were claiming that Global Warming was melting Antarctic sea ice so fast that coastal cities would flood by 2100?
2014-07-07 06:03:49 UTC
and now they are claiming that global warming is causing the record breaking Antarctic sea ice extent and mass to grow? Are these lib****s seriously thinking we're going to believe that? Will the next crisis the lib****s spew going to be is that global warming is causing so much ice to form in Antarctica that sea levels are going to drop by 20 feet by the year 2100 and cause massive environmental disasters worldwide and the only way to stop is is to pass some carbon tax?

http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/sea-ice-update-july-5-2014-antarctica-smashes-old-record-by-400000-sq-km/
Nine answers:
2014-07-07 06:19:33 UTC
lib****s are great race of people
Strega
2014-07-07 06:18:57 UTC
I know you don't care and that you think you made some monumental point but here's an explanation for you.



Antarctica is a continent with 98% of the land covered by ice, and is surrounded by ocean that has much of its surface covered by seasonal sea ice. Reporting on Antarctic ice often fails to recognise the fundamental difference between sea ice and land ice. Antarctic land ice is the ice which has accumulated over thousands of years on the Antarctica landmass through snowfall. This land ice therefore is actually stored ocean water that once evaporated and then fell as precipitation on the land. Antarctic sea ice is entirely different as it is ice which forms in salt water during the winter and almost entirely melts again in the summer.



Importantly, when land ice melts and flows into the oceans global sea levels rise on average; when sea ice melts sea levels do not change measurably but other parts of the climate system are affected, like increased absorbtion of solar energy by the darker oceans.



Antarctic sea ice has shown long term growth since satellites began measurements in 1979. This is an observation that has been often cited as proof against global warming. However, rarely is the question raised: why is Antarctic sea ice increasing? The implicit assumption is it must be cooling around Antarctica. This is decidedly not the case. In fact, the Southern Ocean has been warming faster than the rest of the world's oceans. Globally from 1955 to 1995, oceans have been warming at 0.1°C per decade. In contrast, the Southern Ocean has been warming at 0.17°C per decade. Not only is the Southern Ocean warming, it is warming faster than the global trend.



In summary, Antarctic sea ice is a complex and unique phenomenon. The simplistic interpretation that it must be cooling around Antarctica is decidedly not the case. Warming is happening - how it affects specific regions is complicated.





I encourage you to learn the difference between sea ice and land ice and the many different ways our climate is changing.
?
2014-07-07 06:15:03 UTC
It's a consensus, don't you know?
tehabwa
2014-07-07 06:14:44 UTC
It's not liberals, but SCIENTISTS who have determined that human activity has been warming the Earth. The fact that conservatives reject science isn't a criticism of liberals.



What is your source? I see you can give no source from a RELIABLE site. People who aren't morons realize that now is WINTER in the southern hemisphere, and that all data is variable. That variability doesn't mean there are no overall trends.



YOU may deny what is clearly happening -- a warming of the average temperature of Earth, increase in extreme weather events, deserts growing, migratory patterns changing, sea levels rising. That doesn't make reality vanish or conform to your delusions.



Those who have functioning brains listen to what scientists actually say. For instance, that in some years more of the excess heat is in the oceans, in other years it's in the atmosphere -- creating blips and variability.



Why do I bother? You clearly aren't interested in trivial things like FACT, and TRUTH.



No honest person who has any grasp of reality denies that global warming is happening.
2014-07-07 06:07:04 UTC
Too bad, you lack the acumen to understand scientific principles. What do you want us to say, exactly?
webfoot
2014-07-07 06:06:28 UTC
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2014-07-07 06:06:18 UTC
It's Arctic sea ice, but then again, what are facts, when you try to make a point??
EIEIO
2014-07-07 06:05:37 UTC
The water from the melted ice is almost up to my keyboard. I expect to be electrocuted any day now....
?
2014-07-07 06:05:31 UTC
The Global Warming Fraud was a political scam all along cooked up by Liberals/Progressives/Communists around the globe. They invented a scheme where they would tax hundreds of billions of dollars and impose countless rules/laws/penalties and restrictions on personal freedom.



The Billions in fines and taxes were to fund their continued and forever grip on the world and create a communist utopia but the only problem is it was all a LIE from the beginning. Cooked numbers, intimidation of true climate researchers and propaganda world wide.



The rank and file Global Warming Nutters really believed their lies but the top tiers of the scam like Al Gore knew full well that it was all a scam. This border invasion is all part of the overall worldwide takeover by leftists and the creation of a new leftist world order. They are speeding up their progress because they see their plan unravelling.



In reality the earth has been cooling for the past 17 years and is projected to keep cooling for another 35 years. When the earth cools crops will fail and millions will starve. We should all pray for global warming.


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